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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.
Delivering therapy services for students with high support needs: perceptions of roles, priorities and best practice
- Authors:
- DULE Kim, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 24(3), September 1999, pp.243-263.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Presents the results of a survey of therapists providing services to students with high support needs in New South Wales. The survey examined therapists perceptions of their roles, criteria used to set priorities for therapy services, decision making authority and agreement with best practice related to the collaborative team approach and implementation of those practices. Practices associated with a collaborative team approach received both a higher level of agreement and reported implementation than practices not associated with the approach.
Including ADHD?
- Authors:
- LLOYD Gwynedd, NORRIS Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(4), July 1999, pp.505-517.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article tries to make sense of the recent rise of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Britain by focussing on the contribution of the press, parents organisations, 'experts' and the drug companies, in the context of the current marketisation of education and health services. It draws on findings from a research project which studies press coverage of ADHD, and argues that the existence of active parents' organisations pushing for medical diagnosis and drug treatment for their children presents a challenge to thinking about inclusion.
Resourced schools help bring children into the mainstream
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 35, February 1999, p.4.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Looks at how Stockport has improved prospects to inclusive education.
On a wing and a prayer: inclusion and children with severe learning difficulties
- Authors:
- LACEY Penny, et al
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 56p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study looking at the work of Learning Support Assistants in working with children with learning difficulties and severe learning difficulties who are in inclusive learning settings in schools.
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.
Services for children with learning disability: international perspectives on residential child care
- Editor:
- BARLOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- University of Strathclyde. Centre for Residential Child Care
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Includes papers on: services for children with learning difficulties; between the ideal and the reality; exploring the relationship of the child educator; the Camphill Diploma Course in Curative Education; respite care in the Ottawa Rotary Home; a holistic approach at the Linn Moor Special Residential School; twenty two years of residential care for special needs children; education, care and therapy at the St. Margaret's School; the network family programme in Tasmania; and putting the concept of quality of care into operation.