This section holds a wealth of useful resources to help support children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Free to access, resources available include information and advice leaflets, case studies, risk assessment examples and ‘top tips’.
All resources have been written and shared by professionals from across the SEND sector and then quality assured by the STLS Professional Leads
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An assessment that gives an overview of a pupil’s current alphabetic code knowledge, phonological processing skills and single word reading and spelling of Phase 2 to 5 common exception and decodable words. This will enable you to individualise your catch up interventions
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Table to record children’s progress and development through the Early Years Foundation Stage – Nursery and Yr R. (To be completed when School Staff attend Reception Age Drop-in with the Early Years Specialist Teacher)
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To be completed by professionals/parents/children to support the assess, plan, do, review cycle for a child experiencing difficulty in school. It is important this is completed where difficulties could lead to attendance, exclusion and wellbeing concerns without additional targeted support
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Introduction to Hemiplegia and how it may impact at different ages in children and young people
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Ideas for including students with coordination disorder in PE lessons
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The National Autistic Society are the UK's largest provider of specialist autism services
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Supports professionals in implementing the assess, plan, do, review cycle of supporting children experiencing difficulty in school
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A method that systematically teaches whole word recognition using words and symbols. This is for those children who cannot access teaching based on synthetic phonics principles
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A set of structured activities and materials to teach early phonological awareness skills, paving the way for the systematic teaching of phonics. These skills need to be taught separately of phoneme grapheme correspondence. This programme can also be used for pupils with speech and language difficulties to support their acquisition of literacy skills
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A structured listening activity with letters to develop phoneme manipulation skills
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A structured listening activity with letters to develop phoneme manipulation skills
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Outlines schools’ responsibilities towards their dyslexic pupils and what best practice should look like, based on current research
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Funded by DfE. Provides a first step in identifying the needs of low achieving pupils based on observations of learning behaviour. Is not a diagnostic tool
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Funded by DfE. Provides a first step in identifying the needs of low achieving pupils based on observations of learning behaviour. Is not a diagnostic tool
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A planning tool for teachers to help them differentiate their lessons for pupils with SEN
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Outlines roles and responsibilities of all KCC partners in identifying and responding to the needs of dyslexic learners
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To support understanding of spoken questions, conjunctions and negatives during whole class teaching
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To support understanding of spoken questions, conjunctions and negatives for individual and small group teaching
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Essential maths vocabulary with symbols for pupils working below the KS1 National Curriculum
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For children and young people with a range of learning difficulties. Provides literature, training and resources for teachers, works directly with families and supports work placements for secondary pupils
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Funded by the DfE to provide reliable and current information to parents, teachers and schools on dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties. Provides a framework for professional development of school staff and a free online version of the Inclusion Development Programmes for a range of SEN
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A resource site for teachers to help them choose a UK quantitively evaluated dyslexia intervention for their pupils
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Offers accredited courses for professionals up to Level 7 and a range of e-learning, open and bespoke courses for all teaching staff. Issues the ‘Dyslexia Friendly Quality Mark’ to those schools who can demonstrate they provide high quality education or practice for dyslexic pupils and a free help line for anyone needing dyslexia related information or support. Offers diagnostic assessments for children and adults and the ‘The Five Minute Box’ which helps staff to identify at risk pupils early, available on a free 28 day trial.
