Special Educational Needs Overview

Before I go into the post for today I want to first apologize for my inability to make the post on schedule as earlier planned. This was due to ill health, but I  promise to make it up to everyone.
So, Special Educational Needs and Special Needs are two very different things. Special Educational needs are significant learning disabilities or difficulties that makes learning for a child more challenging than other children of the same age. Special Needs on the other hand is any form of disability or difficulty that a child my have that makes that child need some assistance to go about day to day activities.

A child may have a special need but may not need Special Educational Needs. This is so because the special need does not pose a challenge to the child's learning. The extra help given to children with special educational needs is called Special Educational Provision. S.E.P can  be provided in mainstream schools that have an inclusive program or specialist schools.

Special Educational Needs categorized as follows

Learning Difficulties
Behavioral ,Emotional, Social Difficulties
Sensory, Physical Needs
Communication Needs
Intellectual Needs
Health and Medical Needs

The next post will highlight learning difficulties. kindly note that as earlier stated this series is to diagnose or stigmatize any child but rather to shed more light on an important but sidelined issue.

Once again sorry for the delays in posting. Will do may best to post more frequently. Thanks for dropping by.
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Special Educational Needs Series

I have been thinking of starting a series on special needs. This is because there are various special educational needs that children have. And one good thing is that,  though most S.E.Ns can not be cured they are totally manageable with early diagnosis and intervention.
This series is a snap shot of S.E.N conditions. It's also will help parents, teachers and other stakeholders in early observation.


Kindly note that most children will show some signs in the course of their lives. But these signs become Special Educational Need when it poses a challenge to the learning of the child.
Please not also that even when some signs have been observed in a child, the child will need to be taken for a professional assessment before statement of a condition is given.

In the course of the series I will name various places and centers in Lagos where such professional assistance can be gotten.

I will run the series in this way ;
Special Educational Needs
Cause
Symptoms
Assessment
This series will start next week Monday
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