Education Working Group | Including everyone: Supporting people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
Join us as we host a panel event showcasing best practice for supporting people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in education. The panel will explore the current challenges of and approaches to SEND in an international education context through K12, Further Education and Higher Education.
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Registration for this event is now closed. Meetings slides and recordings for select events are available to Members. Event recordings require an access code.
Join us as we host a panel event showcasing best practice for supporting people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in education. The panel will explore the current challenges of and approaches to SEND in an international education context through K12, Further Education and Higher Education.
SEND can affect a child or young person’s ability to learn. They can affect their behaviour or ability to socialise, read and write, concentration levels, and also physical ability. At a global level, despite the recent increase in standardised data on children with disabilities, the availability of comparable data is still highly uneven within and across countries. However, according to estimates by UNICEF’s 2022 Seen, Counted, Included Report, nearly 240 million children worldwide have disabilities, a figure which includes a diverse range of disabilities and special educational needs.
Internationally, as in the UK, there are institutional, attitudinal and environmental barriers to SEND inclusion and participation across all different stages of education. This event will highlight examples of best-practice in SEND inclusion and the current approaches to support children and young people with special educational needs. This includes strengthening the capacity of organisations and institutions to tackle inequality and exclusion. Vitally important alongside this is evidence-based policy making and generating accurate and reliable data to inform these approaches, which ensure effective solutions.
KSI Education develops resources and services informed by real use in schools, working closely with the Oxford Centre for Wellbeing. KSI Education will share their experience of showcasing UK best practice in wellbeing and inclusion in SEND K12 programmes to an international audience in a commercial context.
Advance HE are experts working to improve higher education, with a particular focus on teaching and learning, governance, leadership development and equality, diversity and inclusion. Advance HE will discuss how to empower higher education professionals to create psychologically safe and authentically inclusive environments for disabled and/or neurodivergent students.
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