Identification

How do I know if my child/young person has an ALN?

Always speak to the school’s Additional Learning Needs Co-ordinator as soon as you have any worries or concerns.

Children and young people learn at different rates, and everyone has their own strengths and areas of difficulty with learning. Many pupils will find that their learning needs can be met through the range of strategies that occur naturally as part of the high-quality teaching. In addition to this, the school has universal provision, for example, literacy or numeracy support sessions, which are available to pupils whether they have an ALN or not.

This would mean that a learner with a low reading age may not necessarily have ALN.

However, some children and young people may continue to have difficulties with their learning and may require something different to or in addition to that which occurs within the classroom.

A child/young person has ALN if they are having significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age and they require additional learning provision (ALP) that is not available to others.

A child/young person also has ALN if they have a disability that hinders them from accessing the facilities for learning that is generally available.

Barriers to learning may include, but are not limited to the following areas:

·         Literacy 

·         Numeracy 

·         Behaviour 

·         Medical 

·         Sensory 

·         Specific Learning 

·         Emotional