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Many children in primary school who are defined as having special needs have difficulties in the acqusition and development of literacy skills. Teachers are faced with the dilemma of how to achieve a balance between developing basic skills on the one hand and ensuring breadth of curriculum on the other. This book shows that the teaching of expressive arts (art, creative writing, drama, music, oracy, dance and physical education) can enrich and improve the education of children with learning difficulties, through creative self-expression. ... Read more

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This book provides a clear-sighted and positive analysis of integration. Highly practical in its approach, it examines how schools cope with a variety of special needs ranging from emotional and behavioural problems to physical disabilities. This book should be of interest to head teachers, teachers of special needs. ... Read more

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Teachers in primary schools have to have a mutually agreed policy and a strategy concerning children with special needs. The authors of this book show this can be achieved in the context of support services both within the school and outside. This book should be of interest to /OREAD. ... Read more

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Based on a three-year study, this book reports on a variety of schemes where children with special needs are being educated in ordinary schools. It looks closely at the range of integration programmes, assessing the implications for the school themselves, and giving guidance on the practical constraints and problems which arise. This book should be of interest to /OREAD. ... Read more

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Robbins shows how all students, including those with special needs, can learn mathematics effectively within the mainstream curriculum. By drawing on case studies from several countries, he illustrates the implications of inclusive education for classroom teaching, whole school approaches, and teacher development. ... Read more

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With the introduction of the Code of Practice, all teachers will be involved in the identification and assessment of children's special educational needs and will be dealing with parents as potential partners. Many teachers and classroom support staff will have had little training in SEN and in interfacing with parents over SEN. There will be a great need for effective interaction with parents to enhance the professionals' understanding of the child and to increase the chances of co-operation and involvement of the parents. The author of this book draws on her own experience as a parent and in supporting other parents of children with SEN, to offer help to professionals in seeing and realising the value of parental partnership. ... Read more

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Primarily designed for Special Needs co-ordinators and mainstream teachers, this book follows the sweeping changes which have come about since the publication of "The Code of Practice on the Identifying and Assessment of Special Educational Needs". It aims to provide a guide to emerging good practice: reflecting the daily pressures of teachers' working lives; answering their concerns about particular pupils; showing them how to prevent learning difficulties; and helping them to work more effectively with colleagues, other professionals, parents, pupils and governors. ... Read more

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Recent legislation and cutbacks to central support services mean that the responsibility for meeting special educational needs is resting ever more squarely on the shoulders of ordinary classroom teachers. Yet few feel wholly confident in their ability to adapt work within the national curriculum to meet the whole range of needs, or coordinate successful individual education plans for children who, for whatever reason, are not learning as well as they might.

This book will increase that confidence. Aimed at busy class teachers, special needs coordinators, heads and teachers in training, it shows how the teacher can build differentiation into planning lessons and schemes of work. It describes workable strategies for managing the most common behavior difficulties and meeting special needs in language, literacy and mathematics.

At a whole school level, it offers practical guidance on reviewing special needs policies, assessment, record keeping, and the management of roles and resources. The focus is on the way in which schools can do a good job in meeting special needs themselves, within the everyday constraints of time, money and energy, and in so doing provide genuinely inclusive opportunities for all children.

This edition has been comprehensively updated and rewritten to cover the revised SEN Code of Practice and related legislation, new directions in inclusion and all the major curriculum initiatives now in place in primary schools. ... Read more

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Occupational Therapy Approaches for Primary Special Needs is a resource book for educational staff and pediatric occupational therapists, especially those new to the field. It shows how the implications of physical, psychological, social, and learning difficulties impact upon children’s abilities. This highly practical book will help readers recognize when a student’s poor performance within the classroom is a result of a medical condition or underlying motor and perceptual deficits. ... Read more

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Praise for the First Edition:

`… A warm feeling of positive reassurance and guidance runs throughout the book. [It] offers practical and emotional help, not only to a child's family, but equally to health and educational workers starting out within this field. This book should have a prominent place in every toy and leisure library as well as within childcare agencies.'

- Play Matters

`This very useful and readable book … provides a wealth of resource ideas to support parents of young children with special needs'

- Downs Syndrome Association (UK)

`This is a very practical book, full of common sense and simple ideas…Although intended for parents this book will also be an invaluable resource for anyone working with children with special needs'

- Let's Play

When young children are diagnosed with conditions such as Down Syndrome, autism or other forms of developmental delay, there is much that parents can do to help. This new edition of the award-winning Small Steps Forward includes up-to-date research and practice, providing parents and carers with the information they need and a host of ideas to encourage their child's development. The games and activities use toys and materials which most children will already have, and involve no special preparation. They are also fun to play.

Sarah Newman divides skills into six areas - cognitive, linguistic, physical, sensory, social and emotional - for convenient reference. She deals with general issues, such as behavior management, toilet-training and sleep management, which may be encountered by parents of children with any form of disability - physical, learning or sensory. She also provides an outline of child development so that parents can place their child's progress in context, and gives practical advice on coping with stress of having a child with special needs.

This book is an essential guide for parents of young children with developmental disabilities and will also be invaluable to anyone who works with children with special needs. ... Read more

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Excellent resource
This book gives lots of positive, practical and relevant ideas for use with special needs children.I have already tried a few ideas and they have worked very well.It is an English resource, but from New Zealand still very relevant!!

