ADHD/executive function
ADHD/executive-function SEND Need
SEND Area: Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)
Wyvern's SEND approach combines high-quality teaching, reasonable adjustments, and inclusive resourcing. What's good for SEND is good for all.
SEND pathway
Use two connected knowledge bases for SEND support: one for behaviour strategies with SEND needs shown, and one for SEND learning strategies. Together they support students by reducing barriers through practical adjustments, access planning, inclusive routines, and behaviour approaches that help students stay engaged in learning.
For barriers linked to Pupil Premium, looked-after context, young carers, EAL, service children, bereavement/trauma, or housing insecurity, use the Vulnerability section.
Open Vulnerability guidanceProfile, behaviour, and learning routes on each card
ADHD/executive-function SEND Need
SEND Area: Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)
Anxiety-related presentation SEND Need
SEND Area: Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)
ASC/ASD SEND Need (Autism Spectrum Condition)
SEND Area: Communication and interaction
Attachment/relational vulnerability SEND Need
SEND Area: Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)
DCD/dyspraxia learning-impact SEND Need
SEND Area: Cognition and learning
Demand-avoidant presentation SEND Need
SEND Area: Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) presentation SEND Need
SEND Area: Communication and interaction
Dyscalculia SEND Need
SEND Area: Cognition and learning
Dysgraphia/written-expression difficulty SEND Need
SEND Area: Cognition and learning
Dyslexia SEND Need
SEND Area: Cognition and learning
EBSA/school-avoidance presentation SEND Need
SEND Area: Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)
Emotion-regulation difficulty SEND Need
SEND Area: Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)
Hearing impairment (HI) SEND Need
SEND Area: Sensory and/or physical
Low mood/depressive presentation SEND Need (classroom behaviour impact)
SEND Area: Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)
Medical-needs fatigue/pain classroom-impact SEND Need
SEND Area: Sensory and/or physical
Physical disability (PD) SEND Need
SEND Area: Sensory and/or physical
Selective mutism presentation SEND Need
SEND Area: Communication and interaction
Sensory processing difference SEND Need
SEND Area: Sensory and/or physical
Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) SEND Need
SEND Area: Communication and interaction
Slow processing/task-completion presentation SEND Need
SEND Area: Cognition and learning
Social communication/pragmatic language SEND Need
SEND Area: Communication and interaction
Speech fluency/stammering presentation SEND Need
SEND Area: Communication and interaction
Tic/Tourette presentation SEND Need
SEND Area: Sensory and/or physical
Trauma-background SEND Need (contextual; not a SEND diagnosis label)
SEND Area: Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)
Visual impairment (VI) SEND Need
SEND Area: Sensory and/or physical
Working-memory and processing-speed SEND Need
SEND Area: Cognition and learning
Use this pathway when you want area-level guidance before selecting a specific SEND need.
Language and interaction needs.
Includes 6 SEND Need profiles.
Includes ASC/ASD, SLCN, DLD, social communication, speech fluency, and selective mutism profiles. Typical barriers include language load, social interpretation, and communication fluency.
Processing, memory, and access needs.
Includes 6 SEND Need profiles.
Includes dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, DCD/dyspraxia, working memory, and slow processing profiles. Typical barriers include literacy, memory load, sequencing, and task completion.
Regulation and relational needs.
Includes 8 SEND Need profiles.
Includes ADHD/executive function, anxiety, emotion regulation, attachment, trauma-background presentation, EBSA, low mood, and demand-avoidant profiles. Typical barriers include regulation, readiness, and relational safety.
Sensory, physical, fatigue, and access needs.
Includes 6 SEND Need profiles.
Includes hearing, visual, physical, sensory processing, tic/Tourette, and medical-needs profiles. Typical barriers include access, sensory load, fatigue, and physical participation.
We treat OAP as universal SEND support. These high-quality classroom strategies help students with identified SEND, and also benefit most other learners, including those with emerging or as-yet unidentified needs.
View OAP learning strategiesNew non-strategy pages that hold OAP/APDR/SENCo/whole-school content from the integrated LA guidance documents.
Universal systems
Whole-class and whole-school OAP planning: learning space conditions, pedagogical principles, language/access routines, and OAP consistency checks.
Open guidanceGraduated approach
Assess-Plan-Do-Review checklists for deciding when to strengthen OAP, add targeted support, or escalate to specialist input.
Open guidanceSystems and consistency
Thresholding, implementation fidelity, joined-up attendance/behaviour/learning planning, and inclusion-focused monitoring.
Open guidanceWhole-school inclusion
Environment, culture, staff skills, HQIT, and leadership conditions needed to make inclusive practice ordinary.
Open guidance