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Affiliated to the British Dyslexia Association, holds regular meetings and workshops for parents and professionals. Website gives parents a range of advice such as choosing a school and how to help their child at home. Covers the Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells area. Has a free helpline. Offers a free Saturday fun club for children who are experiencing low self-esteem in relation to their dyslexia or dyspraxia. Teachers section in development
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Offers support on how technology can assist dyslexic pupils. Reviews new hardware and software and gives information on the enabling technologies already embedded within commonly used IOS, Windows and Google products. Many products available from the BDA store
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Gives an overview of assistive technology including speech recognition tools on tablets, phones and computers and useful apps (OIS and Android) for dyslexic learners and those with more complex needs. Information and advice on a range of SEN
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Sells products that help pupils overcome their literacy difficulties and support inclusive practice: ‘Clicker 8’ - Windows & Macs (Primary), ‘Clicker Writer’ - iPad & Chromebook (Primary), ‘Docs Plus’ – Windows & Macs (Secondary); and ‘Clicker Communicator’ – iPad & Chromebook. Free online training tutorials. Subscribers can access free resources and a Blog
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Sevenoaks STLS is a Widgit Centre - Please contact us for discount code. Allows school staff to create symbol resources in their web browser for pupils who need visual resources to support their learning, such as visual timetables, flashcards and vocabulary sheets. This online version is designed for busy teachers with a wide range of ready to use templates and resources that can be easily shared with colleagues. Includes an add on Dual Language Feature Pack for EAL pupils. Free 21-day trial. One user is £6 a month subscription
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Sevenoaks STLS is a Widgit Centre - Please contact us for discount code. Similar to widgitonline but has more design and layout features to individualise resources further, such as enabling a mixture of writing and symbols within a document and templates that can be edited . Free trial. Single installation £179
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Gives general information about dyscalculia, free online advice service, resources for teachers and parents and a preliminary diagnostic test and articles
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Collection of short video tutorials by Steve Chinn for children and adults who are experiencing difficulties in learning maths
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Information for parents and teachers, e-books series ‘Help your child master numeracy’ with embedded videos, 60 free number games, courses for teachers, whole school training
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Dyscalculia resources for teachers and parents, Numicon at Home Kit, Numicon Breaking Barriers One to One Kit for pupils with SEN
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An example format of an Early Years LIFT request form, with questions and considerations to be used as a prompt to support the completion of the form
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A monitoring sheet to be used to record the implementation and response of interventions for specific targets on a child’s Early Years Personalised Plan
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A plan written with parents, the setting and professionals to identify precise and specific targets and support to be implemented, for a child, to work towards positive progression with challenging social and emotional difficulties
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Information about the National Portage Association and top tips information for working on skill development is included within the “Parents Support” section
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Guidance and activities/recommendations for supporting a wide range of speech and language needs
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Kent NHS Children’s Therapy Service information and advice
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Information, advice and strategies for supporting autism and sensory processing difficulties
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Early Years and Childcare page on KELSI
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A Training and Support Framework for Early Years and Childcare providers
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Resources to help support work in the Early Years
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The role of Early Years policy in promoting social mobility in England
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The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) is a five year research collaboration working with partners from across the world to transform understanding of how children learn to communicate with language
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LuCiD researchers have written six articles on communication and language for Nursery World Magazine. Each article focuses on a different aspect of child language and communicative development linked to LuCID’s research
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Provides free, impartial and confidential information, advice and support about special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) for children, young people up to age 25, parents and carers
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Provide comprehensive support services to families of children and young people with any form of physical, learning or sensory impairment living in the Dartford, Gravesham, Sevenoaks and the surrounding areas
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Gives information about the Kent service that supports children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties
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Promotes the well-being of children and young people who are experiencing social, emotional and mental health difficulties
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The Inclusion Development Programme (IDP) is part of the government’s strategy to improve outcomes for children with special educational needs and was first outlined in Removing Barriers to Achievement
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Assesses children and young people's social and emotional development and helps identify blocks to this development. The profile can then be used to develop a bespoke programme for children with Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs
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A programme of professional development to promote and maintain resilience and personal
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Helps develop school professionals' understanding of Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties within the wider context of other supporting services. It provides assessment tools and resources to support
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The UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people's mental health
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Provides advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem
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The Self-Esteem Team deliver emotional and lifestyle education to students, parents and teachers throughout the UK and beyond
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Youth Select Committee’s report on 'Young People's Mental Health' today with recommendations on how to improve support
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Child Bereavement UK supports families and educates professionals both when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying, and when a child is facing bereavement
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Information for Professionals and Parents to help support children who have difficulty coping following experiencing traumatic events
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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief emotional and behavioural screening questionnaire for children and young people. The tool can capture the perspective of children and young people, their parents and teachers
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Bliss offers a wide range of free services for the families of premature and sick babies.
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Executive function skills allow us to take on new knowledge and skills and then apply to new situations. In atypical neurodevelopment there will be an impact on how the student learns and processes information and skills
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Understanding acoustics and improving listening conditions for hearing impaired children.
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A resource for assessing and monitoring early listening and communication skills with children with hearing impairment.
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Supporting deaf pupils to successfully learn MFL. Drawn from the advice provided by the National Deaf Children's Society.
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Ali gets hearing aids. He is not sure how he feels about this. A leaflet for children from the National Deaf Children's Society.
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Advice for parents of babies, toddlers and preschool children with hearing impairment. A leaflet from Oticon.
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A story in photos that follows Bella as she gets new earmoulds.
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Follow Bella as she has her hearing test. A photo story.
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Practical advice on checking hearing aids.
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Contact information on deaf friendly clubs and organisation for children.
