This week’s topics
Targeted Strategies for Special Needs
- Assistive technologies and digital accessibility
- Sensory regulation strategies
- Communication scaffolds
- Deploying paraprofessionals and support staff effectively
- What if… we thought anew about how we support special educational needs and disability?
What you will be able to do
- 2.2 Describe factors impacting on the development of learners and how they learn.
- 2.3 Analyse strategies to support learners with special needs.
Activity
Start with this week’s video, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe factors impacting on the development of learners and how they learn.
Study materials
Videos
- What if… we thought anew about how we support special educational needs and disability? · YouTube · UCL · 85 min · for registered students
- What if… we thought anew about how we support special educational needs and disability? · YouTube · UCL Institute of Education · 85 min · for registered students
- Teaching in fully-inclusive classrooms | The Staffroom · YouTube · UCL Institute of Education · 42 min · for registered students
- Deafblindness and accessibility: Are we including everyone? | Inclusive Voices: Deafblindness · YouTube · UCL Institute of Education · 40 min · for registered students
Further resources
- National Professional Qualification for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators framework (DfE, 2024) · PDF · GOV.UK, framework; 48 pages · for registered students
- Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years (DfE/DHSC, 2015) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 292 pages · for registered students
- Educational Psychology (Seifert & Sutton), ch. 5: Students with special educational needs · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 85–108 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
