DPP Child Care

E1. Describe how pre-school settings can create an inclusive culture for children with disabilities and special educational needs.
(E9. Anti-discriminatory/anti-bias practice)

There are many factors that a pre-school setting needs to consider, to have an adequate culture to meet all the needs of children with disabilities and special educational needs.
One key factor is to ensure the child/children with special needs are not separate from those who are more abled. The setting must to adapt activities for them, make them more accessible, but do not separate them from the rest of the children. Children need accessibility, at their level, have toys showing disabilities such as crutches on dolls etc. pictures of disabilities, such as vision with glasses, hearing, walking crutches, and wheelchairs. Bring in books about special needs and how the child can play and ways they may help others. Vision- larger book print etc., and materials that can help large and find gross motor and critical thinking all these play into the category. The setting need to mainstream the child and make sure everything is accessible, for example the paints in the art area, the blocks in the block area, etc. If vision the labels should be big enough for the child to see pictures also.
Say if the children were doing painting, and there is a SEN Child, who’s fine motor skills are delayed and the child is unable to hold the paint brush or get paint in the brush, then allow them to do hand prints and use their fingers, these could be a stimulating, sensory experience, encouraging the development of the fine motor skills by using hand and it is inclusive.
Another example: Outdoor play. A setting should have outdoor toys for less abled