The siblings of children with special needs are often the overlooked ones in families struggling to cope. The author is an experienced health professional and journalist who has a sister with cerebral palsy. In this book she shares the story of her journey from confusion and distress to understanding and acceptance. She provides a forum for other siblings to describe their own journeys. She also provides strategies that siblings themselves, parents and practitioners can use to support the brothers and sisters of children with special needs.
The siblings of children with special needs are often the overlooked ones in families struggling to cope. The author is an experienced health professional and journalist who has a sister with cerebral palsy. In this book she shares the story of her journey from confusion and distress to understanding and acceptance. She provides a forum for other siblings to describe their own journeys. She also provides strategies that siblings themselves, parents and practitioners can use to support the brothers and sisters of children with special needs.
This book was written after speaking with 15 parents of children with special educational needs throughout Scotland about their child’s experiences of inclusive education in mainstream school. The families interviewed included children and young people at all stages of education from nursery right through to 18 year olds just about to leave school, and a range of experiences of education and inclusion from very positive to very negative. The experiences that are recounted in this book are real life illustrations of what it is like for families to include their children in mainstream schools in Scotland today. These accounts provide practical examples of what works and what doesn’t work to make pupils and their families feel like an included part of their chosen mainstream school. The book explores all aspects of school inclusion including the policy context, access to information, planning and support of inclusive placements, legal exclusions from mainstream school and the benefits of inclusion for everyone.
This book was written after speaking with 15 parents of children with special educational needs throughout Scotland about their child’s experiences of inclusive education in mainstream school. The families interviewed included children and young people at all stages of education from nursery right through to 18 year olds just about to leave school, and a range of experiences of education and inclusion from very positive to very negative. The experiences that are recounted in this book are real life illustrations of what it is like for families to include their children in mainstream schools in Scotland today. These accounts provide practical examples of what works and what doesn’t work to make pupils and their families feel like an included part of their chosen mainstream school. The book explores all aspects of school inclusion including the policy context, access to information, planning and support of inclusive placements, legal exclusions from mainstream school and the benefits of inclusion for everyone.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, parent-child relations, physical disabilities, placement, school children, school exclusion, special education, special educational needs, children, education;
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.
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.
Subject terms:
inclusive education, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, policy, schools, special education, special educational needs, children;
Disability and Society, 19(2), March 2004, pp.171-178.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Until the mid-1990s, debates about integration tended to focus on the rights of disabled children to attend mainstream schools. However, more recent research has raised new concerns about the politics of integration from the 'standards' perspective. This Internet-based research project was designed to follow the 20 secondary schools in England, where more than 10% of the pupils had statements of special educational needs (SEN). Several of these schools are now being threatened with closure. This is either because they are failing to meet the Government's benchmark targets of 5+GCSEs at grades A-C, or because they are failing to attract sufficient numbers of mainstream pupils. However, these schools may well be seen as popular and successful by the parents of pupils with statements of special educational needs. Little appears to be known about how schools juggle these competing priorities successfully, and the author calls on readers of this journal to promote our understanding and their survival through a national conference.
Until the mid-1990s, debates about integration tended to focus on the rights of disabled children to attend mainstream schools. However, more recent research has raised new concerns about the politics of integration from the 'standards' perspective. This Internet-based research project was designed to follow the 20 secondary schools in England, where more than 10% of the pupils had statements of special educational needs (SEN). Several of these schools are now being threatened with closure. This is either because they are failing to meet the Government's benchmark targets of 5+GCSEs at grades A-C, or because they are failing to attract sufficient numbers of mainstream pupils. However, these schools may well be seen as popular and successful by the parents of pupils with statements of special educational needs. Little appears to be known about how schools juggle these competing priorities successfully, and the author calls on readers of this journal to promote our understanding and their survival through a national conference.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, quality assurance, school children, schools, secondary schools, special education, special educational needs, children, childrens rights;
GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education and Skills
Publisher:
Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
Publication year:
2004
Pagination:
93p.
