Supporting Learners Guides
These downloadable guides aim to provide you with an understanding of the impact of autism, dyslexia and hearing impairment on learning, and of how to better support learners.
Other Tag: Inclusive Learning
Introduction to Dyslexia and Inclusive Practice
This free online module aims to provide practitioners with an improved awareness of what dyslexia is and how it can be supported.
My Computer My Way
My Computer My Way is a step-by-step guide to individual adjustments you can make to your computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone to make it easier to use.
New major package to support online learning
The Education Secretary has announced that vulnerable and disadvantaged young people across the country will receive free laptops.
Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching
This free online course aims to give you practical tools and theoretical insights to help dyslexic students learn second languages. It is designed for teachers of ESOL and for anyone with an interest in dyslexia and language learning.
Adult Pre-Entry Curriculum Framework
The Adult Pre-Entry Curriculum Framework for Literacy and Numeracy is available in electronic version online.
Report highlights SEND policy failures
A report on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision published by the Commons Education Committee brings to light government failings to implement reforms in the 2014 Children and Families Act across colleges and schools.
Centres for Excellence in SEND
Three national Centres for Excellence in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) will provide expert support for leaders, managers and practitioners who wish to put learners with SEND at the centre of their organisation as part of a Department for Education funded national programme.
Pam’s Secret – from Gatehouse Books
We introduce the new Supermarket Stories series with Pam’s Secret by Margaret Adams, a new adult beginner reader with a comprehensive set of tutor resources on CD-ROM.
DfE ends requirement for post-16 dyslexia assessements
The Department for Education has announced an assessment for a specific learning difficulty (which includes dyslexia) undertaken at any age will allow people with dyslexia to apply for support right through to higher education, ending the need for post-16 assessments from February 2019 for those applying for DSA.
Mindful Toolkit
The Mindful Toolkit, which includes information cards and task cards, is designed to be used with prisoners with a range of SEND needs, and has a focus on mental well-being.
Know Your Normal: mental health in young autistic adults
Autism is not a mental health condition itself, but around 70-80% of children and adults on the autism spectrum have experienced mental health problems. Autistic young people have particular difficulty finding suitable help. This new report presents recommendations from a study in which young autistic people themselves were partners in an academic research project to explore their experiences and needs.