Special needs education in Swedish schools How to use the material This post for social media is about accommodations for schoolchildren in Sweden who have special needs. Please make sure to include the names of the photographers of the images you use.
Article on the Swedish school system on Sweden.se
Captions 🏫 Back-to-school time in Sweden. Exciting for some, challenging for others.
There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism. For these children, going back to school might be a struggle. 🎒
Swedish law says that schools should always take children's different needs into account. The Swedish government has given the National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools the mission 'to ensure that children, young people and adults – regardless of functional ability – have adequate conditions to fulfil their educational goals'.
Here are some examples of what kind of support Swedish schoolchildren with special educational needs can get:
✍️ Access to a dedicated special needs teacher.
✍️ To be allowed to read, write and do maths based on their own abilities – for example, with visual support or separate from the rest of the class.
✍️ Structures and routines for learning adapted to their individual needs.
✍️ Social interaction practice – sometimes together with an adult.
✍️ Adapted physical education (PE).
Some children attend special programmes and special needs schools – this is voluntary and based on an assessment made by a multi-disciplinary team. But many children with special educational needs go to regular schools with support and an action plan developed by the specific school together with the student and their legal guardian.
Parents and legal guardians – or a child over 16 – who feel they/their children don't get the support they need can contact the teacher or the headteacher at the school. If that doesn't solve the problem, the next level – for publicly run schools – is the responsible person at the local council. Then, there's also the Swedish Board of Appeal for Education, an independent authority.
Photos from Image Bank Sweden:
{
"slug": "special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools",
"type": "MaterialCollection",
"theme": "theme-light",
"pageProps": {
"appProps": {
"socialMediaUrls": {
"facebook": null,
"twitter": null,
"messenger": null,
"vk": null,
"spotify": null,
"instagram": null,
"whatsapp": null,
"youtube": null,
"telegram": null,
"__typename": "SwedenSettings_SiSettings_SocialMediaUrls"
},
"cookieSettings": {
"cookieBanner": {
"bannerText": "<p>Sharing Sweden uses cookies to improve your experience of the website. Read more in our <a href=\"https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/cookie-policy\">Cookie policy</a>.</p>\n",
"bannerTitle": "<p><strong>Cookies</strong></p>\n",
"__typename": "SwedenSettings_SiSettings_CookieSettings_CookieBanner"
},
"settingsButtonText": "Cookie-settings",
"settingsConfirmButtonText": "Confirm settings",
"settingsText": "<p>A cookie is a small text file stored on your device that allows us to recognise and remember you.</p>\n<p>Sharingsweden.se uses cookies and other data in order to deliver and improve your experience of this website. For instance, we and our partners may use information about you, your devices and your online interactions with us to provide, analyse and improve our services.</p>\n<p>The categories of cookies that we may use are necessary as well as statistics and analytics cookies. Learn more about how we use cookies by reading our <a href=\"https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/cookie-policy\">Cookie policy</a>.</p>\n",
"acceptButtonText": "Accept all cookies",
"categories": [
{
"alwaysCheckedText": "always on",
"hasAccepted": null,
"id": "cookie_consent_essentials",
"isCheckedText": "active",
"isNotCheckedText": "inactive",
"optional": null,
"text": "Necessary cookies are essential for you to browse our website and use its features. We are using cookies to remember your consent. This type of cookie is activated by default and you can only deactivate it by turning off cookies in your browser. ",
"title": "Necessary",
"__typename": "SwedenSettings_SiSettings_CookieSettings_categories"
},
{
"alwaysCheckedText": "always on",
"hasAccepted": null,
"id": "cookie_consent_statistics",
"isCheckedText": "active",
"isNotCheckedText": "inactive",
"optional": true,
"text": "Analytical cookies are used to measure how often our website is visited and how it is used. We use this information to get a better sense of where our users come from and how they interact with our content. For this, we use third-party cookies, the Google Analytics Cookies. These cookies are deactivated by default. If you choose to activate statistics and analytics cookies, we use IP anonymisation. You can deactivate these cookies at any time. ",
"title": "Statistics and analytics",
"__typename": "SwedenSettings_SiSettings_CookieSettings_categories"
}
],
"__typename": "SwedenSettings_SiSettings_CookieSettings"
},
"fallBackImage": {
"src": null,
"alt": "",
"height": 0,
"width": 0,
"title": null,
"caption": ""
},
"articleAuthorSettings": {
