Specialist Education has streams of specialist programmes focusing on the development of significant and essential skills for students with special needs. This is aimed at supporting each student with what they will need to learn to be successful and confident.
What are Skills for Students with Special Needs?
Special Needs Skills for Students are designed to give a student diagnosed with learning differences or disabilities the skills they need both in and out of the classroom. Examples include organisational skills, time management, communication, social interaction, and many more things that would be adapted to whatever that student’s needs are.
Our Services Include:
Personalised Learning Plans: Creating strategies to suit the learning style of every student.
Time Management: Helping students learn to organize their tasks and meet deadlines.
Social Skills Development: It helps students to share and express themselves confidently among other people.
Academic Assistance: Assistance with academia such as referencing, structuring, research, spelling and grammar.
Essential Skill-Building Programmes for Special Needs Students
Our programmes emphasize teaching the Skills for Special Needs Students that will best enable them to excel academically, socially, and emotionally. We build on each person’s strengths to ensure they develop into a confident individual in their own eyes, supported along the way. Some of the most critical skills that we specialize in are:
Communication: Enables children to express needs, wants, and thoughts, establish relationships, and participate in society. Augmentative communication methods can assist children who are non-verbal.
Activities of Daily Living (ADL): Includes basic skills like eating, bathing, and dressing. Children develop the ability to carry out these activities independently as they grow.
Home Management: Engagement with everyday activities including cleaning, cooking, and planning encourages independence and self-worth.
Functional Mathematics: For independent living, i.e., reading time, counting money, and balancing a bank account.
Functional Reading: Reading skills from their name, through reading stories and significant signs or places around them.
Recognizing Emotions and Emotional Control: Identifying facial expressions and feelings, and gaining the skill of controlling feelings when interacting with other people.
Social Skills: Teaching appropriate social interaction, eye contact, and conversation skills to increase social interaction and reduce isolation.
Leisure and Recreational Skills: Activities that promote self-expression and stress reduction, which help develop a sense of self.
Prevocational/Vocational Skills: Educating children to become employable, with a focus on transferable skills that enable living a productive life.
Community Living: Encouraging participation in community life to develop feelings of belongingness and being part of it.
Why Choose Specialist Education?
Experienced Team: Experienced working with special needs students, therefore understanding their special challenges.
Unique Approach: Individual approaches to each case, so it meets every student’s needs and gets him or her the right assistance.
Comforting and Nurturing Environment: Students feel free and motivated in their own comfort zones.
Contact Us Today
If you are looking for programmes to develop Skills for Special Needs Students, we are here to help. Please contact us today to find out more about how we can support your child in their growth and success.