Special Educational Needs

Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) can affect a child or young person’s ability to learn. They can affect their:

• behaviour or ability to socialise, for example they struggle to make friends
• reading and writing, for example because they have dyslexia
• ability to understand things
• concentration levels, for example because they have ADHD
• physical ability

Please see attachments and links below that help to support this topic. 

Autism - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - NHS (www.nhs.uk)