Educational Psychology & Assessment Service (EPAS)
Children and Student Services
About EPAS
EPAS supports children and young people who have difficulties
with learning or behaviour or both.
EPAS is staffed by educational psychologists who, in addition to teaching experience,
have first degrees and postgraduate, professional qualifications in psychology
– the science of how people think, feel and behave. Also part of the service
are assessment teachers who have developed expertise in the area of special needs
of children who go to mainstream school.
Psychologists and assessment teachers work with children and young people,
parents and teachers to gather information in order to advise on strategies and
plan programmes to help children make progress.
EPAS also provides training for teachers in meeting special educational needs
and advice for education officers and head teachers on planning for groups of
children, developing new approaches to help children learn.
If it is necessary for the LEA to carry out a statutory assessment under the
1996 Education Act, the educational psychologist will visit the home to see the
child and talk to the parents.
Contact with EPAS about pre-school children is usually made through the child’s
pre-school setting, doctor or health visitor.
Contact about school-age children should always be made though the school.
General enquiries: psychology.els@bexley.gov.uk
Further Information
For further information about services
provided by EPAS click on the appropriate link.
(All documents are PDFs - see
our Help page for more information. They
should not take more than three minutes to download over a normal modem connection)
 EPAS – general
information (60KB)
Educational
Psychologists (64KB)
PACTS (Parents of Autistic Children Training and Support) (56KB)
365
Project (63KB)
Children
who cannot face school (811KB)
School
Panic - How to be cool at school (531KB)
SALSA
- A service guide for schools (64KB)
Information Booklets to Order
Bexley Council's series of Booklets have been prepared by specialist
teachers and educational psychologists in consultation with partners from schools,
other agencies and voluntary groups. They are designed to provide practical,
accessible advice and support to teachers, although parents also find them helpful.
ADHD
(currently out of print)
|
Asperger
Syndrome
|
Hearing
Impairment
|
Bullying
|
Visual
Impairment
|
Dyspraxia & Developmental
Coordination Difficulties
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Epilepsy
|
Children Who
Cannot Face School
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Copies may be purchased from Children and Young People's Services in the Education
Department via the address below, using the following order form:
SEN Guidelines for Schools - Order Form (92KB PDF file)
The prices of the booklets are as follows:
Title |
Cost
|
ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) - currently out of
print
|
-
|
Asperger Syndrome |
£3.00
|
Hearing Impairment |
£3.00
|
Bullying |
£3.00
|
Visual Impairment |
£3.00
|
Dyspraxia & Developmental
Coordination Difficulties
|
£3.00
|
Epilepsy |
£3.00
|
Children Who
Cannot Face School
|
£3.00
|
*Postage and Packing [not required from Bexley Schools]:
Up to 2 books ... £0.50 |
11-15 books ... £2.00 |
3 - 5 books ... £1.00 |
16 – 20 books ... £2.50 |
6 –10 books ... £1.50 |
20 –30 books ... £.3.50 |
Cheques should be made payable to "Bexley Council".
Please send orders to: EPAS, Bexley Council, Hill View, Hill
View Drive, Welling, Kent DA16 3RY
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