Providing a guide to strategic management in the field of special educational needs, this text gives the reader a framework for raising achievement throughout the school. By focusing on how to manage SEN strategically it shows how you can make it part of the overall school improvement process.

This guide provides reader-friendly, easy-to-access information about the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice and what it means for the early years practitioner. It prunes away the jargon of the DfEE documents, allowing the busy teacher to easily focus on the aspects they want to explore.

Looks in detail at the stigma surrounding suicide and offers practical help for survivors, relatives and friends of people who have taken their own life.

Designed to appeal to a wide general as well as a professional readership, this work looks at the stigma surrounding suicide and offers practical help for survivors, relatives and friends of people who have taken their own life.

Giving a picture of the work of special schools, this book is useful for those teaching or planning to teach in special schools in the United Kingdom. It provides suggestions on how special schools may be developed. It address topics such as adapting the curriculum to give special schools more flexibility.

Presenting a rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, this work contains writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values.

Revised in the light of developments in practice since the first edition, this text discusses children's language development in the context of the classroom. The book is designed to help the practitioner to understand the range of language difficulties experienced by children.

A guide to basic phonetic theory. It includes examples from a range of languages, and provides many exercises with solutions and cross references. This book helps develop the fundamental skills of the phonetician; investigates the various aspects involved in the production of speech sounds; and more.