Our services
SEND Consultancy
Catering for children and families affected by a vast range of additional needs including autism, attachment disorder, sensory processing disorders, global developmental delay and behavioural difficulties as well as those with complex and multiple diagnoses; and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Naomi’s Garden Educational Consultancy Service offers a wealth of first-hand experience working with children with these or other learning difficulties. Operating through the lens of sensory impairments, our Special Educational Needs (SEN) teacher specialises in addressing challenges to behaviour, attention and cognitive ability, through scrutiny of children’s unique sensory processing capabilities and need.
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Personal profile
Vanessa Toyne
Vanessa Toyne, M.A. in Education, is a SEN Teacher with extensive experience of working with children who fall outside of the conventional patterns of learning; educationally, behaviourally or socially. Demonstrating a passion for these learners and always working to identify and support their unique specialist needs, she adopts a different teaching approach, by looking through the lens of sensory impairments.
“If we considered educational wellbeing and academic progress in a holistic way, we would not overlook the importance of enabling a healthy sensory system for all children.”
Previous experience
- Teaching across all year groups within special school settings
- Teaching pupils with moderate, severe and physical learning difficulties
- Delivering CPD to colleagues on the subjects of autism and sensory processing disorders
- Creating bespoke teaching resources and Programmes of Study to meet individual need
- Developing a successful Nurture Classroom within a mainstream setting
- Working as a researcher and enquirer to solve often complex and challenging problems in a creative and analytical way
Specialist support
How we work with families and schools.
Parents’ Forum
Having a child with additional needs can be challenging and a lonely place within a family and/or community. Naomi’s Garden Parents’ Forum recognises the need for support networks to be established and maintained for parents, throughout a child’s life into adulthood.
Find out more →Family Liaison and Educational Welfare
The Family Liaison and Educational Welfare service works from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint gathering information from parents, the child, school and outside agencies, such as the speech and language service, and offers families the opportunity to address challenging issues related to education, behaviour, social relationships, mental health and well-being within a school setting or at home.
Find out more →School Intervention Advisory
Naomi’s Garden School Intervention Advisory Service offers schools the opportunity to work with our experienced Special Educational Needs (SEN) Teacher, in an advisory capacity, through pupil observations and a support strategy report or in a teaching capacity, one to one or small group work.
Find out more →“If asked which teacher made the greatest positive impact on our daughter’s learning, we would say unreservedly ‘Vanessa’! Our daughter began reading and made more accelerated progress than at any other time.”
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