Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Schools - A Critical Introduction

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Schools is an essential resource designed to support you during and beyond your teaching training to understand, assess and address special and/or additional educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In addition to the expected updates throughout to the latest research and legislation, new developments include:

- expanded discussions of key topics such as bullying, social, emotional and mental health
- detailed coverage of planning for transition across the age ranges
- suggestions of hardware and software for day-to-day use and use in exam conditions
- increased focus on the importance of positive and supportive relationships

Drawing on her wealth of experience, close contact with schools, families and students as well as relevant research, Janice Wearmouth explores a wide range of approaches to assess and address the most common forms of SEND. These include difficulties in communication and cognition, behavioural concerns related to social, emotional and mental health, sensory and/or physical needs, and literacy and numeracy difficulties.

The author uses key questions to introduce each chapter, and reflective activities to encourage you to consider your own practice to ensure that all young people reach their potential. She illustrates policy and provision for SEND in a highly authentic and engaging way with a range of exemplars, vignettes and personal accounts of young people's and families' experiences within the field, and provides a wealth of additional resources on the companion website.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
How to Use This Book
1. Issues Related To 'Needs' In Education across the UK
2. Understanding Learning and Behaviour
3. A Historical Perspective and the Current Legal Position
4. Assessment of Barriers to Learning, and Planning for Addressing Needs
5. Understanding Difficulties and Addressing Needs in Communication, Interaction, Cognition and Learning
6. Understanding and Addressing Difficulties in Social, Emotional and Mental Health
7. Focus on Behaviour in Schools and Colleges
8. Focus on Reading Difficulties
9. Focus on Writing Difficulties
10. Focus on Numeracy Difficulties
11. Focus on Behaviour in Settings, Schools and Colleges
12. Uses of Technology to Support Learning Needs
13. Professional Relationships with Others
14. Including young people: Moving Forward
References
Index

About the author

Janice Wearmouth is Professor of Education at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. She was previously Director of the Centre for Curriculum and Teaching Studies at the Open University, UK, and Professor of Education at the University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Summary

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Schools is an essential resource designed to support you during and beyond your teaching training to understand, assess and address special and/or additional educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In addition to the expected updates throughout to the latest research and legislation, new developments include:

- expanded discussions of key topics such as bullying, social, emotional and mental health
- detailed coverage of planning for transition across the age ranges
- suggestions of hardware and software for day-to-day use and use in exam conditions
- increased focus on the importance of positive and supportive relationships

Drawing on her wealth of experience, close contact with schools, families and students as well as relevant research, Janice Wearmouth explores a wide range of approaches to assess and address the most common forms of SEND. These include difficulties in communication and cognition, behavioural concerns related to social, emotional and mental health, sensory and/or physical needs, and literacy and numeracy difficulties.

The author uses key questions to introduce each chapter, and reflective activities to encourage you to consider your own practice to ensure that all young people reach their potential. She illustrates policy and provision for SEND in a highly authentic and engaging way with a range of exemplars, vignettes and personal accounts of young people’s and families’ experiences within the field, and provides a wealth of additional resources on the companion website.

Foreword

An essential resource to enable teachers at all levels and others interested in education to understand more about the nature of special educational needs and disability (SEND), and ways to assess and address difficulties in classrooms and elsewhere.

Additional text

A helpful introductory book that will be useful for students who are new to the area of Special Educational Needs. It is clearly structured and the reflective activities are useful to help the students engage with the material on a deeper level.

Product details

• Authors: Janice Wearmouth, Janice (University of Bedfordshire Wearmouth
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781350173026
• ISBN: 978-1-350-17302-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 244 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education; EDUCATION / Special Education / General, Teaching of students with different educational needs