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Supporting pupils with special health needs in mainstream schools: policy and practice
- Authors:
- LIGHTFOOT Jane, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 15(2), April 2001, pp.57-69.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
A growing number of pupils in mainstream schools may have health-related support needs in respect of a chronic illness or physical disability. Data from research study investigating these needs and carried out between 1996 and 1998 are used to reflect on the position of this group of pupils within policy guidance on special educational needs and medical needs. Evidence of confusion and ambiguity, both in the guidance and its interpretation, suggests that the needs of this group remain somewhat hidden. More recent developments in special needs policy guidance are discussed in terms of the prospect for strengthening support for this group of pupils.
Each belongs: integrated education in Canada
- Author:
- SHAW Linda
- Publisher:
- Centre for Studies on Integration in Education
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The goal of the Hamilton and Waterloo Catholic School Boards in Ontario, Canada, is to meet the needs of all children in age-appropriate classes in neighbourhood schools. There are no special schools. This report describes local school board policy and practice, covers integration strategies, including some detailed case studies, and investigates the parents’ perspective. It captures the spirit of these inclusive school communities in a series of integration strategies including some case studies and investigates the parents’ perspectives.
Needs must
- Author:
- LIGHTFOOT Liz
- Journal article citation:
- 0-19, May 2004, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business
The government wants children with special needs to be taught in mainstream schools. Asks whether the schools have the resources and whether they are willing to teach these children.
Disabled children and residential schools: a study of local authority policy and practice
- Author:
- ABBOTT David
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. Norah Fry Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 66p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Report presenting the findings of the first stage of a research project on disabled children and residential schools. The overall study is looking at the effectiveness of current legislation and guidance in protecting and promoting the interests of disabled children who attend residential schools and is also examining: the circumstances in which disabled children are placed in residential schools; the extent to which disabled children are involved in the decision to place them at boarding school; and how disabled children's relationships with their families are affected by going to residential school and what schools and local authorities do to nurture these relationships. This report focuses in particular on the policies and practices of a sample of twenty one education and social services departments
School choice, markets and special educational needs
- Authors:
- BAGLEY Carl, WOODS Philip A.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(5), November 1998, pp.763-783.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article investigates the ways in which schools competing within the educational marketplace perceive and respond to the needs of parents of SEN students, and considers the perspectives, experiences and values of these parents relating to school choice. The findings reveal the pressures on senior school managers and the difficulties encountered by parents of SEN students are increasingly marginalised and devalued.
Rivers of pain, bridges of hope: a selection of articles
- Author:
- DAVIS Leonard
- Publisher:
- Writers' and Publishers' Cooperative
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 329p.
- Place of publication:
- Hong Kong