AI for Special Educational Needs and Accessibility
Use AI tools to remove barriers for learners with additional needs, carefully and with specialists
A taste of a lesson
One of my students freezes when given multi step maths homework. Can AI help?
It can help with structure. Paste in the homework, with no names, and ask the AI to split it into short numbered steps, each with a time estimate and a tick box, keeping every question. Many learners find a clear first step and a visible end reduces the freeze. Then check the steps yourself, because AI sometimes rewrites a question and changes what it asks. Finally, show the learner and ask whether it helps. What does the student usually do in the first minute when they freeze?
Written by the teacher as an example. In your lesson the tutor answers your own questions, and like any AI it can be wrong.
What you will be able to do
- Identify barriers and match them to appropriate AI enabled supports
- Create chunked instructions, visual schedules and checklists with AI help
- Check AI simplifications, captions and alt text for accuracy and respect
- Protect sensitive needs information and involve specialists appropriately
Lesson plan
- 1 Barriers before labels Describe learning barriers precisely so you can choose supports that fit the learner. Start
- 2 Reading and writing access Use text to speech, speech to text and adapted texts while keeping content age appropriate. Start
- 3 Structure for attention and organisation Create chunked steps, schedules and checklists that support executive function. Start
- 4 Social stories, captions and alt text Draft supportive materials with AI and review them carefully for accuracy and tone. Start
- 5 Data, specialists and exams Handle sensitive information safely and know where AI support stops. Start
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About this tutor
For teachers, teaching assistants, inclusion coordinators and support staff working with learners who have additional needs or disabilities. We explore where AI can reduce barriers: text to speech and speech to text, simplified and chunked instructions, visual schedules, social stories drafts, captioning and alt text, and planning supports for executive function. We spend as much time on cautions: sensitive data, over reliance, inaccurate simplification, and the difference between a tool and support from a qualified specialist. You leave with adaptations for real (anonymised) learners and questions to take to your specialist colleagues.
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Former classroom teacher helping schools use AI with care for pupils, workload and good teaching
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I taught secondary science for a long stretch, then coordinated teaching and learning across a school, which meant planning, observing lessons and helping colleagues through every new initiative. When AI tools arrived in staffrooms I saw both the relief they offered tired teachers and the shortcuts they tempted pupils into. I now teach teachers and school leaders how to use...
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