Inclusive Curricula: Personal, Social and Health Education and Citizenship and Special Educational Needs

Here is a series of links to websites featuring the teaching of Personal, Social and Health Education and Citizenship to students with special educational needs. A category of SEN and a short description of content accompany each link.

Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: Personal, Social and Health Education and Citizenship

Special Educational Needs

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

Special Education Health

Special Educational Needs

Health Education target-setting for the individual educational plans of learners with special educational needs.

Life skills for students with mental retardation

Mental retardation, mild mental retardation, moderate mental retardation, severe mental retardation, developmental disabilities, downs syndrome

Information about teaching life skills to students who are mentally retarded. 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.

Sex education and students with disabilities

Special Educational Needs

Information on sexual education for students who are mentally retarded. 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.

Citizenship Education for Young People with Special Educational Needs: A Teaching Resource

Severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties

The resource, which is available is the result of a year long project. The activities within it were developed and written up by eleven teachers then piloted in a number of schools. The activities are specifically targeted at pupils with severe and profound and multiple learning difficulties (SLD and PMLD) between the ages of 11 and 16 but are suitable for a wider ability and age range.

Sex Education Policy

Severe Learning Difficulties

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

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Visual Impairment

The PSHE (Sex and Relationships Education) theme issue of the Royal National Institute for the Blind newsletter.

© 2004 D. R. Wilson