
SEN Support in a Learning Environment
How to achieve a positive learning environment - The basics.
No matter if you are a student, professional, parent or volunteer, this special needs online course provides an excellent opportunity to gain the right skills and knowledge to support children with special needs in reaching their full potential.

What You'll Learn
- 1 Summary
- 2 Contents – Part One
- 3 Understanding Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
- 4 Understanding Special Educational Needs and Disabilities – Autism Focused
- 5 What we can see vs What we can’t see
- 6 Other common examples of special educational needs
- 7 Theory of Mind – ToM
- 8 Communication and Autism (ASD)
- 9 Quiz One
- 10 Non-Verbal Communication – Visual Support
- 11 Why do we use visuals in SEN settings?
- 12 PECS – Picture Exchange Communication System
- 13 Phase 1: How to communicate
- 14 Phase 2: Distance and Persistence
- 15 Phase 3: Picture Discrimination
- 16 Phase 4: Sentence Structure
- 17 Now and next boards
- 18 Makaton
- 19 Communication support – Social stories
- 20 Examples of Social Stories
- 21 Quiz Two
- 22 Verbal Communication
- 23 Emotional Regulation and Autism
- 24 Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
- 25 Positive Behaviour Support plan (PBS)
- 26 EHCP – Education, Health and Care plan
- 27 Why do SEN Children have an EHCP?
- 28 Quiz Three
- 29 First Day in an SEN Environment
- 30 Contents – Part 2
- 31 Key things to help prepare for your first day
- 32 Soft Play benefits for SEN
- 33 OT (Occupational Therapy) for SEN
- 34 Benefits of OT
- 35 Sensory Room Benefits for SEN
- 36 Quiz Four
- 37 Fine Motor skills
- 38 Crisis – what it looks like and what to do
- 39 Your role in a crisis
- 40 Stage 3 – Crisis
- 41 Safe Space/De-escalation space
- 42 Safe space log
- 43 Quiz Five
- 44 Behaviour Iceberg
- 45 Transitions and Autism
- 46 Sensory Overload and Autism
- 47 Key points about sensory overload in Autism
- 48 Ear Defenders
- 49 Always remember…..
- 50 Quiz Six
- 51 End of Course
- 52 End of Course Assessment (SEN)
- 53 End of training course