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Freddie's super summer
- Author:
- GAYNOR Kate
- Publisher:
- Special Stories
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
This is one of a series of books featuring characters with a certain special education need, designed to introduce all children to the positive aspects of inclusive education, and help children to learn the importance of accepting friends and classmates who are different to them. In this story Freddie, a boy with Downs syndrome, goes to summer camp. Notes for adults on how to use the book are included.
The child with special needs: encouraging intellectual and emotional growth
- Authors:
- GREENSPAN Stanley, WIEDER Serena, SIMONS Robin
- Publisher:
- Perseus
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 496p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
Presents a guide to raising a child with special needs. In this essential work they lay out a complete, step-by-step approach for parents, educators, and others who work with developmental problems. Covering all kinds of disabilities, including autism, PDD, language and speech problems, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and ADD - the authors offer a new understanding of the nature of these challenges and also specific ways of helping children extend their intellectual and emotional potential.
The transition to adulthood for children with Down's Syndrome
- Authors:
- THOMPSON George O.B., WARD Kathleen M., WISHART Jennifer G.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 10(3), 1995, pp.325-340.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Reports on the transition pathways to adult status of young adults with Down's Syndrome over a six year period. Despite educational, social and employment legislation aimed at ensuring greater integration into the community, qualitative and quantitative analyses of 'quality of life' outcomes in this group produced a disappointing picture of a narrow range of leisure opportunities, negligible placement in employment, and the absence of any improvement in opportunities for real integration into the community and in provision of resources to support meeting the special needs of those with learning difficulties, a marginalised group may be being created.
What do parents want?: an analysis of education-related comments made by parents of children with different genetic syndromes
- Authors:
- FIDLER Deborah J., LAWSON John E.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 28(2), June 2003, pp.196-204.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study explored whether parents of children with three different genetic syndromes, Down syndrome (n~39), Prader-Willi syndrome (n~25), and Williams syndrome (n~26), express divergent desires for modifications in their child's current educational programming. A content analysis was performed on the parents' answers to an open-ended question about how to improve their child's current placement. The parents of children with Down syndrome spontaneously expressed a greater desire for changes or improvements in speech therapy and reading services, the parents of children with Prader-Willi syndrome expressed a desire for increases in adaptive physical education services, and the parents of children with Williams syndrome expressed a desire for increases and modifications to music services and aides in the classroom. Within-syndrome variation was also found in the specific sentiments and desires expressed. Implications for a syndrome-specific approach to special education programming are discussed.