"textBeforeDate": "Published at"
},
"shareWidgetSettings": {
"headerText": null,
"shareButtonIconProps": [],
"copyText": null,
"afterCopyText": null,
"failedToCopyText": null
},
"navBarSettings": {
"navBarLogos": {
"mainLogo": null,
"mainLogoAriaLabel": "Sharing sweden logo",
"darkTextLogo": null,
"lightTextLogo": null
},
"navigationLabels": {
"toggleMenuLabel": null,
"toggleSearchLabel": null
}
},
"menu": {
"selectLabel": null,
"selectGroupLabel": null,
"selectOptions": [],
"linkGroup": [
[
{
"link": {
"title": "About Sharing Sweden",
"url": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/about-sharing-sweden",
"__typename": "AcfLink"
},
"__typename": "FooterApi_Footer_linkGroup_links"
},
{
"link": {
"title": "Contact",
"url": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/contact",
"__typename": "AcfLink"
},
"__typename": "FooterApi_Footer_linkGroup_links"
},
{
"link": {
"title": "FAQ",
"url": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/faq",
"__typename": "AcfLink"
},
"__typename": "FooterApi_Footer_linkGroup_links"
}
],
[
{
"link": {
"title": "News",
"url": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/news",
"__typename": "AcfLink"
},
"__typename": "FooterApi_Footer_linkGroup_links"
},
{
"link": {
"title": "Newsletter",
"url": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/newsletter",
"__typename": "AcfLink"
},
"__typename": "FooterApi_Footer_linkGroup_links"
},
{
"link": {
"title": "Financial support",
"url": "https://sharingsweden.se/promotional-material/financial-support-and-how-to-apply",
"__typename": "AcfLink"
},
"__typename": "FooterApi_Footer_linkGroup_links"
}
],
[
{
"link": {
"title": "Accessibility",
"url": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/accessibility",
"__typename": "AcfLink"
},
"__typename": "FooterApi_Footer_linkGroup_links"
},
{
"link": {
"title": "Cookies policy",
"url": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/cookie-policy",
"__typename": "AcfLink"
},
"__typename": "FooterApi_Footer_linkGroup_links"
},
{
"link": {
"title": "Terms and conditions of use",
"url": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/terms-and-conditions/",
"__typename": "AcfLink"
},
"__typename": "FooterApi_Footer_linkGroup_links"
}
]
],
"iconLinks": [],
"mainMenuContent": [
{
"id": 250,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/",
"title": "The Sweden brand",
"subMenuItems": [
{
"id": 255,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-strategy/",
"title": "The brand of Sweden as a strategic asset",
"subMenuItems": []
},
{
"id": 329,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/the-image-of-sweden-abroad/",
"title": "The image of Sweden abroad",
"subMenuItems": []
},
{
"id": 2392,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/",
"title": "Brand visual identity",
"subMenuItems": [
{
"id": 328,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/how-to-use-the-identity/",
"title": "How to use the identity"
},
{
"id": 327,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/design-principles/",
"title": "Design principles"
},
{
"id": 326,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/brand-marks/",
"title": "Brand marks"
},
{
"id": 325,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/colour/",
"title": "Colour"
},
{
"id": 324,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/accessibility/",
"title": "Accessibility"
},
{
"id": 323,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/typography/",
"title": "Typography"
},
{
"id": 322,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/grid/",
"title": "Grid"
},
{
"id": 321,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/tone-of-motion/",
"title": "Tone of motion"
},
{
"id": 320,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/illustration/",
"title": "Illustration"
},
{
"id": 319,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/graphic-element/",
"title": "Graphic element"
},
{
"id": 318,
"href": "/the-sweden-brand/brand-visual-identity/best-practice/",
"title": "Best practice"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"id": 241,
"href": "/promotional-material/",
"title": "Promotional material",
"subMenuItems": [
{
"id": 247,
"href": "/promotional-material/trade-and-talent/",
"title": "Trade and talent",
"subMenuItems": []
},
{
"id": 244,
"href": "/promotional-material/culture-and-lifestyle/",
"title": "Culture and lifestyle",
"subMenuItems": []
},
{
"id": 243,
"href": "/promotional-material/democracy-and-governance/",
"title": "Democracy and governance",
"subMenuItems": []
},
{
"id": 246,
"href": "/promotional-material/the-swedish-film-selection/",
"title": "The Swedish film selection",
"subMenuItems": []
},
{
"id": 245,
"href": "/promotional-material/image-bank-sweden/",
"title": "Image Bank Sweden",
"subMenuItems": []
},
{
"id": 242,
"href": "/promotional-material/toolkits-social-media-video-and-more/",
"title": "All toolkits, social media, video and more",
"subMenuItems": []
}
]
},
{
"id": 291,
"href": "/calendar/",
"title": "Calendar",
"subMenuItems": []
}
]
},
"footer": {
"copyright": "Copyright © 2023 Swedish Institute",
"linkGroup": [
[
{
