Special Educational Needs and Disabilities - Issues and Debates

Offering more than just advice for classroom practice, this core textbook focuses on the issues and debates surrounding SEND to encourage readers to think critically and reflect upon topical issues and their relation to practice. 

List of contents

Chapter 1: Issues and Debates into the Aetiology of SEND
Chapter 2: Historical development of SEND
Chapter 3: Critical and Global perspectives
Chapter 4: SEND, Inclusion and current legislation
Chapter 5: Professionalism, Ethical Practice and Safeguarding
Chapter 6: Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities/Difficulties
Chapter 7: Language, Literacies and Dyslexia
Chapter 8: Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Chapter 9: Attention Disorders (ADD, ADHD)
Chapter 10: Cognitive Diversity (Cognitive disability, Dyscalculia)
Chapter 11: Diversity in Speech, Language and Communication Development
Chapter 12: Mental Health and Wellbeing

About the author

Trevor Cotterill is Programme Leader of the BA (Hons) SEND at the University of Derby.

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Cotterill, Trevor (Derby University Cotterill
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.03.2020, delayed
• EAN: 9781526427762
• ISBN: 978-1-5264-2776-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education; Sonderpädagogik: Lernschwierigkeiten, EDUCATION / Special Education / Learning Disabilities, Teaching of students with learning difficulties, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary