Early years: sensory, physical and medical needs
Strategies and approaches to support children with a range of sensory, physical and medical needs.
In addition to the quality first teaching expectations outlined in Section 1, additional provision and interventions maybe required. Examples of presenting needs and suggested strategies are given below as a starting point for your planning and classroom practice. For more specialist advice, please see the sensory, physical and medical needs section of the SEND Toolkit.
Identified barriers and or needs:
Early Years: Physical disability
Strategies and provision that could be used to support.
Early years: Physical sensitivity including hyper and hypo responses and possible Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
Strategies and provision that could be used to support including hyper and hypo responses and possible sensory processing disorder.
Early years: Developmental co-ordination difficulties (previously known as dyspraxia)
Strategies and provision that could be used to support developmental co-ordination difficulties, previously known as dyspraxia.
Early Years: Hearing impairment
Strategies and provision that could be used to support.
Early Years: Visual impairment
Strategies and provision that could be used to support. For example, deterioration in visual behaviours e.g. handwriting, copying, moving text closer to eyes, identifying peers in playground, during low light.
Early Years: Tasting (gustatory) differences
Strategies to support children who have aversion to or seek input from certain food tastes and textures.
Early Years: Smelling (olfactory) differences
Strategies to support a child or young person who may have a strong aversion to smells or seeks smells out.
Early Years: Touch (tactile) differences
Strategies to support children and young people with tactile differences.
Early years: Vestibular differences
Vestibular activities and strategies to help to raise a child's level or arousal or alertness.
Early years: Proprioceptive differences
Strategies to support proprioceptive differences.
Early years: Interoceptive differences
Strategies to support.
Medical
Strategies and provision that could be used to support.