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ACE Centre (Communication Difficulties)
Afasic was founded in 1968 as a parent-led organisation to help children and young people with speech and language impairments and their families. We provide information and training for parents - and professionals - and produces a range of publications. Members meet in local groups in many areas of the UK.
Amusica specialises in offering award winning early years percussion instruments and also have a special needs section.
Autism Cymru has a national brief in Wales. It is actively involverd in startegic planning at both local and national level, and works in collaboration with othwer organisations in the health, social services and education sectors
autism.westmidlands provides specialist services to people with autistic spectrum disorders and their families within the West Midlands region.
Barnardo's works with vulnerable children and young people in the UK
British Association for Early Childhood Education
The British Association for Early Childhood Education, founded in 1923, is known as Early Education. It is the leading national voluntary organisation for early years practitioners and parents with members and branches in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
The BDA is the voice of dyslexic people. Our vision is that of a dyslexia friendly society that enables dyslexic people to reach their potential.
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency
Becta is the Government's key partner in the strategic development and delivery of its information and communications technology (ICT) and e-learning strategy for the schools and the learning and skills sectors.
British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD)
BILD is committed to improving the quality of life for the 1.2 million people in the UK with a learning disability.
British Journal of Special Education
Abstracts and contents of recent issues of this NASEN journal
A behavioural management helpline created in direct response from parents seeking support and information about their children's learning and beahviour issues.
Every day over 75 children in the UK are born or diagnosed with a serious disability or rare syndrome and the vast majority of them are cared for at home. Contact a Family is the only UK charity providing support and advice to parents whatever the medical condition of their child.
A national forum for the discussion, development and dissemination of policy and practice issues for disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCFS)
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is responsible for improving the focus on all aspects of policy affecting children and young people, as part of the Government’s aim to deliver educational excellence.
Founded in 1972, Dyslexia Action is a national charity and the UK’s leading provider of services and support for people with dyslexia and literacy difficulties. It provides assessment and tuition for children and adults and runs specialist teacher training courses.
The Ear Foundation is the only national UK charity to support and to provide activities for deaf children and young people with cochlear implants, their families and supporting professionals.
East Midlands SEN Regional Partnership (EMSEN)
EMSEN brings together nine Local Education Authorities in the East Midlands, in partnership with stakeholders in the Health, Social Services, Voluntary and Independent Sectors.
Eastern Region SEN Partnership
We aim to work in partnership to deliver our main Eastern Region SEN Partnership objectives which are to:
- to improve the quality of, and access to, special educational needs services, and
- to promote inclusive policies and practices.
This zone will showcase over 40 leading exhibitors within the field of special needs and will also showcase the winners and some of the other entries from the second annual nasen Poetry Competition.
Equality and Human Rights Commission (Formerly The Disability Rights Commission (DRC))
Facilitating Inclusion North East (FINE)
Facilitating Inclusion North East (FINE) is one of 11 DfES regional partnerships, we work together with 12 Local Education Authorities in the North East of England with the aim of developing more effective inclusive educational practices in collaboration with stakeholders from the Health, Social Services, Voluntary, Non-maintained and Independent Sectors.
Greater Merseyside SEN Regional Partnership
The 6 LEAs within the Partnership are as follows: City of Liverpool (Lead Authority), Halton, Knowsey, St. Helens, Sefton and the Wirral.
The General Teaching Council for England, as the professional body for teaching, provides an opportunity for teachers to shape the development of professional practice and policy, and to maintain and set professional standards.
I CAN is the charity that helps children with speech and language difficulties across the UK. The charity works to create a society where their special needs are recognised, understood and met, so that they have the same opportunities in life as other children.
In Kind Direct is a charity founded in 1996. We distribute new goods donated by some of Britain’s best-known manufacturers and retailers to thousands of voluntary organisations working at home and abroad
In The Picture aims to encourage publishers, illustrators and writers to embrace diversity - so that disabled children are included alongside others in illustrations and story lines in books for young readers. It is not an attempt to create a separate strand of children’s literature, tackling disability issues. The project aims to involve people from all the many areas that are concerned with children's books so that they can be part of changing the culture that currently means disabled children are virtually invisible in early years' books.
Inclusion Website on the National Grid for Learning (NGfL)
Information, news, legislation and advice on issues related to Inclusion.
Inclusive Science and Special Educational Needs
This website brings together resources, articles, supportive policies and web links that are useful to those interested in science and special educational needs inclusion, whether in a mainstream or special school setting.
Independent Panel for Special Education Advice
IPSEA is a volunteer-based organisation and many of the volunteers providing telephone advice and support at Tribunals are themselves parents of children with special educational needs who have been helped by IPSEA in the past. Volunteers providing a second professional opinion service are trained and experienced professionals working in special education, as educational psychologists, speech therapists, teachers, etc.
Institute of Educational Assessors
The Institute of Educational Assessors is being established in response to a growing recognition of the importance of assessment to the education community and the wider public.
ISEC 2005 is a platform for practitioners and academics with an interest in inclusive education. The conference is an opportunity for people involved in inclusive and supportive education around the world to hear about best practice and new ideas, share knowledge and information and extend and consolidate networks.
Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs (JORSEN)
Abstracts and contents of recent issues of this on-line NASEN journal
Over the last 30 years, with the help and support of many teachers and professionals, LDA has become a successful mainstream publisher. Today, still focused on special needs, LDA works to develop the right products for the right children, producing resources that are perfect for all educational needs
London SEN Regional Partnership
The London SEN Regional Partnership is one of a network of regional partnerships set up by DfES. The partnerships' aims are to establish more effective regional cooperation in special educational needs services in order to ensure the general availability and efficient provision of such services.
Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers.
National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE)
NACE exists solely to support the daily work of teachers providing for pupils with high abilities whilst enabling all pupils to flourish.
