RISE NI (Regional Integrated Support for Education) provides a service to children within the Northern Trust area. Our aim is to help children enjoy, achieve and learn to the best of their ability in school.
The service offers support to SENCOs, teachers, and assistants, as well as directly to children and their parents / carers. Our work is focused within Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1.
Our team is made up of a number of professionals to help young people, they include; Behaviour Therapists, Clinical Psychologist, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Therapy Assistants and administrative staff.
Our service takes a holistic approach to a child’s:
Social, emotional and/or behavioural development
Speech, language and communication development
Sensory processing, fine motor and visual perceptual development
Gross motor development
Referrals – Children can only be referred to the RISE NI NHSCT service by school staff.
The RISE NI Parent Website
https://view.pagetiger.com/RISENI/parents
is for the parents and carers of children in mainstream nurseries and primary schools (up to P4).
It promotes development of:
speech, language and communication skills
sensory processing, fine motor and visual perceptual skills
gross motor skills
social and emotional skills
The website contains information leaflets, suggested activities / resources and parent training videos developed by clinical psychologists, behaviour therapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and physiotherapists.
There is also information on
RISE NI
(at
www.northerntrust.hscni.net)