Supporting special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) - information leaflets for use by schools

Attention difficulties

• Meeting the needs of children and young people with attention difficulties (PDF, 1 MB)

Autism and social communication

• Autism and Social Communication - information for schools (PDF, 727 KB)

Bullying

• Anti-bullying (PDF, 263 KB)

Cognition and learning

• Cognition and Learning Motor and Sensory Team (PDF, 698 KB)
• Specific learning difficulties (PDF, 4 MB)
• Are you sitting comfortably? (PDF, 3 MB)
• Reading Difficulties (PDF, 4 MB)

Communication and interaction

• Speech & Language Support Programme (SALSP) - information for schools (PDF, 866 KB)

English as an Additional Language (EAL)

• Arabic students in English schools (PDF, 3 MB)
• Assessing English as an additional language (EAL) pupils - information for secondary schools (PDF, 2 MB)
• English literature for new arrivals (PDF, 477 KB) 
• Supporting children with English as an additional language - information for primary school teaching assistants (PDF, 317 KB)
• Supporting children with English as an additional language - information for teaching assistants/peer mentors (PDF, 313 KB)

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT)

• Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) Education (PDF, 367 KB)

Health needs

• Students with health needs (PDF, 351 KB)
• Making Mental Health Everybody's Business - A Practitioner's Guide (PDF, 543 KB)

Hearing impairment

• Deaf awareness in your classroom (PDF, 1 MB)
• Providing transport for hearing impaired children (PDF, 188 KB)

Movement difficulties

• Movement support (PDF, 1 MB)

Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)

• An introduction to social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) - CPD training for school based staff (PDF, 459 KB)
• Social, emotional and mental health (PDF, 899 KB)

Sensory impairment

• Pre-school children who have a sensory impairment and complex needs (PDF, 653 KB)

Using symbols

• Guidelines for the use of symbols in County Durham schools (PDF, 4 MB)

Visual impairment

• Children and young people who have a visual impairment (PDF, 883 KB)
• Strategies to support pupils who are visually impaired (PDF, 1 MB)
• Tips for working with children with a visual impairment (PDF, 817 KB)
• Training visual skills (PDF, 886 KB)
• Working with a child with a visual impairment (PDF, 1013 KB)