"href": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/about-sharing-sweden",
"name": "About Sharing Sweden"
},
{
"href": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/contact",
"name": "Contact"
},
{
"href": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/faq",
"name": "FAQ"
}
],
[
{
"href": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/news",
"name": "News"
},
{
"href": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/newsletter",
"name": "Newsletter"
},
{
"href": "https://sharingsweden.se/promotional-material/financial-support-and-how-to-apply",
"name": "Financial support"
}
],
[
{
"href": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/accessibility",
"name": "Accessibility"
},
{
"href": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/cookie-policy",
"name": "Cookies policy"
},
{
"href": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/terms-and-conditions/",
"name": "Terms and conditions of use"
}
]
],
"logos": [
{
"ariaLabel": "Link to sweden.se",
"logo": {
"anchorProps": {
"href": "https://sweden.se/"
},
"imageProps": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2023/08/sweden_logo.svg",
"alt": null,
"height": null,
"width": null
}
}
},
{
"ariaLabel": "Link to si.se",
"logo": {
"anchorProps": {
"href": "https://si.se/"
},
"imageProps": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2023/08/si_logo.svg",
"alt": null,
"height": null,
"width": null
}
}
}
]
},
"skipToContent": null,
"cookieLabel": null,
"previousSlideLabel": null,
"nextSlideLabel": null,
"toolkitApplyButtonText": null,
"searchFilterProps": {
"topic": "Topic",
"format": "Format",
"topicFilters": [
{
"item": "Arts & design"
},
{
"item": "Business & entrepreneurship"
},
{
"item": "Celebrations"
},
{
"item": "Children & youth"
},
{
"item": "Democracy"
},
{
"item": "Food"
},
{
"item": "Gender equality"
},
{
"item": "History"
},
{
"item": "Innovation"
},
{
"item": "LGBTQI+"
},
{
"item": "Society"
},
{
"item": "Sports"
},
{
"item": "Study & research"
},
{
"item": "Sustainability"
},
{
"item": "Sweden in general"
}
],
"formatFilters": [
{
"item": "Toolkit"
},
{
"item": "Feature film"
},
{
"item": "Exhibition"
},
{
"item": "Presentations"
},
{
"item": "Print materials"
},
{
"item": "Quizzes"
},
{
"item": "Social media content"
},
{
"item": "Templates"
},
{
"item": "Video"
}
],
"languageOptions": [
"albanian",
"arabic",
"armenian",
"bosnian",
"chinese",
"croatian",
"cypriot greek",
"english",
"estonian",
"filipino",
"french",
"georgian",
"german",
"italian",
"japanese",
"korean",
"latvian",
"lithuanian",
"macedonian",
"polish",
"portuguese",
"russian",
"slovenian",
"spanish",
"swedish",
"thai",
"turkish",
"vietnamese"
]
},
"searchComponentData": {
"searchComponent": {
"beforeQuery": null,
"afterQuery": null,
"preResultText": null,
"afterResultText": null
},
"searchField": {
"placeholder": "Search social media, video, toolkits and more",
"submitButtonText": "Search",
"label": "search",
"searchPageUri": "/promotional-material/toolkits-social-media-video-and-more/"
},
"hijackData": []
}
},
"post": {
"uri": "/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/",
"seo": {
"head": "<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.2 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism.\" />\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\" />\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" />\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" />\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Special needs education in Swedish schools - Sharing Sweden\" />\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism.\" />\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\" />\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sharing Sweden\" />\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-30T13:36:29+00:00\" />\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http://sharingsweden.se/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud%2Fapp%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F08%2Fstudent-life.jpg&w=1200&q=90\" />\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2480\" />\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1653\" />\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image/jpeg\" />\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" />\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" />\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" />\n<script type=\"application/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https://schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\",\"url\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\",\"name\":\"Special needs education in Swedish schools - Sharing Sweden\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/08/student-life.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-27T13:32:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-30T13:36:29+00:00\",\"description\":\"There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud%2Fapp%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F08%2Fstudent-life.jpg&w=1200&q=90\",\"contentUrl\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud%2Fapp%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F08%2Fstudent-life.jpg&w=1200&q=90\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Lieselotte van der Meijs/imagebank.sweden.se\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/#website\",\"url\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/\",\"name\":\"Sharing Sweden\",\"description\":\"A comprehensive collection of resources to promote Sweden to an international audience\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/search?query={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}</script>\n<!-- / Yoast SEO plugin. -->",