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Based on an audit designed by Val Jones and Iam Attfield this sensory audit allows practitioners to assess how sensory friendly the school and classroom environment is
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Allows practitioners to assess what specific sensory needs a child or young person may have
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The Communication Trust is a coalition of over 50 not-for-profit organisations. Working together they support those who work with children and young people in England to support their speech, language and communication needs
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The PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) Society provide information, support and training for people living and working with PDA
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Makaton is a unique language programme that uses symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate. Find resources and training opportunities
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RADLD (Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder) provide information and resources about DLD. Recent research has shown that, on average, 2 children in every class of 30 will experience DLD
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Language for Learning provides training and resources to support all those working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
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Speech Link Multimedia Ltd have developed award winning resources, and support packages for children with SLCN. Their assessment tools help practitioners to identify and support children with speech, language and communication needs appropriately
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A leaflet for schools on strategies for children and young people with monocular vision.
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A leaflet for schools with strategies to support children and young people with mild visual impairment.
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Activities and strategies for schools to support development in the seven areas of visual perception difficulties.
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Pre-Braille skills and activities for parents to use.
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A leaflet from Clear Vision and Linden Lodge providing information about Braille and simple exercises to get you started.
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An outline of the VI services from the STLS Sensory Service provided to children in the Early Years and their families.
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A guide for parents and teachers.
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Care and support for deafblind children and adults policy guidance (2014)
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Department of Education tool to support Preparing for Adulthood outcomes across the age ranges.
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Preparing for your child to start at primary school. How you can help. A leaflet for parents from our Family Pack.
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Preparing your child to start at secondary school. What you can do to help. A leaflet for parents from our Family Pack.
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How to help your child with visual impairment develop through play and everyday activities. A leaflet for parents from our Parent Pack.
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General information for parents and carers
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General information for parents and carers on different types of hearing loss
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General information for parents and carers on how to get the best out of hearing aids.
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Tips for working with learners with loss of their vision and hearing (deafblind).
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The textures of messy play categorised from easy to challenging for deafblind children. A helpful at a glance guide from SENSE.
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A toolkit from SENSE to help you explore sensory and inclusive music.
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Useful contacts for parents of deafblind children.
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Easy to follow diagrams to help you teach yourself the deafblind manual alphabet. A leaflet from SENSE
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Advise and suggestions from SENSE for inclusive play with your deafblind child.
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Advice and suggestions from SENSE to support settings with accessible play for deafblind children.
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The importance of the hands to a person who is deafblind - an article by Barbara Miles published on DB-Link.
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Advice and helpful tips from Specialist Teachers for MSI to support your work with learners with MSI/Deafblindness
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Information on this eye condition.
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Information on this eye condition.
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Information on this eye condition.
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Information on this eye condition.
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Information on this eye condition.
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Information on this eye condition.
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An overview of hearing impairment for school professionals, including useful strategies.
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General information for parents and carers on the structure and function of the ear.
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Alphabetic Code Charts illustrate the smallest sounds of speech (phonemes and combined phonemes) linked to the graphemes (letters and letter groups) which are the code for the sounds. They support the teaching and learning of the many letter/s-sound correspondences of the alphabetic code for reading and spelling. You will find a range of sizes and types including the ‘mini chart’ suitable for a table top resource and ‘colour the code’ which can be used to track individual progress with interventions
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Designed to 'help those who teach'. Twinkl create educational resources for teachers that can be used at each step of a child's learning journey. These include schemes of work, lesson plans, assessments, visual resources and educational games. There are over 525,000 resources
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Speechmark books and materials on speech and language, special educational needs and social and emotional wellbeing provide best practice and inspiration to practitioners in education, health and social care
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A curriculum overview of the five writing strands (text structure, sentence structure, word structure/language, punctuation/terminology) by year group with examples. Useful for setting individualised writing targets for children and young people working below their current year group expectations.
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This board game and word challenge cards are used together to play a fun game when learning/retaining vocabulary
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CASPA provides advice, support and life skill development opportunities for children, young people and families affected by Autism.
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Information for On Body/Touch Interaction and Communication
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Advice for schools and early years settings on recognising COVID-19 and hyperinflammatory shock
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Information for schools and parents around the educational challenges for learners with an acquired brain injury
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Practical strategies to help schools understand and effectively include learners with extreme fatigue due to a medical condition
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Introduction to multisensory learning and ideas to support learners, through all Key Stages, who particularly benefit from this approach
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Apps for iPad – Pre-School children with Visual Impairment Free to use and designed to support the development of your child’s vision through stimulation. They are a fun way of developing hand eye co-ordination and tracking skills.
