
Dr Susana Castro and Dr Olympia Palikara from the University of Roehampton’s School of Education are leading the project in the UK, which has received 380,000 euros in funding from the European Commission.
The team will be working alongside colleagues in Germany, Austria, Italy, Turkey and Macedonia to develop a new website tool based on the World Health Organisation’s classifications for disability and impairments.
Dr Castro said that the ICF could help professionals in early childhood settings implement recent changes to SEN legislation, because it provides much more detailed information than a general diagnosis.
The new ICF-MedUse online tool the team is developing will be based on the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health), which was developed by the WHO.
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