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Experiences of an integration link scheme: the perspectives of pupils with severe learning difficulties and their mainstream peers
- Author:
- BEVERIDGE Sally
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(1), 1996, pp.9-19.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Warnock Committee (1978) was of the view that the education of children with special educational needs would be enhanced by closer working links between mainstream and special schools and recommended that these should be established. This paper explores the perspectives of pupils involved in an integration link. Data from the mainstream pupils and the special school group demonstrated a generally positive acceptance of the scheme. However, profiles of individual pupils from the special school group revealed significant variations in the ways they respond to the opportunity for interaction with their mainstream peers. This article argues that if integration schemes are to promote successful interactive experiences for all the pupils involved, then aspects of individual diversity need to be taken into account.
Raising the achievements of pupils with special educational needs
- Author:
- DAVIE Ron
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 124, March 1996, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
The author, a Consulting Psychologist, reflects on the real avenues to achievement for children with special educational needs while cautioning us to be wary of a system which, however positively, insists on rendering these children 'different'.
Special needs provision: assessment, concern and action
- Author:
- SEWELL Geof
- Publisher:
- Cassell
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 205p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed primarily at teachers, but also useful for all those involved with children with special needs. Looks at practical ways of meeting children's special educational needs in the context of the ordinary classroom. Includes chapters on: special needs coordinators; school-based assessment; speaking and listening in the assessment process; inservice training in reading; talented and more able pupils; emotional and behavioural difficulties; attendance; and integrating statemented pupils.
Options for partnership between health, education and social services
- Author:
- DESSENT Tony
- Publisher:
- National Association for Special Educational Needs
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- Tamworth
Includes seminar papers on: options for partnerships in meeting special educational needs between health, social and education services; options for paternships with social services - a local authority perspective; and options for partnership - a discussion.
Access to current genetic investigations for children with special educational needs
- Authors:
- MORRITT Jennifer, WATERSTON Tony, MAGNAY Dorothy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(4), 1996, pp.164-166.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The association between chromosome abnormalities and learning disability is well known and the important contribution made by the fragile-X syndrome is recognised. With the increasingly sensitive tests that are now available, a more precise diagnosis is often possible: yet many individuals with learning difficulties have not had recent investigation. The offer of genetic investigation as a part of the statutory Reassessment of Special Educational Needs in one secondary school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne is described.
Foucault and special educational needs: a box of tools for analysing children's experiences of mainstreaming
- Author:
- ALLAN Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(2), 1996, pp.219-233.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Research on children with special educational needs in mainstream schools, based on simplistic notions of integration, has revealed very little about the nature of their school experiences. A Foucauldian perspective is proposed as an alternative, and the relevance of his methodology, which focuses on formal and informal discourses, and his analyses is discussed. It is argued that Foucault offers a set of strategies for understanding how the discourses on special educational needs construct both the pupil's experiences in mainstream schools and their identities, as constructed subjects and objects of knowledge. Ends with a brief illustration of what a Foucauldian analysis might look like.
Community care law update
- Author:
- COLLINS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 233, April 1996, pp.59-62.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
Community care is a new and rapidly expanding area of law. The author, examines some important recent developments by using recent case examples covering the assessment of need; assessment of special educational needs; closure of local authority residential homes; homelessness and community care; and contracting out care services.