Your Path to Becoming an Elklan Tutor
Your Path to Becoming an Elklan Tutor
Maximise Your Impact on Children’s Communication
Communication is fundamental to every child's future. Elklan strives to ensure that every adult in a child’s network can support their speech, language and communication development. The key to reaching more children is our renowned network of Elklan Tutors. Our tutors train teachers, teaching and learning support assistants, early years practitioners, parents and carers to build children's speech, language and communication skills.
By becoming an Elklan Tutor, your hard work will have a greater impact by improving the communication skills of more children, creating better support and brighter futures for all.
Our Training Model Explained
Becoming a Tutor starts with Elklan's Total Training Pack (TTP). Designed for busy professionals, our TTP course spans just four afternoons, plus some preparation, and is fully online. If you're a Speech and Language Therapist, Educational Psychologist, or Specialist Advisory Teacher operating across multiple settings, you are eligible to become an Elklan Tutor. Once you've completed your TTP, you will be licensed to deliver our courses, either face-to-face or online.
Included in the TTP:
- Training from Elklan’s experienced team
- Licence to deliver Elklan’s accredited speech and language support courses
- Teaching resources include: a tutor manual and copy of language builders, access to e-learning sessions, course PowerPoints, videos and resources
- Full use of Elklan’s learning management system
- Full support of the Elklan team
Complete one of the following TTPs for the course you would like to deliver. To deliver additional courses, all you need to do is purchase the teaching manual from the Elklan shop*.
Find more information and apply now:
* Tutors wishing to deliver one of the following courses must attend a further Training Pack:
- Communication Friendly Settings / Communication Friendly Special Settings
- Supporting Social, Emotional and Mental Health of Children and Young People
- Supporting Gestalt Language Processing - a Total Communication Approach
How to become an Elklan AAC Tutor
We offer a Specialist Training Pack (STP), with training from highly-specialist SaLT Andrea Lee to become an Elklan AAC Tutor. This will enable you to deliver our accredited AAC course.
How to become an Elklan SEMH Tutor
If you have completed one of our Total Training Packs and have a full Elklan Tutor licence, you can train to deliver our course Supporting Social, Emotional and Mental Health of Children and Young People.
How to become an Elklan GLP Tutor
If you have completed one of our Total Training Packs and have a full Elklan Tutor licence, you can train to deliver our new course Supporting Gestalt Language Processing - a Total Communication Approach. Additional criteria also applies, see the GLP TP page for details.
Beyond the Classroom: Empowering Parents with Let’s Talk
Elklan has courses for parents too. These courses are called Let’s Talk. Full Elklan Tutors can deliver all our parent courses without further training.
Full Elklan Tutors can also deliver Let’s Talk Training Packs (LTTP) to practitioners. Those who have completed a Speech and Language Support course at Level 3 can attend an LTTP to become Let’s Talk Tutors and deliver Elklan courses to parents and carers
Teachers, TAs, and education practitioners can deliver Let‘s Talk courses to parents taking the impact of their work to the next level and into the home. To become Let’s Talk Tutors, practitioners complete the relevant Speech and Language Support course at Level 3 and then an LTTP.
Training education staff and parents ensures seamless, round-the-clock support for children's communication at school and home, which is especially vital for those with SLCN.
How to deliver courses to parents
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Practitioner completes SLS course
at Level 3
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Join a corresponding LTTP
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Support Parents
Included in the LTTP:
- Training from Elklan’s experienced team
- Licence to deliver corresponding Elklan Let's Talk course
- Let's Talk teaching resources including a Tutor Manual and a copy of the Let’s Talk workbook
- Full support of the Elklan Team