"shareUrl": "http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/",
"title": "Special needs education in Swedish schools - Sharing Sweden"
},
"date": "2024-08-27T15:32:11",
"type": "MaterialCollection",
"breadcrumbs": [
{
"title": "Start",
"href": "/",
"isCurrentPage": false
},
{
"title": "Promotional material",
"href": "/promotional-material/",
"isCurrentPage": false
},
{
"title": "Toolkits, social media, video and more",
"href": "/promotional-material/toolkits-social-media-video-and-more/",
"isCurrentPage": false
},
{
"title": "Special needs education in Swedish schools",
"href": "/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/",
"isCurrentPage": true
}
],
"searchPage": null,
"featuredMedia": {
"imageBlockProps": {
"imageProps": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/08/student-life.jpg",
"alt": "Teenagers sit together by tables in a long hallway.",
"title": "Student life",
"height": 1653,
"width": 2480,
"caption": "Lieselotte van der Meijs/imagebank.sweden.se"
},
"caption": "Lieselotte van der Meijs/imagebank.sweden.se"
},
"embedDataProps": null
},
"featuredImage": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/08/student-life.jpg",
"alt": "Teenagers sit together by tables in a long hallway.",
"title": "Student life",
"height": 1653,
"width": 2480,
"caption": "Lieselotte van der Meijs/imagebank.sweden.se"
},
"title": "Special needs education in Swedish schools",
"subHeading": null,
"slug": "special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools",
"toolkitData": [],
"eventData": [],
"sidebarMenu": [],
"rows": [
{
"left": [],
"right": [
{
"type": "heading",
"anchorId": "",
"h2": true,
"children": "How to use the material"
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "This post for social media is about accommodations for schoolchildren in Sweden who have special needs. Please make sure to include the names of the photographers of the images you use."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "<a href=\"https://sweden.se/life/society/the-swedish-school-system\">Article on the Swedish school system on Sweden.se</a>"
},
{
"type": "materials-block",
"heading": "Image selection",
"firstMaterialFullwidth": false,
"materialList": [
{
"id": 23383,
"downloadTitle": "Special needs education – Image selection",
"title": "School images",
"format": "",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/08/student-life.jpg",
"alt": "Teenagers sit together by tables in a long hallway."
},
"download": false,
"buttonText": "Download images from Image Bank Sweden",
"hidePopup": null,
"mediaLink": "https://imagebank.sweden.se/my-selections/36ou4gawgy"
}
]
},
{
"type": "heading",
"anchorId": "",
"h2": true,
"children": "Captions"
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "🏫 Back-to-school time in Sweden. Exciting for some, challenging for others."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism. For these children, going back to school might be a struggle. 🎒"
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Swedish law says that schools should always take children's different needs into account. The Swedish government has given the National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools the mission 'to ensure that children, young people and adults – regardless of functional ability – have adequate conditions to fulfil their educational goals'."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Here are some examples of what kind of support Swedish schoolchildren with special educational needs can get:"
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ Access to a dedicated special needs teacher."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ To be allowed to read, write and do maths based on their own abilities – for example, with visual support or separate from the rest of the class."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ Structures and routines for learning adapted to their individual needs."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ Social interaction practice – sometimes together with an adult."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ Adapted physical education (PE)."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Some children attend special programmes and special needs schools – this is voluntary and based on an assessment made by a multi-disciplinary team. But many children with special educational needs go to regular schools with support and an action plan developed by the specific school together with the student and their legal guardian."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Parents and legal guardians – or a child over 16 – who feel they/their children don't get the support they need can contact the teacher or the headteacher at the school. If that doesn't solve the problem, the next level – for publicly run schools – is the responsible person at the local council. Then, there's also the Swedish Board of Appeal for Education, an independent authority."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Photos from Image Bank Sweden:"
