Identification & Assessment of SEND

Identification & Assessment of SEND

How does the school identify and assess Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities?

In school we use a variety of different ways to assess whether a pupil has SEND.  Some of these include:

• Observations

• School based test results and consideration of progress data

• Information from parents and carers & home visits

• Information from the pupil

• Specialised assessments carried out by members of the school’s support services/SENCO, for example the York Assessment of Reading Comprehension (YARC) to assess reading ability, Vanderbilt questionnaires to assess potential ADHD, CAST/ASSQ questionnaires to assess potential autism.

• Information from previous schools or settings​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

• Results from end of key stage assessments

• Discussions with adults who work with the pupil

• Information/referrals from doctors, paediatricians or other medical personnel.

Consideration of other factors eg. EAL, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES eg. bereavement), LAC/POST LAC status & Early Help support