Special Needs Assessment Profile (Snap) User's Kit

SNAP is a computer-aided diagnostic assessment and profiling package that 'maps' each child's own mix of problems on to an overall matrix of learning, social and personal difficulties. From this, clusters and patterns of weaknesses and strengths help to identify the core features of a child's difficulties - visual, dyspraxic, phonological, attentional or any other of the 15 key deficits targeted. SNAP will be indispensable in helping SENCOs fulfil their assessment responsibilities under the SEN Code of Practice. It provides a structured profile that yields a vital overview at the early stages of 'School Action Plus'.SNAP allows the SENCO to make fuller assessments of - and thus better provision for - the larger number of pupils who remain at the 'School Action' stage, without external referral. The information sheets it generates will also help to strengthen home support.