Helpful Resources
We’re building a growing resource library here, which we hope will help support you and your pupils. You can use the filters on the left to just show the items that you’re interested in.
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Webinar Series: ‘My Understanding of Deafness’ for primary students
Unlike most of SENDsuccess’s material This 3 part course is designed for students themselves, rather than parents or teachers. This version is for primary students and aims to give them an understanding of deafness and what that may mean for a young person with a hearing loss.
Preparing to come out of lock-down: Social Narratives
These resources have been created by SENDsuccess to help children with autism, or other social communication differences/high anxiety, to prepare for the idea that lockdown will end, and things will begin to get back to normal, albeit a new and maybe different ‘normal’
Webinar Series: ‘My Understanding of Deafness’ for secondary students
Unlike most of SENDsuccess's material This 4 part course is designed for students themselves, rather than parents or teachers. It's for secondary students and aims to give them an understanding of deafness and what that may mean for a young person with a hearing loss. The four parts cover everything from types of hearing loss to how hearing can effect confidence, types of listening device and tips for looking after your mental health.
Understanding Communication: Intensive Interaction – Parent/Carer Guide
Tips for parent/carers on how to effectively use 'intensive interaction' at home.
Sighted Guide: Helping a vision impaired person navigate
A handy guide to help sighted people and vision imapaired people walk together comfortably and safely.
Webinar: Effective transitions for children with SEND in Early Years.
This webinar we look at what nurseries and pre-schools can do make the big move into Reception as smooth a possible, and the preparation that schools need to undertake to help the process.
Webinar: strategies to support dyslexic students in the classroom: spelling
This comprehensive webinar discusses the principles of effective teaching of spelling; how to aid student retention of new spelling patterns; how to plan and deliver effective spelling intervention sessions and how to mark spelling to develop students' confidence to write.
Advice and guidance on social distancing and the hearing impaired
This time of social distancing is difficult for everyone, but for people with a hearing impairment it brings many additional challenges. Here's what you can do to make things easier for your HI friends and colleagues.
Advice and Guidance for a Send Support Plan for Hearing Impaired students
All deaf children require a Send Support Plan. In this article we look at what information should be included on this plan to help schools fullfill their statutory duty.
Webinar: Supporting young people with hearing impairment in school – Part 1/4
In this, the first of four webinars on supporting young people with hearing impairment in mainstream school, we look at the nature of hearing loss– the different types and levels. We also give a short introduction to 'audiograms'.