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An educational inconvenience
- Author:
- JONES Keith
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.1.91, 1991, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Education Act 1981, which applied to children with learning difficulties or disabilities, set out to revolutionise the educational provision made for them by local education authorities. Radio 4's investigative programme Face the Facts has raised suspicions that LEAs are tailoring statements of need to fit what they can provide.
Special status
- Author:
- BENNETT Anita
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 75, March 2005, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Investigates the risk to special schools in the drive for inclusion for children with disabilities. A battle is being waged to save schools for children with mental disabilities. The ideology that all children, whatever their special needs, and especially as they reach secondary level, should be educated in mainstream schools is being questioned.
A disabling education: the case of disabled learners in Malaysia
- Authors:
- ADNAN Airil Haimi, HAFIZ Intan Azreena
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(5), August 2001, pp.655-669.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Currently there is a move by the government towards improving the state of education for disabled learners in Malaysia. It is believed that current policy and practice do not meet the needs and requirements of these learners, partly because of the different definitions of disability adopted by various government agencies that are empowered to assist them. Employing a social constructivist framework, these definitions are examined specifically in the way they have been developed into different practices. It is argued that some of the common practices in educating disabled learners are discriminatory and haphazardly planned. The material effects of these practices on the actual provisions of education for these learners are then observed and evaluated. It is suggested that the education system be improved by including disabled learners in mainstream education, so as to help instigate positive changes in the lives of these learners through the wider process of social inclusion.
Programming for special educational needs
- Author:
- DICKINS Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Coordinate, 70, March 1999, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- National Early Years Network
With its SEN Programme of Action, the Government has issued a comprehensive plan for redirecting provision for children with special educational needs. This article provides an overview of the programme's content and calls for coherent local policies to make the best of its intentions.
Disability voice: towards an enabling education
- Author:
- LEICESTER Mal
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 135p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that people have been disabled by society, and that there is a need for educational change. Encourages equal opportunities for disabled people by promoting the practice of enabling education, a 'disability aware' education that caters for everyone's educational needs. Also includes interviews with disabled people, giving their own recommendations for educators and policy makers.
Integrating special children: some ethical issues
- Editors:
- FAIRBAIRN Gavin, FAIRBAIRN Susan
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 175p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Looks at the arguments for and against integration. Includes chapters on: ethical issues; equality; psychological issues; the right to an education; equal opportunities; creating a desirable future for people with significant learning difficulties; and integration, values and society.
The implementation of the 1981 Education Act: policy and provision for special educational needs
- Authors:
- EVANS J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 3, 1987, pp.39-46.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Presents the findings of a research project.
Special needs in ordinary classrooms: an approach to teacher support and pupil care in primary and secondary schools
- Author:
- HANKO Gerald
- Publisher:
- Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 166p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Methods of dealing with children's emotional and behavioural difficulties through the curriculum, increased contact with each other, and parental involvement.
Perspectives of inclusive education in Russia
- Authors:
- LARSKAIA-SMIRNOVA Elena, ROMANOV Pavel
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 10(1), 2007, pp.89-105.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper discusses the issues of exclusion and inclusion of children with disabilities in educational policies. The background and context for inclusion in Russia is described, with a short overview of the history of special education and with the emphasis on the current legislative conditions for inclusion. The article analyzes peculiarities of the hidden curriculum in a Russian boarding school for children with disabilities, and discusses the ways in which special education constructs the students' identities. In particular, practices of socialization in an educational institution for children with motor impairments are considered using the qualitative methodology of ethnographic observation and interviews. In addition, the attitudes of contemporary mainstream school students towards the idea of inclusive education are explored and a case of integration of a disabled child into a regular school setting is considered. Finally, the authors outline some policy recommendations and the prospects for inclusion.
Safeguarding disabled children in residential special schools
- Authors:
- PAUL Alina, CAWSON Pat, PATON Joni
- Publisher:
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 140p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This is a research initiative to promote the care and protection of disabled children living away from home. The project worked with residential special schools for children with severe and multiple physical and learning disabilities, to examine child protection policies and practice. It aimed at identifying and describing good practice models for child welfare and protection. These will be incorporated into practice guidelines to be available for management, staff training and practice development. Findings will also be used to prepare a guide to inform parents on standards of child protection safeguards they should be able to expect while their children are at residential school. Disabled children are among those most likely to spend time in residential institutions. The single largest category of disabled children living away from home - and therefore the primary focus of the proposed work - is children with a variety of complex physical and learning disabilities attending residential special schools. The issue of the protection from abuse of disabled children living in residential settings has received much less attention than the protection of children 'looked after' by local authorities. The paucity of research in this field reflects the low priority often given to the needs of disabled children, and the myth that disabled children are unlikely to be abused. Yet there is evidence, from accounts by disabled adults of their childhood, and from research and practice experience, to suggest that disabled children are at increased risk of abuse.