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Category Archives: SEN
“20% of schoolchildren have Special Needs”, False!
So can 20% of schoolchildren really have Special Needs, as Peter Stanford stated in an article for this newspaper last week? In general, the answer is no. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Will parents be able to select the best expert assistance for SEN children?
Fears of draft legislation will see many children removed from the special education register altogether. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Summer school for less well-off primary pupils
Thousands of children will get ‘top-up’ classes to prepare them for transition to secondary school. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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More financial control for parents with SEN children
Parents are to be given more financial control over support for children with special educational needs, in a major shake-up of the system in England. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Special needs children on the rise…
The £5 billion budget for pupils with learning difficulties is rising fast – but is the money being used to cope with a new tide of poor parenting and failed teaching? {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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SENtenced to failure?
Ofsted has accused schools of using special educational needs as a cover for poor teaching. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
Posted in Head teachers, Ofsted, Parents, SEN, Teachers
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New scheme succeeds in keeping excluded children in mainstream school
A groundbreaking initiative, that puts money and responsibility in headteachers’ hands, is helping to keep children who face exclusion in mainstream education. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
SEN shake-up: every child assessed before three
Every child will have their cognitive development assessed by the age of two and a half, under plans to identify special educational needs (SEN) as early as possible. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Youngest in school year more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD research
Tens of thousands of children are being misdiagnosed with ADHD because they are the youngest in their class and their immaturity is being mistaken for hyperactivity, a study has suggested. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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SEN: MPs shocked by teens’ plight
MPs have expressed shock that almost a third of 18-year-olds with special educational needs are not in any form of education, employment or training. Too many young people are falling through the gaps once they leave school, the Commons Public … Continue reading
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The risk factors affecting educational development
A quarter of today’s UK children are living in families which pose more than one risk to their educational development, a study says. Institute of Education researchers analysed 10 risk factors affecting more than 18,000 families. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
Posted in Behaviour, Boys, Girls, Parents, Pupil health, Research, Safeguarding, SEN
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New changes to GCSE ‘will penalise dyslexic pupils’
Plans to award marks for spelling and grammar are unfair to those with learning difficulty, experts warn. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Autism: Brainwaves ‘show risk from age of six months’
It may be possible to detect autism at a much earlier age than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Brain scans in pre-school children pick up early signs of dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia, dyslexia that is not caused by brain trauma, is typically diagnosed at around seven to eight-years-old, however a team from the Children’s Hospital Boston in the United States found they could see signs of the condition on brain … Continue reading
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23 ways to get you up to speed with SEN
Special educational needs is a huge and bewildering arena. Anthea Davey unravels a few of the complexities. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Fulfilling potential: Working together to empower disabled people
On 1 December 2011, the government announced a discussion with disabled people to gather suggestions for a new cross-government disability strategy. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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SEN children make big step forward in English and maths, according to new report
Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have made remarkable progress in attainment, behaviour and attendance under a Government-funded pilot, according to a new report. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Disabled children excluded from education
One in three of the children around the world who do not have access to primary education have a disability, says a report from the charity Sightsavers. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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A way into books for children with dyslexia
Dyslexia Awareness Week, an annual event celebrated around the world to raise public awareness about dyslexia, begins today and runs until Sunday 6th November. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
More schoolchildren ‘being diagnosed with special needs’
Official figures show more than one-in-five pupils in England are now labelled as suffering behavioural problems, learning and communication difficulties or physical disabilities. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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