SEND Supports for Families by

Areas of need

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The SEND Code of Practice identifies 4 areas of need:
1. Communication & Interaction - including Speech and Language, Autism and social communication difficulties
2. Cognition & Learning - including moderate learning difficulties and specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia
3. Social, Emotional and Mental Health
4. Physical & Sensory - including deafness, hearing, mobility and sensory processing

What are social communication needs?

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Children and young people with social communication needs, including Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism, are likely to have particular difficulties with understanding age-related social conventions of interaction, such as turn-taking during conversations or appropriate level of physical contact during play.

They may also experience difficulties with language, communication and imagination, which can impact on how they relate to others.

Autism-specific resource padlet

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An excellent resource base maintained by local Norfolk Educational Psychologists

What are speech and language needs?

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Children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) have difficulty in communicating with others.

They may have difficulty within one, several or all of the areas below -

expressive communication (the words they use)
speech sound development (the clarity of sounds/words they use)
receptive communication (understanding the words others use)
attention and understanding age-related social conventions

Speech and Language Therapy Service

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A guide to using visual supports

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Ages and Stages of Speech Development

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What are learning and cognition needs?

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Support for learning difficulties may be required when children and young people learn at a slower pace than their peers, even with appropriate differentiation. Learning difficulties cover a wide range of needs, including moderate learning difficulties (MLD), severe learning difficulties (SLD).
Specific learning difficulties (SpLD), affect one or more specific aspects of learning. This encompasses a range of conditions such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia

Taken from 6.30/6.31 of SEN Code of Practice

Dyslexia strategies for parents

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Supporting Literacy Development

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A link to a padlet filled with useful resources to support Literacy development, that is regularly updated by local Educational Psychologists

See dyslexia differently

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What are social, emotional and mental health needs?

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Children and young people may experience a wide range of social and emotional difficulties which manifest themselves in many ways. These may include becoming withdrawn or isolated, as well as displaying challenging, disruptive or disturbing behaviour. These behaviours may reflect underlying mental health difficulties such as anxiety or depression, self-harming, substance misuse, eating disorders or physical symptoms that are medically unexplained. Other children and young people may have disorders such as attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder or attachment disorder.

Taken from SEN Code of practice 6.32

Just One Norfolk - Emotional Health

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Supporting young people struggling to attend school

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Zones of Regulation

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Across the Federation we encourage pupils to talk about their feelings and emotions using the zones of regulation approach. As they grow older, we talk about expanding their 'toolkits' with strategies to support regulation

Practical tips to support children's wellbeing and behaviour

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Norfolk Support Services and links

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Family Voice

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We are parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) in Norfolk.

Our aim is to improve services for our children and young people by ensuring that families’ voices are heard by planners and decision-makers.

ASD Parent support groups

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Norfolk & Waveney ASD/ADHD Support Service

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Family Action

Early Help Services

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Family Hubs

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What classifies as a physical need?

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Some children and young people require special educational provision because they have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of the educational facilities generally provided. These difficulties can be age related and may fluctuate over time.

This may include children and young people with cerebral palsy, vision impairment (VI), hearing impairment (HI) or a multi-sensory impairment (MSI) will require specialist support and/or equipment to access their learning.

Occupational Therapy help

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Supporting sensory regulation

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Brief guide to Education, Health and Care Plans - EHCPs

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EHCP needs assessment guidance

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Annual Review information

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Personal Budgets as part of EHCP

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St John's Primary School and Tunstead Primary School

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Mrs Sharon Medler is the SENCo at St John's Primary School in Hoveton and Tunstead Primary School. She can be contacted at senco@greenshoots.norfolk.sch.uk

Supporting your Neurodiverse child

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Supporting your child's behaviour

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An excellent resource that is regularly updated by Norfolk's STEPS behaviour support team and local educational psychology support services

Norfolk Positive Behaviour Strategies

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An online course that will help you think about the messages your child is trying to communicate to you and some practical skills and strategies to help you manage your child in a positive way.

Fix It tool - with visuals

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A resource used within the Federation to support reflective conversations with younger pupils following a behavioural incident

Fix It Tool - for older children

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A resource used within the Federation to support reflective conversations following a behavioural incident with older pupils

Short Breaks - activities for young people with disabilities

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Able 2 b - 1to1, group and class sessions for all ages

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Who are SENDIASS and how can they help?

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Norfolk SENDIASS website

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Just One Norfolk - Sleep

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Nansa - Sleep Service

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State funded special schools

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