Special Education Needs Shaaira Alexis Education Consultant Researcher

Special Education Needs (SEN) Policies 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 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