Special educational needs
Sport and performing arts can be difficult to access for a young person with special educational needs. We recognise how individual these needs are, adapting our programmes to suit a diverse range of capabilities to help young people fulfill their potential.
Our specialist SEN coaches
We provide special schools with a full-time specialist SEN coach to develop innovative and creative ways to include all young people within the school, meeting a wide range of individual and group needs. These include moderate, severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties, autistic spectrum disorders, physical and sensory impairments, a range of communication needs, as well as emotional and behavioural difficulties.
In practice
Group sessions are creative and fun, incorporating parallel activities to include all abilities, while one-to-one work focuses on individual goals such as developing basic motor skills and improving behaviour. A busy day for our coaches might include...
- Mentoring sessions to support achievement of behaviour goals for young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties
- Working as part of a team with physiotherapists or speech and language therapists, focusing on basic communication and movement development for young people with severe learning difficulties or physical impairment
- Developing ten-minute skills sessions to support a child who finds concentration a challenge
- Taking time over a whole term – or even school year – to build a relationship whilst enabling the first steps of a new activity
- Opening up pathways to community, club and competitive opportunities to ensure young people are challenged and supported to achieve their best
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Sharing skills
Our specialist SEN coaches share their expertise with Greenhouse coaches working in mainstream schools, helping them to develop new ideas on how to include more young people with special educational needs in a mainstream setting.
Learn more:
Read: Jerome is developing social skills through table tenis
Read: Girls with special needs develop confidence through football
Watch the video: Including all young people in sport