Place of publication:
Nottingham
All children have the right to a good education and the opportunity to fulfil their potential. All teachers should expect to teach children with special educational needs (SEN) and all schools should play their part in educating children from their local community,whatever their background or ability. This strategy follows discussion with a wide range of practitioners and policy makers in local authorities, the health service and the voluntary sector, as well as children and young people. It sets out the Government’s vision for the education of children with SEN and disabilities. It provides clear national leadership, supported by an ambitious programme of sustained action and review, nationally and locally, over a number of years, in four key areas: early intervention to ensure that children who have difficulties learning receive the help they need as soon as possible and that parents of children with SEN and disabilities have access to suitable childcare; removing barriers to learning, by embedding inclusive practice to every school and early years setting; Raising expectations and achievement by developing teachers’ skills and strategies for meeting the needs of children with SEN and sharpening our focus on the progress made by children with SEN; and delivering improvements in partnership taking a hands-on approach to improvement so that parents can be confident that their child will get the education they need.
All children have the right to a good education and the opportunity to fulfil their potential. All teachers should expect to teach children with special educational needs (SEN) and all schools should play their part in educating children from their local community,whatever their background or ability. This strategy follows discussion with a wide range of practitioners and policy makers in local authorities, the health service and the voluntary sector, as well as children and young people. It sets out the Government’s vision for the education of children with SEN and disabilities. It provides clear national leadership, supported by an ambitious programme of sustained action and review, nationally and locally, over a number of years, in four key areas: early intervention to ensure that children who have difficulties learning receive the help they need as soon as possible and that parents of children with SEN and disabilities have access to suitable childcare; removing barriers to learning, by embedding inclusive practice to every school and early years setting; Raising expectations and achievement by developing teachers’ skills and strategies for meeting the needs of children with SEN and sharpening our focus on the progress made by children with SEN; and delivering improvements in partnership taking a hands-on approach to improvement so that parents can be confident that their child will get the education they need.
Subject terms:
joint working, intervention, parent-child relations, physical disabilities, school social work, special education, special educational needs, children, Department for Education and Skills, early intervention, education, education law, educational performance;
GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education and Skills
Publisher:
Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
Publication year:
2004
Pagination:
24p.
Place of publication:
Nottingham
All children have the right to a good education and the opportunity to fulfil their potential. All teachers should expect to teach children with special educational needs (SEN) and all schools should play their part in educating children from their local community,whatever their background or ability. This strategy follows discussion with a wide range of practitioners and policy makers in local authorities, the health service and the voluntary sector, as well as children and young people. It sets out the Government’s vision for the education of children with SEN and disabilities. It provides clear national leadership, supported by an ambitious programme of sustained action and review, nationally and locally, over a number of years, in four key areas: early intervention to ensure that children who have difficulties learning receive the help they need as soon as possible and that parents of children with SEN and disabilities have access to suitable childcare; removing barriers to learning, by embedding inclusive practice to every school and early years setting; Raising expectations and achievement by developing teachers’ skills and strategies for meeting the needs of children with SEN and sharpening our focus on the progress made by children with SEN; and delivering improvements in partnership taking a hands-on approach to improvement so that parents can be confident that their child will get the education they need.
All children have the right to a good education and the opportunity to fulfil their potential. All teachers should expect to teach children with special educational needs (SEN) and all schools should play their part in educating children from their local community,whatever their background or ability. This strategy follows discussion with a wide range of practitioners and policy makers in local authorities, the health service and the voluntary sector, as well as children and young people. It sets out the Government’s vision for the education of children with SEN and disabilities. It provides clear national leadership, supported by an ambitious programme of sustained action and review, nationally and locally, over a number of years, in four key areas: early intervention to ensure that children who have difficulties learning receive the help they need as soon as possible and that parents of children with SEN and disabilities have access to suitable childcare; removing barriers to learning, by embedding inclusive practice to every school and early years setting; Raising expectations and achievement by developing teachers’ skills and strategies for meeting the needs of children with SEN and sharpening our focus on the progress made by children with SEN; and delivering improvements in partnership taking a hands-on approach to improvement so that parents can be confident that their child will get the education they need.
Subject terms:
joint working, intervention, parent-child relations, physical disabilities, school social work, special education, special educational needs, children, Department for Education and Skills, early intervention, education, education law, educational performance;