},
{
"type": "material-collections-block",
"heading": "Related content",
"materialCollectionsList": [
{
"title": "Facts about the Swedish school system",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/07/primary-school-classroom.jpg",
"alt": "Primary school classroom",
"height": 1653,
"width": 2480,
"title": "Primary school classroom",
"caption": "Ann-Sofi Rosenkvist/imagebank.sweden.se"
},
"href": "/materials/facts-about-the-swedish-school-system/"
},
{
"title": "Hello from Sweden",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/02/Mother-language-day.jpg",
"alt": "",
"height": 720,
"width": 394,
"title": "Mother language day",
"caption": ""
},
"href": "/materials/mother-languages-in-sweden/"
},
{
"title": "5 examples of gender equality in Sweden",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/02/phia_bergdahl-on_the_job-9208-thumbnail.jpg",
"alt": "An woman working in industry talking to her male coworker",
"height": 533,
"width": 800,
"title": "phia_bergdahl-on_the_job-9208 thumbnail",
"caption": ""
},
"href": "/materials/5-examples-of-gender-equality-in-sweden/"
}
]
}
],
"fullWidth": false,
"stickyLeft": true,
"reverseColumnOrderOnMobile": false
}
],
"blocks": [
{
"left": [],
"right": [
{
"type": "heading",
"anchorId": "",
"h2": true,
"children": "How to use the material"
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "This post for social media is about accommodations for schoolchildren in Sweden who have special needs. Please make sure to include the names of the photographers of the images you use."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "<a href=\"https://sweden.se/life/society/the-swedish-school-system\">Article on the Swedish school system on Sweden.se</a>"
},
{
"type": "materials-block",
"heading": "Image selection",
"firstMaterialFullwidth": false,
"materialList": [
{
"id": 23383,
"downloadTitle": "Special needs education – Image selection",
"title": "School images",
"format": "",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/08/student-life.jpg",
"alt": "Teenagers sit together by tables in a long hallway."
},
"download": false,
"buttonText": "Download images from Image Bank Sweden",
"hidePopup": null,
"mediaLink": "https://imagebank.sweden.se/my-selections/36ou4gawgy"
}
]
},
{
"type": "heading",
"anchorId": "",
"h2": true,
"children": "Captions"
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "🏫 Back-to-school time in Sweden. Exciting for some, challenging for others."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism. For these children, going back to school might be a struggle. 🎒"
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Swedish law says that schools should always take children's different needs into account. The Swedish government has given the National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools the mission 'to ensure that children, young people and adults – regardless of functional ability – have adequate conditions to fulfil their educational goals'."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Here are some examples of what kind of support Swedish schoolchildren with special educational needs can get:"
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ Access to a dedicated special needs teacher."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ To be allowed to read, write and do maths based on their own abilities – for example, with visual support or separate from the rest of the class."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ Structures and routines for learning adapted to their individual needs."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ Social interaction practice – sometimes together with an adult."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "✍️ Adapted physical education (PE)."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Some children attend special programmes and special needs schools – this is voluntary and based on an assessment made by a multi-disciplinary team. But many children with special educational needs go to regular schools with support and an action plan developed by the specific school together with the student and their legal guardian."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Parents and legal guardians – or a child over 16 – who feel they/their children don't get the support they need can contact the teacher or the headteacher at the school. If that doesn't solve the problem, the next level – for publicly run schools – is the responsible person at the local council. Then, there's also the Swedish Board of Appeal for Education, an independent authority."
