Here is a series of links to websites featuring the teaching of Art to students with special educational needs. A category of SEN and a short description of content accompany each link.

Great Art Ideas for Special Artists

Colin Smith runs the art program at Noble Park Special Developmental School in Victoria, Australia. The school runs educational programs for students 5 - 18 years old who have moderate to profound disabilities. His 'hands on' approach with the students always leads to creative, individual results. His activities include all the students - everyone in his class creates an individual piece of work and he encourages independence wherever possible.

ICT Capability through Art Activities with Students with Severe Learning Difficulties

The aim of these lessons is to develop skills in using a mouse effectively and the creation and manipulation of screen images. The programs chosen for this were Dazzle plus and Serif Draw. These are simple but powerful graphics programs that can be tailored to the skill level of the individual student. Learning is achieved most effectively when the students find the activities fun and enjoy the end results.

These activities were undertaken with 3 groups of 12 students with severe learning difficulties, within these groups the level of ICT skills possessed by the students varied very widely. There was a special needs assistant available to help with these groups. All the students were within the age range of KS3, although practically all were working at level one. These lessons were undertaken on a RM connect networked suite of 15 machines.

Art and Design Policy · Art and Design Assessment · Art and Design Units of Work

Longmoor School and Residential Unit provide education for pupils with severe learning difficulties, aged 2 to 11. The policy and assessment documents can be downloaded from the Longmoor Curriculum Support Downloads Page.

Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: Art and design

National Curriculum website: Introduction, Responding to pupils’ needs, opportunities and activities at key stage 1-3, performance descriptions.

Art Activities for Children with Disabilities

How art activities can be structured for students with disabilities. Lists relevant ERIC citations with abstracts. Full-text ERIC documents can be obtained in microfiche or paper format from ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education, 1110 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201-5704, USA.

Special Education Visual and Performing Arts

Art, Dance, Drama and Music target-setting for the individual educational plans of learners with special educational needs.

A Bibliography of Art and Special Educational Needs

A thematic reading list of Art/SEN references maintained by David Wilson.

Curriculum Close-Up 6

The Art and Design theme issue of the Royal National Institute for the Blind newsletter.

Art

Statewide Vision Resource Centre links to resources for adapting the curriculum for blind and low Vision Students.

© 2002 D. R. Wilson