What is SEN?
At different times in their school life a child may have a Special Education Need (SEN). The code of practice defines SEN as follows:
‘A child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for a special educational provision to be made for him/her. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she:
- Has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others the same age, or
- Has a disability which prevents or hinders him/her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools.’
Types of SEN
In the Code of Practice, SEN and provision falls under four categories:
- Communication and Interaction
- Cognition and Learning
- Social, Emotional andMental Health
- Sensory and/or Physical
This includes a wide range of needs such as:
- Moderate learning difficulties and global delay
- Autism and social communication differences
- Specific learning differences e.g. dyslexia and dyscalculia
- Speech and language difficulties
- Social, emotional and mental health difficulties
- Visual or auditory difficulties
- Anxiety, anger and depression
Our SENCo can be contacted via the school office email on office@edenbridge.kent.sch.uk.