What is meant by special educational needs? How and by whom is it determined? You should also outline some of the issues involved in deciding how these needs might best be met?

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Special Education Needs (SEN ) refers to that extra or different wants of children will have due to the fact that such experience unusual learning difficulties something which lead to such children to experience difficulties not only in learning but also having an equal access to education , training and even work opportunity . Besides , language difficulties such children experience , numerous challenges , difficulties in cognitive process , and behavioral difficulties as well as psychomotor difficulties

By addressing SEN main goals , every child who experiences SEN , would be

guaranteed a chance to develop . Professionals in SEN increases the chances of such children of becoming into productive adults with increased chances of accessing and receiving quality and well deserved training and education as well as getting meaningful employment

In achieving the above goals , children with SEN depend largely on their parents or caretakers who are overly responsible for making decisions affecting the children directly . The teachers as well as other professionals with whom children with SEN interact with also contribute to determining what kind of transition the children will have . The other group which plays a critical role in the process of transition is the SEN facilitators and the schools where children attend school . The government is mandated to deal with policy issues which affect the lives of children with SEN

Good policies will empower those with SEN while bad policies may make it even hard for such children to make it to school

Those who are tasked to work with SEN children need to have a positive attitude towards their job as a negative attitude can bar a parent teacher of a facilitator from being effective in executing functions directed towards helping out a SEN child

Teachers , facilitators , caretakers , parents are the people who mostly are left to help children overcome difficulties . Therefore there is a need for the above group of people to be well versed with the main SEN needs which include communication and interaction , children with SEN are more likely to experience difficulties in communication (Lee Dickson ,1999 .10-46 . Such children delay in their ability to develop speech . Such a delay takes a quality care taker , a dedicated parent , and a committed facilitator to handle . The fact that the caretakers may fail to be patient with these children may make the task in of assisting SEN children an uphill one

However with the right attitude and predisposition , helping out SNE proves to be just a task like any other . It is even made easier by the fact that , the difficulties in speech development is only a temporary one , in fact it entails a delay which costs no more than patience to solve . Therefore parents of the SEN children should assist children with speech and communication by assisting the children with assignments and schoolwork , by helping such children to read , write as well as understand puzzling information , the facilitators , the teachers as well as parents accomplish are a very critical people in assisting such children to meat their learning...