Quick Guide to Special Needs and Disabilities

Detailing over 60 different special needs conditions this book is an ideal 'go-to-guide' to help teachers understand, identify and work with children who have special needs.

List of contents

PART 1 : Physical Impairements
Allergies
Asthma
Brittle Bone Disease
Cerebral Palsy
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Cystic Fibrosis
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
Haemophilia
Hearing Impairment
Heart Disease
Hemiplegia
Hydrocephalus
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
Microcephalus
Motor Neurone Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sensory Deprivation
Muscular Dystrophy
Restricted Growth
Sickle-cell Anaemia
Skin Disease
Spina Bifida
Visual Impairment
Wheelchair Users
PART 2: Neurological and Psychological Disorders
Asperger's Syndrome
Ataxia
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Autism
Down Syndrome
Dyscalculia
Dyslexia
Dyspraxia
Sensory Processing Disorder
Speech and Language Impairments
Tourette's Syndrome
Williams Syndrome
Attachment Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Depression
Eating Disorders
Emotional Behavioural Disorder
General Anxiety Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Personality Disorder
Phobias
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Schizophrenia
Selective Mutism
PART 3: Other Additional Needs
Disengaged and Excluded
Emotional Distress (bullying)
English as an Additional Language
Gifted and Talented
Learning Difficulties
Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
New Migrants
Obesity
Poor Conduct Disorder
Socio-Economic Difficulties (poverty)
Travellers and Gypsies
Victims of Abuse
Victims of Forced Marriages
Young Carers
Young Offenders
PART 4: Approaches for working with children and young people with additional needs
A Strategy for Children
A Strategy for Parents
A Strategy for Teachers
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Fundatia Inima de Copil (Heart of a Child Foundation)
Heuristic Play
Jolly Phonics
Makaton
Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT)
Mentoring and Critical Friendship
Mindfulness
Neurodiversity
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Portage Home Learning
CERTS (Social Communication Emotional Regulation Transactional Support for Children)
Solihull Approach
SENCOs (Special Educational Needs Coordinators)
Transactional Analysis
TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and Communication Handicapped Children)
Understanding Intelligence
Yoga and Tai chi

About the author

Bob Bates was a Senior Executive in the Civil Service for twenty years. During this time, he also worked as a staff trainer and coach and mentor to people with disabilities. He then set up his own Management & Training Consultancy (The Arundel Group), which celebrates its 25^th anniversary next year. His work as a management consultant covered a number of local and central government projects as well as working as a trainer with major UK private sector companies.
In the late 1990s Bob started a lecturing career, during which time he gained two Masters Degrees in Management and Education and a PhD in Education. He has taught over 1000 teachers and trainers on graduate and post-graduate programmes at two universities. He currently manages and teaches on City & Guild Teaching Award, Certificate and Diploma courses in a Community College
The first edition of Learning Theories Simplified was Bob’s third book. His first book, The Little Book of BIG Management Theories, written with Jim McGrath, was on W.H, Smiths’ non-fiction best sellers list for nearly a year, is being translated into fifteen languages, including Japanese and Arabic, and was chosen by the Chartered Management Institute as the CMI’s Practical Management Book of the Year for 2014. His second book, The Little Book of BIG Coaching Theories, published in February 2015, was also a best seller and has been translated into German and Thai. His fourth book, A Quick Guide to Special Needs and Disabilities, was published by SAGE in 2016 and his fifth book, Leadership Theories Simplified, was published by SAGE in 2017.
Bob shares his time these days between writing, working voluntarily for a charity that promotes health and education in the Gambia, researching into offender learning and homelessness and teaching Adult Education Teachers.
Bob can be contacted through his web site bobbates.co.uk (here you get an option to pick Research or Bad Bob Bates – please choose the former) or email [e-mail]

Summary

Detailing over 60 different special needs conditions this book is an ideal ‘go-to-guide’ to help teachers understand, identify and work with children who have special needs.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Bates, Bates Bob, Bob Bates
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2016
• EAN: 9781473979734
• ISBN: 978-1-4739-7973-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Special Education / General, Teaching of students with different educational needs