Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
Inclusive Online Learning
EDClass explicitly supports pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities as our teaching, learning and safeguarded platform aims to provide a learning experience that is both personalised and accessible, adapting to the individual learning styles of students with SEND.
EDClass accommodates all learners, including those identified with SEND. Our overarching goal is to provide equitable educational opportunities and foster fully inclusive education, achieved through collaboration with educators and SEND specialists to ensure the platform meets their unique needs.
EDClass and Supporting Students with SEND​
Since being accredited by the Department for Education in 2024, our learning platform functions as a virtual learning classroom with teaching, safeguarding and engagement where the need is particularly acute for vulnerable learners, including those identified with SEND, students experiencing mental health challenges (often necessitating involvement with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services CAMHS), and individuals with EHCPs SEND Support or IEP Plans.
For your most vulnerable learners in our society, EDClass equips them with live teachers, SEND specialists, DSLs, DDSLs and a range of human resources designed to enhance outcomes in learning, assessment, and educational delivery for learners with complex needs.
For your organisation, EDClass, focuses specifically to create clear collaborative capabilities and effectiveness in supporting students with SEND, those with mental health needs, and learners with EHCPs.
Where these student groups frequently encounter barriers within traditional school environments. Legislative frameworks, such as the requirement for Local Authorities, schools and MATS to fulfil Section 19 duties regarding the education of children unable to attend school, further emphasises the necessity for high-quality alternative options.
Our approach addresses the challenges faced by students who are school refusers or non-attenders. We facilitate continuity in their education, as they often face the most complex challenges such as SEND, working with CAMHS and applying for or maintaining an Education Health and Care Plan.
Deptford Green School
Loreto High School
Personalised Learning and Curriculum Adaptation
Personalisation is the cornerstone of the EDClass approach for all learners, including those with SEND. The platform offers tailored learning pathways designed to cater to individual learner needs and learning goals, enabling learners to progress at their own pace.
These pathways match your school curriculum and the reasonable adjustments SEND learners may need. Unlike other providers, EDClass utilises this to design to mirror any scheme of work and schedule for each learner.
Personalisation and unique teaching delivery is personalised to benefit and cater for every need. This involves adapting the core curriculum where deemed appropriate, considering the constraints of time and resources.
EDClass also facilitates this by using diagnostic assessments in English, Science and Maths to identify specific knowledge gaps and strengths, which then inform the generation of personalised lesson sequences with live scheduled teaching sessions for the students. We have constant diagnostic assessments, tests and continuous assessment to scaffold for and stretch and challenge any learner.
EDClass teachers tailor the live sessions, learning pathways, scheduled classrooms, pre-recorded lessons, and learning activities when considering the complex needs of individual learners. Information regarding a learner’s SEND needs, collected during onboarding, is intended to direct teaching staff in differentiating their approaches during online interactions and supervision.
Accessibility Features and Specific Tools for SEND Learners
Our teachers constantly work with our SEND students to offer lessons that are fundamentally adapted and differentiated to meet diverse cognitive needs, which allow flexible pacing through individualised pathways, and assessment which offer differentiation for each individual.
To support accessibility, our platform has several specific features integrated into its features. These include options for users to customise fonts, coloured backgrounds layouts, as well as a text-to-speech functionality to read on-screen content aloud.
The platform employs multi-sensory learning tools, incorporating engaging videos, interactive activities, and audio-based lessons to cater to a diverse range of learning preferences with many SEND strategies inbuilt within them. Additionally, emphasis is placed on providing a structured, clear, and predictable platform environment.
This design choice is intended to aid student focus and potentially reduce anxiety, which can be particularly beneficial for some learners with particular SEND needs.
These primary mechanisms within our platform fully support SEND learners so that they are fully immersed into the system where the features of personalised learning pathways, the accessibility options (customisable fonts, text-to-speech, subtitles, expanding font sizes, personalise screen resolution and colours), and the structured platform environment itself are also personalised to each individual.
Our support for SEND is embedded within the core platform functionalities, and like our safeguarding, teaching and learning is at the heart of everything we do.
Effective Online Learning Support for Learners with SEND, SEMH Needs and EHCPs
EDClass provides targeted online alternative provision, delivering crucial support and positive impacts for with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), those engaging with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and learners with SEND Support and Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).
By implementing these strategies, EDClass provides impactful, flexible, and supportive online education, directly addressing the complex needs of learners engaged with SEND services, CAMHS, and those with EHCPs.
Woodkirk Academy
John Whitgift Academy
Tailored Online Learning Strategies for Specific SEND Needs
EDClass recognises that students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities require more than just access to online learning; they need strategies specifically designed to address their unique challenges.
Our approach involves deeply understanding and overcoming the barriers associated with conditions like ADHD, Autism (ASC), Dyslexia, MLD, SEMH, and sensory impairments, and deploying tailored online strategies within our platform.
This personalisation is key to ensuring that each learner can engage effectively and make meaningful progress in a supportive environment.
For instance, to support students with ADHD who may struggle with focus, EDClass incorporates short, interactive learning sessions, gamification facilities, and the flexibility for movement breaks.
For learners with Autism, we provide a predictable structure and customisable interface options to minimise sensory overload and anxiety, alongside clear, direct communication.
Accessibility is paramount for conditions like Dyslexia or visual/hearing impairments, where built-in tools such as text-to-speech, adjustable fonts, magnification, captions, and transcripts are readily available.
Our qualified teachers and SEND specialists are trained to utilise these features and adapt their teaching methods accordingly.
Ultimately, tailored strategies at EDClass extend across the majority of SEND categories, whether it involves breaking down content into manageable steps for learners with MLD, providing a nurturing and flexible space for those with SEMH needs, or offering structured guidance, assistive technology and multifaceted approaches for learners with Dyspraxia or Dyscalculia.
This commitment to adapting our online provision, backed by our specialist SEND team and robust safeguarding framework, ensures that students receive targeted support designed not just for access, but for genuine educational success and wellbeing. Below shows how we address each specific SEND.
