ABSTRACT
Special Educational Need (SEN) The term SEN is used when a child, for whatever reason, is deemed to have a greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children the same age. Inclusion has become largely synonymous in some minds with SEN but this may be a fundamental misunderstanding of the term. Its definition encompasses far more than this single strand and more accurately should be concerned with all of the groups of children who may be marginalised by education system. Warnock Report a report chaired by Mary Warnock. It was initiated in 1974, and published in 1978 in response to concern regarding the education of children with SEN. It was a watershed in the history of inclusion, and led to the 1981 Education Act, which saw more children with SEN being educated in mainstream schools. One of the main emotional and intellectual uncertainties lies in the area of terminology in SEN.
