The result of what the learner has successfully learned from their educational and extra-curricular experiences. It refers to the totality of skills and attributes embedded within the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence and developed across the curriculum in school and through learning in other contexts.

Approaches which meet the needs of the learner and help reduce the development of further barriers to learning.

In the Scottish education system this term is used when children and young people need more – or different support to what is normally provided in schools or pre-schools to children of the same age.

The process of collecting and interpreting evidence of  learners performance.

“Any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of children with disabilities.”

The measurable progress which children and young people make as they advance through and beyond school, and the development of the range of skills, knowledge and attributes needed to succeed in learning, life and work.

Heard or perceived by the ears and processed by the brain.