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Lessons for successful home schooling of children with SEND

The recently published research from the University of Sussex, highlights that for some children with special education needs and/or disabilities (SEND), learning at home during the lockdowns of the past year has been a positive experience.
Parents often praised schools’ flexible approaches to learning across a challenging year. Picture: Halfpoint/Adobe Stock
Parents often praised schools’ flexible approaches to learning across a challenging year. Picture: Halfpoint/Adobe Stock

The authors of Happier In His Own Clothes: Post-pandemic Possibilities for Education for Children With SEND, go on to suggest that post-Covid, there are opportunities to create a more flexible and responsive school system.

While this is something to aspire to, and would be positive for all children not only those identified with SEND, important questions need to be considered first, including:

There is a world of difference between children, with or without SEND, being home-schooled because of an active and positive choice made by their parents or carers, hopefully with the child’s agreement, and being home-schooled because their parents or carers do not have the confidence that their needs will be met through the in-school options.

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