List Of Terminology For Inclusive Learning And Teaching

Terms Related To Inclusive Learning And Teaching In South Africa

A List Of Terminology And Definitions

These definitions offer valuable insights into terminology relevant to inclusive education, support strategies, and mechanisms ensuring learners with disabilities receive essential assistance and resources for development.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC):

AAC strategies describe how individuals supplement communication when speech isn't clear enough to be understood. This covers various methods from gestures to assistive devices.

Barriers to Learning:

Difficulties within the education system, learning sites, or learners themselves hindering access to learning and development.

Category of Disability:

Organizer for schools, funding, and post-provisioning in special education. Includes categories like multiply disabled, deaf, blind, and more.

Curriculum Differentiation:

Modifying curriculum based on learners' abilities and styles. Essential for flexible curriculum delivery.

Curriculum Adaptation:

Making curriculum accessible – materials, environment, assessment – for diverse learners' needs.

District Based Support Teams (DBST):

Groups of professionals promoting inclusive education through training, resource distribution, barrier identification, leadership, and more.

Full-Service Schools (FSS):

Ordinary schools with resources to address various barriers to learning within inclusive settings.

Institution Level Support Teams (ILSTs):

Teams from institutions providing coordinated support services for learners, educators, and schools.

Individual Support Plan:

Plan for learners needing extra support or opportunities, developed by educators with parents and the Institution-level Support Team.

Lead Professional:

Member of DBST coordinating assessment, support decisions, provision, and monitoring for learners.

Level of Support Needs:

Scope and intensity of support needed, essential for school, funding, and post-provisioning in inclusive education.

Reasonable Accommodation:

Appropriate adjustments ensuring equal rights and freedoms for persons with disabilities.

Special Schools (SSs):

Institutions equipped for full/part-time education of learners requiring intensive support.

Special Schools/Resource Centres (SpS/RCs):

Institutions transformed to support high-intensity needs, offering services to ordinary and full-service schools.

Support Needs Assessment (SNA):

Process determining additional support required, guided by SNA form sections.

Support Package:

Collection of resources addressing barriers identified in child or school. Ranges from level 1 to level 5 in intensity and variety.

Support Programmes:

Structured interventions delivered at schools within set time frames, aimed at assisting diverse learners.

Reference Document For This Glossary

GUIDELINES FOR INCLUSIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING (2010): EDUCATION WHITE PAPER 6 SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND TRAINING SYSTEM