Special needs pupils to benefit from new mobile assesment unit (From Hampshire Chronicle)

Special needs pupils to benefit from new mobile assesment unit

6:00pm Friday 18th September 2009 in

• Skip social links
• Print
• Email
• Comments(0)

HAMPSHIRE'S schools and colleges are set to benefit from the UK's first mobile assessment unit for students with special needs.

The mobile trailer will provide hundreds of students with learning difficulties and disabilities with an expert assessment of their needs and capabilities from a trailer.

The scheme is run by Treloars, the Alton based School and College for young people with disabilities and is expected to be rolled out across the country in late 2010.

Bob Bayley, Business Development Director for Treloar's Direct, said: "The Government's inclusion policy means an increasing number of disabled young people and pupils with learning difficulties are in mainstream education.

"While for many there is adequate provision, for others there is a need for more appropriate help especially relating to speech and language therapy and alternative and augmentative communication equipment.

"For these young people, access to experts is often difficult to find and hard to achieve in the necessary timeframe. Treloar's Direct is a unique service that will help local authorities serve the mobility and communication needs of a wide community of young people across the country."