1. Special Education Needs
Shaaira Alexis
Education Consultant
Researcher

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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

6. History of SEN in Britain
1944 Education Act – is the watershed for Education policies in Britain
Warnock Report
Elton Report

7. Warnock (1981) and Beyond
Warnock changed the way we look at disabilities and learning
From visual to emotional, physical and behavioural

8. SEN Laws and policies
SEN Code of Practice (OHP)
SEN Tribunal

9. The Statementing Process
How to statement a child or learner

10. 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?

11. NEXT SESSION IEPs What are they?
How do they work? Why should I learn about IEPs?

12. IEPS
Group work
Case study – Review the case of Alfie Hills then prepare an IEP for him