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: 8 September 2026 (Tuesday)
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: FJ302

  Workshop 2: Mental Illness (MI)

  Date: 16 September 2026 (Wednesday) 
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: BC303

  Workshop 3: Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

  Date: 22 September 2026 (Tuesday)
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: DE308

  Workshop 4: Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD)

  Date: 28 September 2026 (Monday)
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: R602

  Workshop 5: Inclusion and Communicating with Students with Visual Impairment (VI), Hearing Impairment (HI) and Physical Impairment (PI)

  Date: 7 October 2026 (Wednesday)
  Time: 10.00am – 12.00noon
  Venue: EF311

  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 on or before 3 September 2026 (Thursday). 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. 

   

• 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"