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How can I find out more? – Communication and Interaction

Useful links, related assessments and training within the Communication and Interaction area of need

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Somerset’s Graduated Response Tool: Step by step

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Somerset’s Graduated Response Tool: Step by step

The purpose of this pathway is to ensure every child and young person in a Somerset school receives the support they are entitled to

1Statutory Special Educational Needs (SEN) information

  1. Statutory Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) information

2Understanding the Graduated Response

  1. Somerset Inclusion Tool (SIT)
  2. What is the Graduated Response?
  3. The Assess, Plan, Do, Review Cycle
  4. Screening and Assessment Tools as part of the APDR process
  5. Education, Health and Care Plans (EHC plans)

3Funding

  1. Funding
  2. Available funding for SEN

4Expectations for Teachers, Governors, SENCOs and Headteachers

  1. What different people in schools should do
  2. School Governors’ responsibilities
  3. Headteachers’ responsibilities
  4. Teachers’ responsibilities
  5. SENCOs’ responsibilities

5Expectations for Whole School Inclusion

  1. Expectations for Whole School Inclusion

6Quick checkers

  1. Quick Checker – Cognition and Learning
  2. Quick Checker – Communication and Interaction
  3. Quick Checker – Sensory and Physical
  4. Quick Checker – Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)

7Inclusion for each Broad Area of Need

Information about the four areas of need set out in the Code of Practice

  1. Inclusion for each Broad Area of Need

8Cognition and Learning

  1. Universal – Cognition and Learning
  2. SEN support – Cognition and Learning
  3. How can I find out more? – Cognition and Learning

9Communication and Interaction

  1. Universal – Communication and Interaction
  2. SEN Support – Communication and Interaction
  3. How can I find out more? – Communication and Interaction

10Sensory and Physical

  1. Universal – Sensory and Physical
  2. SEN Support – Sensory and Physical
  3. How can I find out more? – Sensory and Physical

11Social, Emotional and Mental Health

  1. Universal – Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)
  2. SEN support – Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)
  3. How can I find out more? – Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)

12Graduated Response Tool – Complex Medical Needs

  1. Graduated Response Tool – Complex Medical Needs

13Supporting tools, documents and signposting

  1. Supporting tools, documents and signposting

Profiles

Other

School Assessment

Who else can help

  • Somerset Inclusion Advice Line 0300 123 2224
  • Talk to your child or young person’s class teacher, they may be able to offer support and advice. Every school has a SENCOand you can arrange to discuss your concerns with them
  • Childrens Autism Outreach Team (CAOT) provides up to 13 years of support for children and young people and their families with an Autism diagnosis
  • Children and Young People’s Therapy Service telephone advice line: 0303 033 3002 – Monday to Thursday 9am to 12pm
  • Speech and Language UK
  • NAPLIC – an organisation of teachers, speech and language therapists and other professional
  • RADLD – raising awareness of developmental language disorder
  • The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering – helps children and young people and adults who stammer
  • British Stammering Association
  • NAS – National Autistic Society
  • AFASIC – supports and provides information for families with children and young people who have speech language and communication needs with a focus on developmental language disorder (DLD)
  • Speech and Language Therapy in Somerset – information and referral guide on the Local Offer here

information

Also refer to the Pre Assessment Pathway for Neurodiversity Interventions: Graduated Response which outlines possible interventions, which after careful screening for special education needs, should be implemented immediately rather than waiting for a possible diagnosis of autism or ADHD.

Further information can also be found on Continuing to support neurodivergence page.

Training

Last updated: July 8, 2025

Next review due: January 8, 2026

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