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Waiting games
- Author:
- NOBLE Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.10.97, 1997, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how one woman's experience of fighting for her autistic son's rights illustrates some of the pitfalls in the government's approach to special education needs.
Putting up a fight
- Author:
- SIMS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 27.7.04, 2004, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
The number of appeals made by parents to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST) has risen sharply in recent months. Looks at the reasons why.
Changing educational opportunities for people with learning difficulties following the Tomlinson Report
- Author:
- DEE Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(3), July 1998, pp.16-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Traces the impact of the report of the Further Education Funding Council's committees on learning difficulties and/or disabilities on educational opportunities for people with learning disabilities. Based on the principle of inclusion, the report made sixty recommendations aimed at improving the quality of further education for people with learning disabilities. While approximately one third of the proposals have now been accepted by the funding council, argues that only legislative reform can achieve the recommended changes to the post-16 curriculum and to inter-agency working.
The structure of arguments used to support or oppose inclusion policies for students with disabilities
- Author:
- COLE Peter G.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 24(3), September 1999, pp.215-225.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the arguments which have been proposed to support or oppose the value of the inclusion model in the education of students with disabilities. The author places the arguments in four categories: consequentialist, justice, rights and the needs argument. discusses the arguments in detail which are commonly used to support or deny policies of inclusion.