SEND means ‘Special Educational Need and Disability’. Children learn at different rates. Many pupils, at some time during their school career, will experience difficulties which may impact upon their rate of learning; these may be long or short term. A child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for them. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if they:
- have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age;
- have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age.
Children with SEND have needs that fall into broad areas of need. The categories of SEND that provision is made for in our school are:
Communication and Interaction
- Speech, Language and Communication Need (SLCN)
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Cognition and Learning
- Moderate Learning difficulties (MLD)
- Specific Learning difficulties (SpLD)
Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties
- Behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD)
Sensory and/or Physical Needs
- Visual impairment (VI)
- Hearing impairment (HI)
- Multi-sensory impairment (MSI)
Physical Difficulties (PD)