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Barriers to learning
A boy, covered in a blanket, being wheeled along a school corridor

The disabilities of pupils will present barriers to their learning. These will have a strong influence on your planning whether you're a teacher working with pupils with LDD in a mainstream setting or in a special school.


Here you will begin to consider how you would need to address these barriers through your planning. You will be looking at:

  • Communication and Interaction Difficulties
  • Cognition and Learning Difficulties
  • Behaviour, Social and Emotional Difficulties
  • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
Four areas of disability

The table below delineates the four areas of disability from the SEN Code of Practice 2001.


Areas of disability table

Watch again this montage of a day in a special school and identify the barriers to learning that you notice.


Now check your answers against the list in the attached document.


Barriers to learning
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