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"Second edition published by Routledge 2016"--T.p. verso.
List of contents
Introduction: Frames of reference: special or additional educational needs and disability, learning and behaviour 1. Models of human learning. Behaviourist, constructivist and eco-systemic approaches 2. Special educational, or additional support, needs and disability. Evolution of the field 3. Understanding and addressing difficulties in communication and interaction 4. Understanding and addressing difficulties in cognition and learning 5. Understanding and addressing difficulties in social, emotional and mental health 6. Understanding and addressing sensory and/or physical difficulties and needs 7. Assessment and planning for learners with special educational, or additional support, needs 8. The wider children’s workforce associated with special educational needs provision
About the author
Janice Wearmouth is Professor of Education at the University of Bedfordshire. She has published extensively in the field of policy and practice in special educational, and additional support, needs in education.
Summary
Special Educational Needs and Disability: The Basics provides an engaging and comprehensive overview of special needs education in the UK. Fully updated to incorporate all relevant and proposed legislation across the UK, it examines the fundamental principles of the subject from policy to practice.
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'Valuable to teachers and school management'
Gavin Reid, Independent Educational Psychologist, UK and Canada
'Thisnew edition clearly updates and reflects how ... changes in law and policy must continue to influence effective classroom and school practices.'
Mere Berryman, University of Waikato, New Zealand
