Provision for Children with Disabilities
Some children have serious physical disabilities. Some children also have significant medical needs and/or a sensory problem such as blindness or deafness.
We teach mobility skills in the classrooms and corridors and do much physiotherapy in the classrooms. Each classroom has specialist hoist facilities for the safe moving and handling of children with physical disabilities. There are specially equipped hygiene areas nearby.
Each child is seated or stood in recommended positions using specialist furniture both for his or her health and for engaging in class activities. There are regular changes of position to avoid boredom, cramps or fatigue.
Each classroom has an area which can be used for physiotherapy and developing sensory perception and exploratory skills using specialist equipment and computers.
All staff are skilled in using specialist communication techniques such as communication boards and books with pictorial symbols or objects for reference.
If a child cannot cope with the ordinary classroom environment for any activities, he or she will have access to Class 4 - a specialist classroom in the school where there is a carefully controlled learning environment.
Class 4 is taught by a teacher who is a specialist in teaching pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties. She has a responsibility for advising the staff in the other classes and for the arrangements for use of the mobility trail, the hydrotherapy pool and the multi-sensory studio.
Specialist assessment and therapy will be carried out by physiotherapists and occupational therapists in Class 4, in the other classrooms and a specially equipped therapy room. The therapists will work in close consultation with parents and with the class teams.
There are some important facilities for these children in the school:
- a pool for warm water activities
- computers with specialist switches and software
- the ‘multi-sensory studio’ with its specialist auditory and visual stimulation equipment
- sensory garden and horticultural benches in the inner courtyard
- a mobility trail
We teach mobility skills in the classrooms and corridors and do much physiotherapy in the classrooms. Each classroom has specialist hoist facilities for the safe moving and handling of children with physical disabilities. There are specially equipped hygiene areas nearby.
Each child is seated or stood in recommended positions using specialist furniture both for his or her health and for engaging in class activities. There are regular changes of position to avoid boredom, cramps or fatigue.
Each classroom has an area which can be used for physiotherapy and developing sensory perception and exploratory skills using specialist equipment and computers.
All staff are skilled in using specialist communication techniques such as communication boards and books with pictorial symbols or objects for reference.
If a child cannot cope with the ordinary classroom environment for any activities, he or she will have access to Class 4 - a specialist classroom in the school where there is a carefully controlled learning environment.
Class 4 is taught by a teacher who is a specialist in teaching pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties. She has a responsibility for advising the staff in the other classes and for the arrangements for use of the mobility trail, the hydrotherapy pool and the multi-sensory studio.
Specialist assessment and therapy will be carried out by physiotherapists and occupational therapists in Class 4, in the other classrooms and a specially equipped therapy room. The therapists will work in close consultation with parents and with the class teams.
There are some important facilities for these children in the school:
- a pool for warm water activities
- computers with specialist switches and software
- the ‘multi-sensory studio’ with its specialist auditory and visual stimulation equipment
- sensory garden and horticultural benches in the inner courtyard
- a mobility trail
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