Transcript Special Education Needs

Special Education
Needs
Shaaira Alexis
Education Consultant
Researcher
Special Education Needs
(SEN) Policies
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What is SEN?
How is it classified?
Who are SEN?
Rules, Laws and Policies
Working with SEN in the British
classroom
• IEPs
What is SEN?
• A learner with SEN is someone who
has been identified as having
difficulties conventionalizing and
internalizing information in different
spheres of communication
Identifying SEN
• Significant greater difficulty in
learning than the majority of other
children in the same age group
• Have a disability which prevents
them from making use of educational
facilities
(computer)
Categories of learning
difficulties
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Specific Learning disability (Example)
Moderate Learning disability
Severe Learning disability
Profound Learning disability
Emotional and Behavioural Learning
disability
• Speech language and communication needs
• Multi-sensory impaired
History of SEN in Britain
• 1944 Education Act – is the
watershed for Education policies in
Britain
• Warnock Report
• Elton Report
Warnock (1981) and
Beyond
• Warnock changed the way we look at
disabilities and learning
• From visual to emotional, physical and
behavioural
SEN Laws and policies
• SEN Code of Practice (OHP)
• SEN Tribunal
The Statementing
Process
How to statement a child
or learner
Statementing Process
and IEPs
• What is an IEP?
• Has anyone worked with IEPs
before?
• What is the process of IEPs and its
relation to SEN?
• Can you prepare an IEP?
NEXT SESSION
• IEPs
• What are they?
• How do they work?
Why should I learn about IEPs?
IEPS
• Group work
• Case study – Review the case of Alfie
Hills then prepare an IEP for him