Phonics for Pupils with SEN is a complete, systematic, linguistic phonics programme published in a series of seven books. It offers an innovative and refreshingly simple approach to the teaching of phonics which pupils with special educational needs can easily access to find success. The programme strips phonics down into manageable core elements and provides a wealth of resources to support teachers in teaching reading and spelling. The programme takes a pupil through incremental steps in learning about all the sounds in the English language at the same time as teaching and developing the key skills of blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation and an implicit understanding of ‘how words work’.
 
Written in the light of academic, peer-reviewed research into how children learn to read and spell, the programme has been tested and refined over many years in mainstream and special schools. The multimodal programme begins with the introduction of sounds and letters and works towards pupils reading and spelling words of increasingly complexity, up to those with three and four syllables.
 
Designed specifically for pupils with special educational needs, it includes activities that support and develop phonemic skills in relation to isolation and identification of sounds, and visual perceptual skills in relation to letters and letter combinations (called sound spellings throughout the programme. The activities and worksheets are simple in format with a linear presentation designed to limit distraction, with the additional benefit of being age-neutral.
 
Phonics for SEN enables pupils with a range of special educational needs to find reading and spelling success and is suitable for those with specific learning difficulties, autism, moderate and severe learning difficulties, developmental language disorder, communication needs and complex needs, including pre- and nonverbal pupils and those with significant physical disability.