Physical and/or sensory strands

Tailored approaches for physical and/or sensory strands

Aspect Presenting Barriers & Challenges
Learners who are deaf or have a hearing impairment Accessibility within the classroom environment: Environmental adjustments & adaptations.
Access to the teacher & other learners in the lesson: Ensuring practitioners understand the learner's needs and apply inclusive strategies.
Friendships & social situations: Support children in identifying their own wellbeing priorities.
Access to exams and assessments: Stay informed on best practices and legal requirements.
Auditory fatigue: Due to the increased effort required for listening.
Executive functioning: Deaf or hearing-impaired learners experience differences in executive functioning, creating obstacles in day-to-day life in a society that expects us to work a certain way such as meeting deadlines and perform tasks in a certain way.
Delayed literacy skills: Advice on suitable adaptations for reading instruction.
Frequent and inconsistent spelling errors: Advice on suitable adaptations and effective strategies.
Learners with a visual impairment Access to classroom environment: Environmental adjustments & adaptations.
Moving around the setting: Environmental adjustments & adaptations.
Handwriting tasks: Adaptations & effective instruction.
Accessing Maths Resources: Adaptations and adjusted resources.
IT lessons: Adaptations & effective instruction.
Access to interactive whiteboards:
Access to practical lessons (DT, Science, Food Tech, PE): Adaptations and adjusted resources.
Making friends and social situations: Guidance and advice.
Accessing Exams and Assessments: Stay informed on best practices and legal requirements.
Independent dressing: Strategies and guidance.
Independence in eating: Strategies, guidance and adapted resources.
Independence in organising personal equipment: Strategies, guidance and adapted resources.
Learners with a Multi-Sensory Impairment/deafblind Accessing the school/setting environment: Adaptations and adjusted resources.
Hearing/locating the teacher/peers: Accessing the lesson.
Making friends and social situations: Guidance and advice.
Fatigue: Due to the increased effort required for listening and looking.
Difficulties in accessing text/resources: Due to low vision.
Sensory Identifying sensory differences: Assessment tools.
Tasting (gustatory) differences: Information and adjustments.
Smelling (olfactory) differences: Information and adjustments.
Tactile (touch) differences: Information and adjustments.
Proprioceptive differences: (sense of self-movement, force, and body position) Information and adjustments.
Vestibular differences: (the vestibular system helps maintain your sense of balance) Information and adjustments.
Interoceptive differences: (the internal sensory system that allows us to be aware of what is happening inside our bodies, such as feeling hunger, thirst, pain, or emotions like anxiety) Information and adjustments.
Physical Fine motor difficulties: Assessment, adaptations and intervention.
Gross motor difficulties: Assessment, adaptations and intervention.
Mobility: Adaptations and guidance.
Severe and complex medical needs: Including a life-threatening diagnosis or condition. Guidance and advice.