},
{
"type": "paragraph",
"anchorId": "",
"children": "Photos from Image Bank Sweden:"
},
{
"type": "material-collections-block",
"heading": "Related content",
"materialCollectionsList": [
{
"title": "Facts about the Swedish school system",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/07/primary-school-classroom.jpg",
"alt": "Primary school classroom",
"height": 1653,
"width": 2480,
"title": "Primary school classroom",
"caption": "Ann-Sofi Rosenkvist/imagebank.sweden.se"
},
"href": "/materials/facts-about-the-swedish-school-system/"
},
{
"title": "Hello from Sweden",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/02/Mother-language-day.jpg",
"alt": "",
"height": 720,
"width": 394,
"title": "Mother language day",
"caption": ""
},
"href": "/materials/mother-languages-in-sweden/"
},
{
"title": "5 examples of gender equality in Sweden",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/02/phia_bergdahl-on_the_job-9208-thumbnail.jpg",
"alt": "An woman working in industry talking to her male coworker",
"height": 533,
"width": 800,
"title": "phia_bergdahl-on_the_job-9208 thumbnail",
"caption": ""
},
"href": "/materials/5-examples-of-gender-equality-in-sweden/"
}
]
}
],
"fullWidth": false,
"stickyLeft": true,
"reverseColumnOrderOnMobile": false
}
],
"calendarItems": [],
"extra": {
"content": {
"__typename": "MaterialCollection",
"slug": "special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools",
"uri": "/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/",
"date": "2024-08-27T15:32:11",
"databaseId": 23379,
"breadcrumbs": "[{\"title\":\"Start\",\"href\":\"\\/\",\"isCurrentPage\":false},{\"title\":\"Promotional material\",\"href\":\"\\/promotional-material\\/\",\"isCurrentPage\":false},{\"title\":\"Toolkits, social media, video and more\",\"href\":\"\\/promotional-material\\/toolkits-social-media-video-and-more\\/\",\"isCurrentPage\":false},{\"title\":\"Special needs education in Swedish schools\",\"href\":\"\\/materials\\/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools\\/\",\"isCurrentPage\":true}]",
"seo": {
"opengraphUrl": "http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/",
"title": "Special needs education in Swedish schools - Sharing Sweden",
"__typename": "PostTypeSEO"
},
"title": "Special needs education in Swedish schools",
"featuredImage": {
"node": {
"mediaDetails": {
"height": 1653,
"width": 2480,
"__typename": "MediaDetails"
},
"title": "Student life",
"uri": "/material/special-needs-education-image-selection/student-life/",
"altText": "Teenagers sit together by tables in a long hallway.",
"caption": "Lieselotte van der Meijs/imagebank.sweden.se",
"sourceUrl": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/08/student-life.jpg",
"__typename": "MediaItem"
},
"__typename": "NodeWithFeaturedImageToMediaItemConnectionEdge"
},
"blocks": [
{
"name": "sweden-tsw/article-row",
"__typename": "SwedenTswArticleRowBlock",
"attributes": {
"reverseColumnOrderOnMobile": false,
"__typename": "SwedenTswArticleRowBlockAttributes"
},
"innerBlocks": [
{
"name": "sweden-tsw/left-column",
"innerBlocks": [],
"__typename": "SwedenTswLeftColumnBlock"
},
{
"name": "sweden-tsw/right-column",
"innerBlocks": [
{
"name": "core/heading",
"attributes": {
"level": 2,
"anchor": "",
"content": "How to use the material",
"__typename": "CoreHeadingBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreHeadingBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "This post for social media is about accommodations for schoolchildren in Sweden who have special needs. Please make sure to include the names of the photographers of the images you use.",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "<a href=\"https://sweden.se/life/society/the-swedish-school-system\">Article on the Swedish school system on Sweden.se</a>",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "acf/materials-block",
"attributes": {
"data": "{\"heading\":\"Image selection\",\"_heading\":\"field_64635682c10c0\",\"selectedMaterials\":[\"23383\"],\"_selectedMaterials\":\"field_646352d0e5afe\",\"firstMaterialFullwidth\":\"0\",\"_firstMaterialFullwidth\":\"field_646354954999a\"}",
"__typename": "AcfMaterialsBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "AcfMaterialsBlock",
"heading": "Image selection",
"firstMaterialFullwidth": false,
"materialList": [
{
"id": 23383,
"downloadTitle": "Special needs education – Image selection",
"title": "School images",
"format": "",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/08/student-life.jpg",
"alt": "Teenagers sit together by tables in a long hallway."
