EPV Approved - Special Educational Needs - A Toolkit  Summer Course 2025

A highly practical course intended to help the Special Education Teacher or mainstream class teacher teach and plan for children with additional needs. Over the course of the week, we will look at the continuum of support, use assessments to identify priority needs, examine the psychologist's report to help us use the information to set targets, look at an overview of additional needs with possible differentiation techniques to help, and plan the student support plan. 

The course is suitable for Special Education Teachers and for any teacher who has a child with an additional need in their class.

Content includes an overview of

• Various Special Educational Needs
• the continuum of support
• diagnostic testing
• understanding the psychologist's report
• communication needs in the classroom
• sensory needs and behaviour as a form of communication
• specific learning difficulties in literacy and numeracy
• using ICT as a learning tool for children with additional needs.

Upon completion of this course, Teachers will be equipped with the knowledge and the confidence to apply in their classroom what they have learned in this course and will be provided with "A Took Kit of Resources"  to take with them to further their knowledge and expertise in the area of Special Educational Needs.

Presented by:  Annette Ormond

Guest Speakers to be announced.

Dates: Monday 7th July to Friday 11th July 2025

Times: 9.30 am to 2.00 pm

Cost: €50.00. Please note all our summer courses are booked on the condition that the course fee is non-refundable. Course Fees are not transferrable to another teacher. Unfortunately, if you wish to cancel your place on one of our courses or you are unable to attend the course, we are not in a position to refund fees. The course fee can only be refunded if the Education Centre cancels the course.

All Summer Courses qualify for 3 EPV days provided you complete the full course over 5 days. 

Wexford Education Support Centre

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