Areas of Need

There are four broad areas (categories) of SEND, these are:

• Communication and Interaction

This area of need includes children with Autism Spectrum Condition and those with Speech, Language and Communication Needs.

• Cognition and Learning

This includes children with Specific Learning Difficulties, Moderate Learning Difficulties, Severe Learning Difficulties and Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties.

• Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties

This includes any children who have an emotional, social or mental health need that is impacting on their ability to learn.

• Sensory and/or Physical Difficulties

This area includes children with a hearing impairment, visual impairment, multi-sensory impairment and physical difficulties.

Your child’s area/s of need will be named on their SEN or EHC Plan.

We provide a wide range of different interventions for each area of need/SEN. Some examples are listed below.

Cognition and Learning

• Regular, individual/small group focussed intervention.
• Practical aids for learning e.g. word banks, number lines.
• Power Up! Lexia literacy programme.
• Read Write Inc phonics programme
• Access to technical aids e.g. ICT software and/or hardware.
• Exam access arrangements.
• Handwriting / Typing intervention.
• Targeted QFT.

Communication and Interaction

• Visual timetables and supports.
• Modifications to break times and lunch times.
• Access to technology where appropriate.
• Careful planning of transitions.
• Lego Therapy.
• Social Skills / Friendship Skills intervention.
• Social Stories and Comic Strip conversations.
• Tactile sensory objects and/or ear defenders.
• Exam access arrangements.

SEMH

• Access to counselling.
• Small group work targeting social, emotional and mental health difficulties e.g. Starving the Anxiety Gremlin, Starving the Anger Gremlin, Zones of Regulation.
• Lego Therapy.
• Social Skills intervention.
• Mentoring.
• Exam access arrangements.
• Tactile sensory objects and/or ear defenders.

Sensory and/or Physical

• Access to practical aids for learning and/or mobility.
• Access to technology/ICT where appropriate.
• Environmental adaptations to suit cohort/individual needs.
• Adaptations of resources and/or curriculum to enable full access.