This key resource assists stakeholders within any educational institution to provide effective support that is bespoke to the special educational or additional support needs of children and young people and their families and carers. By considering what is possible within the current educational and legislative context, Janice Wearmouth presents a host of evidence-based practical examples of ways to address barriers to learning and achievement across a range of commonly experienced difficulties, as well as highlighting personal lived experiences of those teaching in schools, students and learners.
Janice Wearmouth contextualises current practices and policymaking with discussion of themes that have resonated across the years in the field of special, and, as now, inclusive education and situates these within the often controversial historical and political contexts of treating young people who experience barriers to learning differently. She goes on to guide readers through the very latest legislation, theory and practice across the UK and in doing so provides resource material that will engage and support children and their families in the often-complex world of assessment and planning.
Teachers, SENCOs, Headteachers, families, carers, and anyone else with responsibilities for, or interest in, supporting children and young people who experience special educational or additional support needs will find this an essential and, above all useful, companion.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface
Using the online resources
Introduction
1. Development of special education provision within its societal, political and historical contexts in the U.K. from the early days to Warnock
2. Legislation
3. Understanding human learning and behaviour: models significant in education
4. Difficulties in communication and interaction
5. Focus on difficulties in reading and writing acquisition
6. Cognition and learning
7. Focus on difficulties in numeracy acquisition
8. Social, emotional and mental health difficulties
9. Sensory and physical difficulties
10. Assessment and testing
11. Behaviour management for inclusion
12. Families, carers and internal and external support services
13. Looking into the future
References
Index
About the Author :
Janice Wearmouth is Professor Emerita at the University of Bedfordshire, with wide experience of research and publication nationally and internationally. She has previously published a range of books with Routledge. Most recently these include Social Justice in Practice in Education (2024), Special Educational Needs and Disability the basics, editions 1 to 4 (2012, 2016, 2021, 2023), Pupil, Teacher and Family Voice in Educational Institutions (2019) and Understanding Special Educational Needs and Disability in the Early Years (2018).
