Special Needs (SEN) Level 2 course

Unit One: Understanding Key Issues and Perspectives

Definitions of special need educational needs
Models of disability
Understanding the concept of inclusive education
Attitudes and stereotypesBeing sensitive to language

Unit Two: Key Legislation

The background to current legislation 

Unit Three: Working with SEN Code of Practice 2001

Fundamental principles of the code of practice 
Understanding how the code of practice might affect your setting 
The role of the SENCO 
Developing the SEN policy 

Unit Four: Identifying and Assessing Children who need extra support

Early identification is not about “sorting” children
Focusing on the child
What to observe
Using the information gained from the observations

Unit Five: Working with Parents

Parents and the Code of Practice
Communicating with parents
Parents as an invaluable source of information
Parent partnership services 

Unit Six: Individual Education Plans

The purpose of IEPs
Understanding when children need an IEP
Reviewing IEPsIEPs can be modified
Writing IEPs 
Storage of IEPs 
What information should an IEP Contain? 
People involved with writing the IEP 

Unit Seven: Gaining additional support for children: Early years action plus

Early years action plus
Sources of support and information

Unit Eight: Valuing and Empowering Children

The code of practice and children
Developing a key worker system
Suggested activities
Helping children to develop a positive self image 
Understanding how the self image is built 

Unit Nine: Supporting Children’s Communication and Interaction

Why communication is an important skill
Understanding the components of interaction
Strategies to develop children’s language
Principles of supporting children’s communications and interaction
Common difficulties for children
Suggested activities

Unit Ten: Supporting Children’s Cognition and Learning

What is Cognitive development? 
Suggested activities 
Learning about abstract concepts Motivation 
Understanding how information is processed 
Language and thought 

Unit Eleven: Supporting Children’s Behaviour and Social and Emotional Development

Guiding children’s behaviour
Learning appropriate behaviour
Understanding how children learn behaviours
Taking a pro-active approach to guiding children’s behaviour
Specific challenging behaviours
Supporting children’s emotional and social development
Suggested Activities

Unit Twelve: Supporting Children’s Sensory and Physical Development

Understanding why sensory development is important
Supporting children’s physical development
Suggested Activities

Unit Thirteen: Summary of Conditions and Impairments in Children

Asthma
Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder
Spectrum Disorder 
Cerebral Palsy
Coeliac Disease
Cystic Fibrosis
Diabetes
Downs Syndrome
Duchenne
Muscular Dystrophy
Dyslexia
Dyspraxia
Eczema
Epilepsy
Fragile X
Hearing
Impairment
Hydrocephalus
Sickle Cell
Disorders
Spina Bifida
Visual Impairment