STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND SCIENCE

Science programmes need to be responsive to all students, including those with special learning needs. This group is diverse and includes students with physical and/or mental disabilities, with specific learning difficulties, and those students yet to achieve fluency in English.

An inclusive curriculum in science for these students is one where:

• they, their peers, their teachers, their families, and the wider community work together to plan and deliver programmes which meet their particular learning needs;
• they are given encouragement and support to enable them to participate as fully as possible;
• appropriate resources, equipment, and technology are used to support their learning.