Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) - Information and Advice

What does it mean to have SEND?

Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can affect a child or young person’s ability to learn. They can affect their: 

- behaviour or ability to socialise, for example they struggle to make friends 

- reading, writing and maths 

- ability to understand things or communicate their needs 

- attention and concentration levels 

- understand their feelings and emotions 

- physical ability 

Pupils can have SEND in one or more of the following areas:

- Receptive language/language comprehension 

- Expressive language 

- Developmental language delay 

- Developmental language disorder 

- Social communication/interaction 

Speech sound difficulties 

- Mild and moderate learning difficulties 

- Specific learning difficulty - Children experience difficulty in one area, e.g. reading, spelling, mathematics 

- These may be temporary or long term and may affect the child's ability to learn. 

- Children who experience social, emotional and mental health difficulties may also have additional difficulties. 

- Hearing impairment 

- Visual impairment 

- Physical impairment 

- Medical needs 

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