Special needs more likely for boys, study finds
Almost one in four primary school boys in England has special educational needs (SEN), a government report finds.
More than 41,000 primary school boys (2%) have a statement of needs and 489,250 (23.4%) have unstatemented needs.
This compares to 15,600 SEN girls (0.8%) with statements and 269,890 girls (13.5%) without a statement.
Last month Ofsted said thousands of pupils were wrongly labelled as having special educational needs.
All these pupils required, inspectors said, was better teaching and support.
The Ofsted report found as many as half of all pupils identified for School Action, the lowest SEN category, would not be identified as having these needs if schools focused on improving teaching and learning.
Read more here: BBC News – Special needs more likely for boys, study finds.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.