The NAS exists to champion the rights and interests of all people with autism and to ensure that they and their families receive quality services appropriate to their needs.
National College of School Leadership (NCSL)
The National College for School Leadership (NCSL) provides career-long learning and development opportunities, professional and practical support for England’s existing and aspiring school leaders. Our goal is to ensure that school leaders have the skills, recognition, capacity and ambition to transform the school education system into the best in the world.
National Deaf Children's Society
The National Deaf Children’s Society is the only UK charity solely dedicated to providing support, information and advice for deaf children and young people, their families and professionals working with them.
National Parent Partnership Services
National Parent Partnership Services offer information, advice and support for parents of children and young people with special educational needs (SEN). Your child’s school or your Local Authority will have details of
your local service.
NCH, one of the UK's leading children's charities, helps children achieve their full potential. Through our services we support some of the UK's most vulnerable and excluded children and young people. Formerly known as The National Children's Home, today we're simply called NCH.
North West SEN Regional Partnership
There are 16 LEAs in the North West consortium of varying type and size with differing infrastructures, issues and local needs. The 16 LEAs within the Partnership are as follows: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Warrington, Wigan
OAASIS will help if you believe a person in your care may have special needs or you are struggling to get the answers you require.
Ofsted is a non-ministerial government department established under the Education (Schools) Act 1992 to take responsibility for the inspection of all schools in England, whether state or independent. Its role also includes the inspection of local education authorities, teacher training institutions and youth work. During 2001, Ofsted became responsible for inspecting all 16–19 education (through college inspections and 14–19 area-wide inspections) and for the regulation of early years childcare, including childminders.
Part of the Granada Learning group and distributors of NASEN Publications.
This site provides online training to those working with children and young people with special educational needs.
Princess Royal Trust for Carers
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers exists to make it easier for carers to cope by providing information, support and practical help. The national network of over 100 independently-managed Carers Centres across the UK currently reaches well over 100,000 carers a year
This section of the QCA website aims to answer questions on Inclusion, outlines QCA policy on Inclusion and supports educational professionals.
RADAR's vision is of a society where human difference is routinely anticipated, expertly accommodated and positively celebrated. OUR MISSION is to promote change by empowering disabled people to achieve their rights and expectations; and by influencing the way that disabled people are viewed as members of society.
At Rising Stars we spend a great deal of time talking to teachers and parents and using their feedback to build a programme of publishing designed to help children succeed at school. Every book or piece of software we create meets a specific need and is written, tested and reviewed by practising teachers, educational advisers and subject experts.
Royal National Institute for the Blind
RNIB are UK’s leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight problems.
Royal National Institute of the Deaf (RNID)
RNID campaigns in many ways to make daily life better for deaf and hard of hearing people. We also support deaf and hard of hearing people by providing free information via our helplines, running vital services, supporting scientific and technological research, and running the RNID Typetalk telephone relay service. And we help other organisations to provide better services to their deaf and hard of hearing employees and customers.
Scope is a disability organisation in England and Wales whose focus is people with cerebral palsy. Our aim is that disabled people achieve equality: a society in which they are as valued and have the same human and civil rights as everyone else.
Scottish Society for Autistic Children
The Scottish Society for Autism is a Scottish registered charity established in 1968 and works together with persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), their families, carers, and other organizations, agencies, and individuals in Scotland.
SEBDA is a charitable organisation that exists to promote excellence in services for children and young people who have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
This forum has been created for everyone working within the special needs area. This is a place to share ideas, solve problems, give advice and tips and not forgetting... to relax. There are lots of professionals in the SEN area with lots of ideas and experience. This forum allows these professionals to work together to improve the quality of education to their pupils. Finding solutions, sharing ideas, finding software or resources more suitable to your pupils.
SEN Regional Partnership (South West)
The SEN Regional Partnership (South West) is one of 11 Regional Partnerships sponsored by the Department for Education and Skills. The aim of the Partnerships is to help redress - through collaborative planning and working - the variations across the country in the quality and way we provide for pupils with similar special educational needs.
Sense is the UK's leading organisation for people who are deafblind or have associated disabilities.
Lots of downloadable files and interesting games
SERSEN - South East Region SEN Regional Partnership
The LEAs covered by SERSEN are: Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton, Medway and Kent.
Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
Skill is a national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.
Smart Kids are premier designers of quality educational games and resources which are ideal for the classroom or home. You can choose from over 300 great numeracy and literacy products designed to make learning accessible and fun.
South Central SEN Regional Partnership
The SCRIP project covers 13 LEAs from Milton Keynes to the Isle of Wight, comprising part of the Government Office Region of the South East.
Strategic Leadership of ICT (SLICT) for Special School Headt
SLICT is a programme for headteachers that encourages strategic thinking about how to embed ICT to enhance learning and teaching in your school.
Abstracts and contents of recent issues of this NASEN journal
The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) is the national agency and recognised sector body responsible for the training and development of the school workforce.
The DfES website dedicated to Special Educational Needs
The TES is a weekly publication covering the world of primary, secondary and further education, as well as the market leader for teaching job vacancies.
The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD)
BATOD is the ONLY Association representing the interests of teachers of deaf children and young people in the United Kingdom. It includes in its membership representatives from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and from all the many branches of the profession as well as colleagues from overseas.
We work with and for children to help them deal with life's harshest challenges and face the future with confidence
Welsh Joint Education Committee(WJEC)
WJEC provides examinations, assessment, professional development, educational resources, support for adults who wish to learn Welsh and access to youth arts activities. It also provides examinations throughout England.
The General Teaching Council for England, as the professional body for teaching, provides an opportunity for teachers to shape the development of professional practice and policy, and to maintain and set professional standards.
