UCC : Special Educational Needs

Special Educational Needs : A restriction in the capacity of a person to participate in and benefit from education on account of an enduring physical,sensory,mental health, or learning disability or any other condition which results in a person learning differently from a person without the condition.

One of the first definitions that's vital to know in relation to the area of teaching in schools. It is more important for me as I have a autistic pupil in my 2nd year class. One must be aware of the pupils disability he/she has and to acknowledge it and identify it and most importantly work with the pupil and aid to his/her help and make the pupil part of the class. Not to make him/her an outcast and seperated from the class room environment and his/her peers. By doing

Inclusion : Inclusive education describes the process by which a school attempts to respond to all pupils as individuals by reconsidering and reconstructing its curricular organization and provision and allocating resources to enhance equity of opportunity.  

A great example from my school and which they deal with Inclusion inlcudes the installing of amps in certain rooms around the school, a pupil in 1st year of his education is hard of hearing and instead of making him wear a hearing aid and be distracted by the interferrance of other classes,school bell and mobile phones around his space. The school have agreed that 4 amps will be installed into each room and the teacher will have to wear a head piece in these selected rooms while teaching the pupil. The head piece has a mic and the teachers voice is made louder and clearer with the aid of the 4 amps to allow the pupil to continue on with a normal education. Such an example is great, the school identify's the issue, over come it and facilitate the pupil.