},
"download": false,
"buttonText": "Download images from Image Bank Sweden",
"hidePopup": null,
"mediaLink": "https://imagebank.sweden.se/my-selections/36ou4gawgy"
}
]
},
{
"name": "core/heading",
"attributes": {
"level": 2,
"anchor": "",
"content": "Captions",
"__typename": "CoreHeadingBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreHeadingBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "🏫 Back-to-school time in Sweden. Exciting for some, challenging for others.",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism. For these children, going back to school might be a struggle. 🎒",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "Swedish law says that schools should always take children's different needs into account. The Swedish government has given the National Agency for Special Needs Education and Schools the mission 'to ensure that children, young people and adults – regardless of functional ability – have adequate conditions to fulfil their educational goals'.",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "Here are some examples of what kind of support Swedish schoolchildren with special educational needs can get:",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "✍️ Access to a dedicated special needs teacher.",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "✍️ To be allowed to read, write and do maths based on their own abilities – for example, with visual support or separate from the rest of the class.",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "✍️ Structures and routines for learning adapted to their individual needs.",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "✍️ Social interaction practice – sometimes together with an adult.",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "✍️ Adapted physical education (PE).",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "Some children attend special programmes and special needs schools – this is voluntary and based on an assessment made by a multi-disciplinary team. But many children with special educational needs go to regular schools with support and an action plan developed by the specific school together with the student and their legal guardian.",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "Parents and legal guardians – or a child over 16 – who feel they/their children don't get the support they need can contact the teacher or the headteacher at the school. If that doesn't solve the problem, the next level – for publicly run schools – is the responsible person at the local council. Then, there's also the Swedish Board of Appeal for Education, an independent authority.",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "core/paragraph",
"attributes": {
"anchor": "",
"content": "Photos from Image Bank Sweden:",
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "CoreParagraphBlock"
},
{
"name": "acf/material-collections-block",
"attributes": {
"data": "{\"heading\":\"Related content\",\"_heading\":\"field_64660c568b7c9\",\"selectedMaterialCollections\":[\"20729\",\"11994\",\"12135\"],\"_selectedMaterialCollections\":\"field_64660c568b836\"}",
"__typename": "AcfMaterialCollectionsBlockAttributes"
},
"__typename": "AcfMaterialCollectionsBlock",
"heading": "Related content",
"materialCollectionsList": [
{
"title": "Facts about the Swedish school system",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/07/primary-school-classroom.jpg",
"alt": "Primary school classroom",
"height": 1653,
"width": 2480,
"title": "Primary school classroom",
"caption": "Ann-Sofi Rosenkvist/imagebank.sweden.se"
},
"href": "/materials/facts-about-the-swedish-school-system/"
},
{
"title": "Hello from Sweden",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/02/Mother-language-day.jpg",
"alt": "",
"height": 720,
"width": 394,
"title": "Mother language day",
"caption": ""
},
"href": "/materials/mother-languages-in-sweden/"
},
{
"title": "5 examples of gender equality in Sweden",
"image": {
"src": "https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/02/phia_bergdahl-on_the_job-9208-thumbnail.jpg",
"alt": "An woman working in industry talking to her male coworker",
"height": 533,
"width": 800,
"title": "phia_bergdahl-on_the_job-9208 thumbnail",
"caption": ""
},
"href": "/materials/5-examples-of-gender-equality-in-sweden/"
}
]
}
],
"__typename": "SwedenTswRightColumnBlock"
}
]
}
],
"yoastHead": "<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.2 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism.\" />\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\" />\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" />\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" />\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Special needs education in Swedish schools - Sharing Sweden\" />\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism.\" />\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\" />\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sharing Sweden\" />\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-30T13:36:29+00:00\" />\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http://sharingsweden.se/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud%2Fapp%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F08%2Fstudent-life.jpg&w=1200&q=90\" />\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2480\" />\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1653\" />\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image/jpeg\" />\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" />\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" />\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" />\n<script type=\"application/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https://schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\",\"url\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\",\"name\":\"Special needs education in Swedish schools - Sharing Sweden\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https://sharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud/app/uploads/2024/08/student-life.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-27T13:32:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-30T13:36:29+00:00\",\"description\":\"There are many schoolchildren who have special needs, sometimes because of neuropsychiatric disorders such as ADHD or autism.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/materials/special-needs-education-in-swedish-schools/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud%2Fapp%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F08%2Fstudent-life.jpg&w=1200&q=90\",\"contentUrl\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsharingsweden-backend.c2673.cloudnet.cloud%2Fapp%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F08%2Fstudent-life.jpg&w=1200&q=90\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Lieselotte van der Meijs/imagebank.sweden.se\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/#website\",\"url\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/\",\"name\":\"Sharing Sweden\",\"description\":\"A comprehensive collection of resources to promote Sweden to an international audience\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http://sharingsweden.se/search?query={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}</script>\n<!-- / Yoast SEO plugin. -->"
},
"events": null,
"searchPage": null
}
},
"category": false
}
} 