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Introducing and developing your child's tolerance of touch through story-telling.
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Giving young children with VI the opportunity to discover different textures and sensations.
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Listening, Supporting, Empowering disabled children and their families in the Ashford, Dover, Folkestone and Hythe Districts. Other useful links for families living in other parts of Kent
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This is a condition which is described as an association because it affects at least three out of the seven areas which are described in the acronym: vertebral, anal, cardio, traceo, esophagal, renal, limb
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Information to help understand hypermobility and some of the implications for learners in school
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Information for teachers to inform planning for a learner with Cystic Fibrosis , meetings challenges and resources for inclusion
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Important information for schools and EY settings on risk assessing and supporting children and young people using wheelchairs on a daily basis
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A strategy for teaching imaginative play skills to children through modelling and parallel play
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A beginners guide to encouraging early communication in young children with social communication difficulties and Autism
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A brief overview of what PECS is and how to get started when working with children at the early communication stage or children not showing communicative intent
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A beginners guide to using sign language with children displaying developmental delay or needing extra visual support to help them to understand language
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A strategy to help children to regulate themselves to develop their ability to sit, attend and therefore learn alongside their peers
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An integrated approach to help children to access their learning by making sure their sensory needs are met
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A visual teaching approach to help children with Autism to become independent learners
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A summary of assessments that are available for different areas of cognition and learning to help guide your identification of needs for pupils with C&L
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Example of a Pupil Booklet for Transition
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Friendship - A guide for Year 6 and Year 7
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Primary Parents Transition Booklet - What to expect from secondary school and how to support your child
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A Parent's Secondary Transition Guide
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Primary Transition Sessions
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Primary - What makes a good friend session
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Primary - Timetable example for Secondary
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Primary - Troubleshooter Behaviour Sheet
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Example of a Pupil Transition Booklet
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Managing Emotions Session
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Managing Emotions Session
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Transition Resources for Secondary School
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Secondary Transition Sessions
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A Sensory Play booklet which has some great ideas in it to help you to meet the sensory needs of all of your pupils
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The PODD is your main link for finding community therapy services and advice for children and young people in Kent
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Communicating with your child - general information for parents and carers.
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Useful information about supporting CYP with diabetes in school or nursery - accompanies Early Years training on Care Plans and Risk Assessments
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Information to support schools and early years settings welcoming children with allergies
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Information for Early Years setting welcoming children with severe asthma into their settings
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Information for Early Years Settings and schools welcoming children and young people with epilepsy into their setting
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Information and advice for early years settings supporting children with gastrostomy feeding
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Advice for parents claiming Disability Living Allowance for the first time; completing forms, benefits calculator, FAQs
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Personalised Plan Template created by Sevenoaks Specialist Teaching and Learning Service
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A completed example of the Personalised Plan created by Sevenoaks Specialist Teaching and Learning Service
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HeadStart Kent have developed this free resilience toolkit to help schools to implement a whole school approach to resilience and emotional wellbeing
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Useful tools and resources to support staff development and wellbeing
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An outline of working with objects with learners at different stages of communication. From the pre-symbolic communication level, using objects cues, through to symbolic communication level, using objects of reference or object symbols.
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Introduction to Sensory Circuits, often recommended for children with poor co-ordination, balance and self-regulation difficulties
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A workbook for students with physical disability or complex medical needs to help them prepare to move on to their secondary school
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Guidance to help you complete the Moving On workbook for young people with physical disability or complex medical needs preparing for secondary school transition
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Introduction to planning for inclusion of all students with physical disability or complex medical needs. Suitable for all ages.
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Information for Parents and Carers about Sevenoaks Specialist Teaching and Learning Service (STLS)
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Mainstream Core Standards Guidance for Schools
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Mainstream Core Standards Guidance for Parents and Carers
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Ideas and links to resources to support CYP with mental health needs related to their PD or medical needs
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Information for families, settings and schools to link to organisations and charities which support children and young people with vision impairment.
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Information on this Eye Condition
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Information on Depth Perception
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Information on Contrast Sensitivity
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Information on Photophobia
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PRISM study team have produced helpful modules to support educationalists to understand and support children who were born prematurely
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Sevenoaks District Inclusion Guidance
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All About Me form to be completed and sent in with Early Years LIFT referral
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Learn more about epilepsy and how it might impact on learning