Resources for Staff

Resources for staff

PolyU is committed to providing a campus environment that is nurturing and inclusive. To support this direction, SAO does not only provide a wide array of quality services and programmes for students with special educational needs (SEN), but also provides training and support to empower fellow staff to jointly provide an equitable learning environment for these students.

Guidelines and communications

• Guidelines on Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs
• Supplementary protocol/ rules governing the conduct of examinations for students with special needs having special examination arrangement
• Network on Students with Special Needs (NSSN)

Training and support

• Training workshops:

• Workshops on Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
         
  Key content of the workshops is as follows:
     - Major features of the specified SEN types and its diagnostic criteria
     - Intervention and treatment available for these SEN types
     - How to create a safe and supportive environment for these SEN types
     - Understand the strategies and accommodations for these SEN types
  

  Workshop 1: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  Date: 3 October 2025 (Friday)  
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: CD302
  
  Workshop 2: Mental Illness (MI)
  Date: 16 September 2025 (Tuesday)  
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: Y301
  
  Workshop 3: Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  Date: 25 September 2025 (Thursday)
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: Y303
  
  Workshop 4: Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD)
  Date: 29 September 2025 (Monday)
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: Y301
  
  Workshop 5: Inclusion and Communicating with Students with Visual Impairment (VI), Hearing Impairment (HI) and Physical Impairment (PI)
  Date: 9 October 2025 (Thursday)
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: Y303

  These workshops will be conducted face-to-face in English. The facilitator would be Mr Kenneth Chow, registered Educational Psychologist.
  
  To register, please complete this e-form. You are welcome to join part or all of these workshops. First-come-first-served. A confirmation email will be sent to successful participants in due course. Should you require any special support for joining these workshops, please indicate in the e-form by the aforementioned deadline. 

• Workshop on Supporting Emotionally Unstable Students

Key content of the workshop is as follow:

- Understand the definitions of students’ emotional crisis in university settings 
- Identify different stage of emotions and respective procedures 
- Understand the de-escalation strategies in stabilising students’ unstable emotion

   Date: 14 October 2025 (Tuesday)
   Time: 10.00 am – 12.00 noon
   Venue: Y301

The workshop will be conducted face-to-face in English. The facilitator would be Mr Kenneth Chow, registered Educational Psychologist.

To register, please complete this e-form. First-come-first-served. A confirmation email will be sent to successful registrants in due course. Should you require any special support for joining this workshop, please indicate in the e-form by the aforementioned deadline.

• E-learning materials for supporting students with special educational needs (Please go to LEARN@PolyU, then login with your NetID and password and choose the course “SRSS E-learning Materials for Supporting Students with Special Needs”)
• 36th Education and Student Development Salon "Overview of Support for Special Educational Needs (SEN) Students at PolyU"

External resources

• Learning more about Disabilities Discrimination Ordinance (Equal Opportunities Commission)
• Materials on Teaching Students with Disabilities (Western University, Canada)
• Online training modules on SEN, Disability and Equality in Higher Education (Module one and two) offered by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Hong Kong Baptist University.  To access, please:

• Click the tag “Universities Login (via HKAF)” to log in to HKMOOC (click HERE)
• Select and complete “Module 1: Integrated Education and Related Ordinances in Hong Kong”, "Module Two: Understanding Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Academic Adjustments" and "Module Three: Inclusive Environments and Workplace"

If you have questions on SEN support, you are welcome to contact SEN officers (Tel: 2766 6800, email: sen.support@polyu.edu.hk).