Special Educational Needs;Disabilities and Inclusion BA(Hons)/Top-Up BA(Hons)

BA(Hons)/Top-Up-BA(Hons)

Your course

This is an essential course for anyone interested in a career working with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Children and young people with SEND have the right to educational support that values and respects them as learners, and takes account of their individual requirements. On this course, you will examine how policy and legislation have contributed to the educational and social inclusion of children and young people with SEND. You will investigate theories of development and learning, and consider how these can be used to underpin practice in supporting these learners.

To help you put theory into practice, you’ll complete a minimum of 200 hours in placement across the first two years of study. We’ll work with you to find the type of placement suitable for your needs and the age group you are most interested in working with.

Example modules

• SEND: Understanding Policy and Practice • Safeguarding Children and Young People • Child Development and SEND • Supporting Individual Learning Needs

Your future

Whether you are interesting in pursuing a career in teaching, support work, the charitable sector, within Local Authorities, early years, further education or many other possibilities, this course will equip you with the knowledge and practical experience you need. Graduates may consider progression on to postgraduate study, such as our Education (Special Educational Needs) MA.

This course is a recognised progression route on to primary teacher training courses.

Course info

Full time

Course length:

3 years full-time*

Entry requirements:

BBC/DMM/112

Additional criteria:

*If you are looking for part-time study, please see our Education (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Inclusion) BA(Hons) course information on page 9 of this brochure.

Top-Up BA(Hons)

Course length:

1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Entry requirements:

This course represents the final year of an undergraduate degree.

You will normally have a HND or equivalent/foundation degree.

Each application will be considered on an individual basis.

My degree is teaching me the essentials for SEN and how to work with children that have special needs and disabilities. It is also helping me to understand the hardships that some of these children go through and how I can change that in the future. After I finish my degree, I am planning on applying for my PGCE at Huddersfield to become a qualified teacher and then start working as a SEN teacher/ teaching assistant and work my way up to a place where I can make a difference to students who previously would have had no support.

Katrina Fisher, graduates from Special Educational Needs; Disabilities and Inclusion BA(Hons) in 2023