Parents of young children will find this a fine guide for behavior management and cognitive skills
This new edition of SMALL STEPS FORWARD: USING GAMES AND ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR PRE-SCHOOL CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS offers the latest research and practice along with a host of games and activities to help kids. These games use no special materials and are fun to play, and are offered in a text dividing skills into six areas for easy reference. Parents of young children will find this a fine guide for behavior management and cognitive skills as well as social and emotional growth, and early education collections will welcome it.

A much needed book for parents of special needs children
Small Steps Forward by Sarah Newman

This is a great book written by a very impressive woman.Sarah Newman discovered she had an autistic child when her first son was a few months old.Her first reaction was panic andher next thought was to get as much help as she could.She searched for abook on the subject and found that there were none.So Sarah set to andwrote one that made use of her experience parenting her own special needschild.The result is the book - Small Steps Forward.

As you would expectfrom the circumstances surrounding its creation, the book is down to earthand practical.It is full of the experience that Sarah gained in the dayto day problems of managing, entertaining and helping a small child.Sarahis a practical and highly intelligent woman, so there is plenty of soundadvice on how to make the best use of professional advice and where to findpracticaql help.The book is written with real understanding for theproblems involved and comes to the re-assuring conclusion that parentsshould remember "it is you who know your own child best."

I read thisbook when my wife was preparing the illustrations and found the experiencevery moving.It gave me a small insight intothe problems and pleasuresof parenting a special needs child and struck me as a book that would be agod-send to any parent of such a child.In fact me and my wife havealready given it to the parents of one such child.Furthermore I believethat any parents of a child under 5 would find hundreds of good ideas andlots of good advice in the book..

The illustrations are beautifulcapturing the "different" charm and beauty that belongs to Downs Syndrome,Autistic, and other special needs children.Parents or young special needschildren will find this a beautiful book as well as a supremely useful one. I heartily recommend this book. Nick Mellersh ... Read more

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Teachers and support teachers in secondary schools can use this book to maximize the impact and effectiveness of their work together. The author looks at a broad range of special needs and offers support strategies that work in a mainstream classroom. Informed by the latest research and updated in the light of the new revised Code of Practice, this new edition explains students' difficulties and contains advice on good classroom practice. It will help the reader to support any student with special educational needs.

Teachers, Teaching Assistants and SENCOs will find this book particularly helpful. For specialist study, there is a list of further reading at the end of each chapter. SEN governors in schools will also find this a useful overview of the breadth of special needs for which their school could be expected to cater. ... Read more

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Based on a study carried out in 70 schools in England and Wales, this book looks closely at the ways in which, on a day-to-day basis, teachers in ordinary schools are integrating pupils with special educational needs into classes. The authors focus on changes in school organization and the curriculum, staffing, and classroom teaching. They point out strategies teachers have found to be advantageous and discuss areas where problems were encountered. This book should be of interest to /OREAD. ... Read more

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The young person, who has had special education help while at school, often faces a confused and uncertain future when leaving school. This book is about bringing continuity, coherence and co-ordination into that time. Only by working together to agreed ends and co-ordinating the use of limited resources will reasonable opportunities be made available. The investment in special education in the school period will be wasted, and the cost of long term dependence will be high, if transition is not supported. Transition from school, through further education and vocational preparation, to an adult working life is often made difficult or impossible by a lack of understanding of this important phase and process. This book defines this transition. The criteria for its three stages - the final years of school, further education and training, and entry to work and independent living - are set out and examples are given to illustrate what might be possible. Individuals should have a transition plan to which education, health, employment and social services, as well as voluntary agencies, contribute.This book is intended to help families, young people and a wide range of professionals and administrators to understand and make a more effective contribution to the transition of young people with disabilities and learning difficulties. ... Read more

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Candid and positive, this easy-to-read guide book is an invaluable companion for parents-- and a helpful source of insight for professionals seeking the parent perspective. ... Read more

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Perfect resource for parents AND teachers
As an advocate and teacher educator, I have given away more copies of this book than I can count. Mary Falvey has created a resource that is not only user-friendly but based in research and focused on best practice in K-12 schools. It covers IEPs, assessment, curricular adaptations and more. Essential!

A must for parents of children with disabilities
Author Mary Falvey's advice is so cutting edge, sensitive, practical, and visionary. She fully understands inclusive education from preschool through postsecondary options and beyond, to life in inclusive communities. Mary is personally and professionally connected to those individuals with the most significant disabilities. She shares information on to promote your child's access to the general curriculum, how to get the school to use appropriate modifications and assessment strategies, how to encourage friendships, how to work collaboratively with the school, how to problem solve, and what your legal rights are. To keep current as a special education attorney, I have read over a hundred books in this field. Believe In My Child will join the ranks of the small handful of books I recommend to my clients. ... Read more

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The book looks in detail at how to support pupils with a wide range of special educational needs: communication and integration difficulties; social, emotional and behavioral difficulties; cognition and learning difficulties; sensory and physical needs; and medical needs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Intervention in School & Clinic, published by Pro-Ed on November 1, 2000. The length of the article is 3493 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Address Individual Needs: The Role of General Educators.
Author: Antonis Katsiyannis
Publication: Intervention in School & Clinic (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2000
Publisher: Pro-Ed
Volume: 36Issue: 2Page: 116

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