Concept

Special educational needs

Details
Tagged entities

Properties

Alt label

Additional educational needs
Educational needs
Educationally subnormal
SEN
Special education
Special educational needs and disability
Special needs
Special schools
SSN

SES ID

93083
49163
49751
49754
51007
51071
413623
51075
51076
51089

Notation

93083

In scheme

Subject

Broader

Education

Narrower

Conductive education

Related

Learning disability

Scope note

No need to include Disability as heading or online term unless it is an important separate aspect of the question.

Definition

Applies to children and young people who have learning difficulties or disabilities that make it significantly harder for them to learn or access education than most other people of their age.

History note

Discussed in January 2015; SEND and Special educational needs and disability added as synonyms.

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