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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

ANNEX 2 ADVICE ON SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS: SUGGESTED CHECHLIST

(A) DESCRIPTION OF THE CHILD'S FUNCTIONING

1. Description of the child's strengths and weaknesses
Physical State and Functioning (physical health, developmental function, mobility, hearing, vision and continence)
Emotional State (link between stress, emotions and physical state)
Cognitive Functioning
Communication Skills (verbal comprehension, expressive language, speech)
Perceptual and Motor Skills
Adaptive Skills
Personal and Social Skills
Approaches and Attitudes to Learning
Educational Attainments
Self-image and Interests
Behaviour

2. Factors in the child's environment which lessen or contribute to his or her needs
In the Home and Family, and including the language of the home
At School
Elsewhere

3. Relevant aspects of the child's history
Personal
Medical
Educational

(B) AIMS OF PROVISION

1. General areas of development (Reference should be made to the relevant attainment targets of the National Guidelines wherever possible.)
Physical Development (e.g. to develop self-care skills)
Motor Development (e.g. to improve co-ordination of hand and figures, to achieve hand/eye co-ordination)
Cognitive Development (e.g. to develop the ability to classify)
Language Development (e.g. to improve expressive language skills)
Social Development (e.g. to stimulate social contact with peers)

2 Any specific areas of weaknesses or gaps in skills acquisition which impede the child's progress
e.g. short-term memory deficits

3. Suggested methods and approaches
Implications of the Child's Medical Condition (e.g. advice on the side-effects of medication for epilepsy)
Teaching and Learning Approaches (e.g. teaching methods for the blind or deaf, or teaching through other specialised methods)
Emotional Climate and Social Regime (e.g. type of regime, size of class or school, need for individual attention)

(C) FACILITIES AND RESOURCES

1. Special Equipment (e.g. physical aids, auditory aids, visual aids., specialist equipment for teaching children with physical -or sensory disabilities, non-teaching aids)
2. Specialist Facilities (e.g. for incontinence, for medical examination, treatment and drug administration)
3. Special Educational Resources (e.g. Specialist teaching, additional teaching and auxiliary support)
4. Other Specialist Resources (e.g. Nursing, Social Work and Welfare Support, Speech, and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychotherapy, Audiology, Orthoptics)
5. Physical Environment e.g. access and facilities for non-ambulant pupils, attention to lighting environment, attention to acoustic environment, attention to thermal environment, health care accommodation, privacy of continence care)
6. School Organisation and Attendance (e.g. day attendance, weekly boarding, termly boarding, relief hostel accommodation)
7. Transport

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