GLOSSARY - TOGETHER IS BETTER.
This is The Comenius Project Glossary proposed in order to explain some words which you may encounter while reading or listening about
SEN (Special educational needs) Education.
Accommodations
Changes that allow a person with a disability to participate fully in an activity.
Examples include: extended time, different test format, and alterations to a classroom, etc.
Assessment
An ongoing process of finding out a child's progress, achievements, strengths and needs.
It may include psychological, medical and medical assessment.
Chronological age
Age in years and months.
Early education practitioners
All adults working with children (birth to five) in early education settings.
Educational Assistant (EA) - TA – Teaching assistant
A person who provides assistance to students under the supervision of the students’ teacher(s).
IEP (Individual Education Plan)
A working document recording short-term targets and strategies for an individual pupil.
Intervention
A planned activity to increase students’ skills. May be preventative (keeping possible problems from becoming a serious disability), remedial (increasing skills) or compensatory (giving the individual new ways to deal with the disability).
Learning Styles
Defines how people prefer to receive information according to their senses (auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, tactile).
Main streaming
Providing any services, including education, for children with disabilities, in a setting with
other children who do not have disabilities – benefiting all
children.
SEN
Special Educational Needs
Special Education
Specialized instruction tailor made to fit the unique learning strengths and needs of students with disabilities.
A major goal of special education is to teach the skills and knowledge a child needs to be as independent as possible.
Special school
A school that is just for children with statements of special educational needs.
This is a school that is specially organised to make special educational provision for pupils with SEN.
Changes that allow a person with a disability to participate fully in an activity.
Examples include: extended time, different test format, and alterations to a classroom, etc.
Assessment
An ongoing process of finding out a child's progress, achievements, strengths and needs.
It may include psychological, medical and medical assessment.
Chronological age
Age in years and months.
Early education practitioners
All adults working with children (birth to five) in early education settings.
Educational Assistant (EA) - TA – Teaching assistant
A person who provides assistance to students under the supervision of the students’ teacher(s).
IEP (Individual Education Plan)
A working document recording short-term targets and strategies for an individual pupil.
Intervention
A planned activity to increase students’ skills. May be preventative (keeping possible problems from becoming a serious disability), remedial (increasing skills) or compensatory (giving the individual new ways to deal with the disability).
Learning Styles
Defines how people prefer to receive information according to their senses (auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, tactile).
Main streaming
Providing any services, including education, for children with disabilities, in a setting with
other children who do not have disabilities – benefiting all
children.
SEN
Special Educational Needs
Special Education
Specialized instruction tailor made to fit the unique learning strengths and needs of students with disabilities.
A major goal of special education is to teach the skills and knowledge a child needs to be as independent as possible.
Special school
A school that is just for children with statements of special educational needs.
This is a school that is specially organised to make special educational provision for pupils with SEN.