Types of SEND provision
Moderate Learning Difficulties
Difficulties with memory, information processing, comprehension, phonological skills
Provisions:
- Broad and balanced curriculum, differentiated appropriately to meet the needs of individuals using their pupil passports.
- Targeted students are taught in the nurture group, and/or Student Support Centre and Student Support Centre Plus.
- Additional targeted interventions delivered by SEND support staff.
Speech, Language and Communication
Difficulties with understanding and using language, social interaction, difficulties including Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Provisions:
Advice and support from speech and language therapists and STARS – Specialists Training in Autism and Raising Standards
- Specialist withdrawal interventions
- Socially speaking groups
- Access to Student Support Centre during social times
- Visual timetables and social stories
Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Difficulties with managing emotions; displaying troubling or withdrawn behaviour, anxiety or eating disorders, ADHD
Provisions:
- Additional pastoral support from key workers via an SEMH Graduated Response Plan
- Boxall Assessment and Learning Plan
- Targeted mentoring/intervention sessions
- Counselling support
- Access to the Student Support Centre during social times
- Referral to Student Support Centre Plus
- Emotional literacy intervention
- Advice and support from CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) and targeted services (Cluster) to support families.
Physical, Sensory and Medical
Hearing or visual impairments and physical disabilities
Provisions:
- Alternative forms of communication including Makaton
- Additional opportunities for hands-on learning e.g. use of Numicon, foam letters etc.
- Adaptations made to the learning environment
- Additional use of specialist equipment e.g. writing slopes, magnifying glass, bold-lined exercised books with larger spaces between the lines
- Creation of risk assessments, including personal emergency evacuation plans, if appropriate
- Evacuation chairs for students with physical disabilities
- Access arrangements including modified papers