Here is a series of links to websites featuring the teaching of Art to students with special educational needs. A category of SEN and a short description of content accompany each link.
Great Art Ideas for Special Artists
Moderate, Severe and Profound Learning Difficulties
Colin Smith runs the art program at Noble Park Special Developmental School in Victoria, Australia. The school runs educational programs for students 5 - 18 years old who have moderate to profound disabilities. His 'hands on' approach with the students always leads to creative, individual results. His activities include all the students - everyone in his class creates an individual piece of work and he encourages independence wherever possible.
ICT Capability through Art Activities with Students with Severe Learning Difficulties
Severe Learning Difficulties
The aim of these lessons is to develop skills in using a mouse effectively and the creation and manipulation of screen images. The programs chosen for this were Dazzle plus and Serif Draw. These are simple but powerful graphics programs that can be tailored to the skill level of the individual student. Learning is achieved most effectively when the students find the activities fun and enjoy the end results.
These activities were undertaken with 3 groups of 12 students with severe learning difficulties, within these groups the level of ICT skills possessed by the students varied very widely. There was a special needs assistant available to help with these groups. All the students were within the age range of KS3, although practically all were working at level one. These lessons were undertaken on a RM connect networked suite of 15 machines.
Special Educational Needs
National Curriculum website: Introduction, Responding to pupils' needs, opportunities and activities at key stage 1-3, performance descriptions.
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