Lámh

Information and Support

Service providers may be at quite different stages when it comes to their experience of Lámh.

Some services may have been using Lámh since its introduction in the early 1980s and may have run many family and staff courses over the years.  Some services may have trained Lámh Tutors on their staff team, while other services may not have any experience of Lámh use at all.  New service users who are also Lámh users may have joined the service, or perhaps there are children or adults attending who require Lámh Assessments.

For example, a mainstream school may have new pupils enroling who are Lámh users and this school may need information leaflets to circulate and perhaps training for key staff to begin with.  A day service may have want to train a large group of staff members in Module One while another service may be looking at training some of their staff members as Lámh Tutors.

The Lámh Development Office can provide information and support for services at all stages.

The Lámh Development Office can provide:

Information:

• Leaflets:  'What is Lámh?', 'Information for Parents and Carers', 'Lámh Training' and 'Information on Lámh for Families of Young Children with Down syndrome' 
• An Information Pack for Speech and Language Therapists
• A Factsheets for Schools
• Factsheets on Tutor Training, Lámh, etc.
• Copies of the recent Lámh Newsletter

Support around accessing training:

• General information on how Lámh Training is organised and accessed
• Information on Lámh Tutor Training
• Contract Training for services that don't have a Tutor
• Information on Lámh Training around Ireland
• Occasionally Tutors in other services will have extra places available on their courses.  Names of those interested can be listed in the Development Office. 

Other:

• Research and articles on manual sign and AAC
• Phone number of the Lámh Development Office, to contact for more in-depth information/discussion on training needs 
• Support for Lámh Tutors