Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) have the same kind of interests as other children but many learning aids for them do not reflect this. Their teachers have difficulty in finding age-appropriate ones that engage, motivate and stimulate but remain accessible and can be used across different developmental levels. This can result in the use of materials designed for preschool children for teenagers “We need resources with an age-appropriate interest level that could be differentiated down to the children’s developmental level and that’s really tricky” Jane Parry, Deputy Head, Abbots Lea School
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Learning difficulties, online communities, service design, popular culture.
Design a mainstream product, service, environment, print, on-line or other communication which deliberately includes the needs and aspirations of currently excluded groups of people.
Visual communications, product design, interaction design
