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TYPES OF SEN​

Below you will find a lot of information that parents want to know about types of Special Educational Needs (SEN).

We have set out the main types that we usually come across in an alphabetical​ order, to try to make it helpful and quick for parents to find what they are looking for easily, but please remember that you may find that the information that you are looking for actually straddles more than one section:

Please note that we have helped parents of children with all these Types of SEN.
​(These pages were researched and written ourselves ​to save people time looking for information themselves).

​A-H

• Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum (ACC) 
• ADHD 
• Angelman Syndrome 
• Aniridia 
• ​Anorexia Nervosa
• Anxiety Disorder
• Aphasia 
• Apraxia 
• Arthritis 
• Asperger Syndrome 
• Asthma 
• Attachment Disorder 
• Atypical Autism 
• Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) 

• Autism (ASD) 
• Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD, formerly EBD)
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) 
• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
• Brain Injury
• Bulimia
• Cerebellar Ataxia 
• Cerebral Palsy (CP) 
• Challenging Behaviour
• Conduct Disorder
• Crohn's Disease 
• Cystic Fibrosis (CF) 
• Developmental Delay 
• Diabetes 
• Down's Syndrome 
• Duane Syndrome
• Dysarthria 
• Dyscalculia 
• Dysgraphia 
• Dyslexia 
• Dysnomia 
• Dysplasia 
• Dyspraxia 
• Echolalia 
• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome 
• Emotional Literacy 
• Epilepsy 
• Fragile X Syndrome 
• Global Developmental Delay 
• Glue Ear 
• Graphomotor Skills
• Guillain Barré 
• Hearing Impairment (HI) 
• Heller's Syndrome 
• Hydrocephalus 
• Hyperacusis 
• Hyperlexia 
• Hypermobility
• Hypotonia ​​

I-Z

• Irlen Syndrome/Scotopic Sensitivity 
• Landau Kleffner Syndrome 
• Learning Difficulties 
• Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD) 
• Mood Disorder 
• Mowat-Wilson Syndrome
• Multi-Sensory Impairment (MSI) 
• Muscular Dystrophy 
• Neurofibromatosis 
• Noonan Syndrome 
• Non-Verbal Learning Difficulties (NLD) 
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) 
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) 
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) (Brittle Bone Disease) 
• Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) 
• Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) 
• Peter's Anomaly 
• Physical Disability (PD) 
• Pica
• Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) 
• Prader-Willi Syndrome 
• Proprioception 
• Rett Syndrome 
• Scoliosis 
• Selective Mutism 
• Semantic Pragmatic Disorder 
• Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) 
• Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) 
• Sickle Cell Anaemia 
• Smith-Magenis Syndrome
• Social Skills 
• Sotos Syndrome 
• Speech and Language Disorder 
• Spina Bifida 
• Tactile Defensiveness 
• Tourette's Syndrome 
• Turner Syndrome 
• Ulcerative Colitis 
• Usher Syndrome
• Visual Impairment 
• Waardenburg Syndrome 
• Williams Syndrome 
• Working Memory
• Worster-Drought Syndrome (WDS)

You can find out more about different types of SEN through our Pinterest site at the end of each page.