This handbook will give aspiring and practising SENCOs, teachers and Headteachers an in-depth knowledge and understanding of effective policy, provision and practice to meet the diverse needs of children with special educational needs and disabilities.

This book guides practitioners to not only meet the requirements, but improve outcomes for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in line with the new SEND Code of Practice.

The fully revised third edition to Corinna Laurie's Sensory and Motor Strategies, an essential resource for professionals working with children on the autism spectrum. It sets out practical strategies to build independence and develop sensory and motor skills, with additional information on topics including dressing and self-regulation.

This title provides help for practitioners on how to identify sensory difficulties and how to respond quickly and appropriately to them. These include children who have mild to severe visual or hearing impairment and a few children who are registered blind or deaf.

Short and accessible, it explains what attachment means and how to recognise attachment disorder in children. It offers practical advice and strategies which parents and professionals can use with children affected by an attachment disorder. This second edition includes the revised DSM-5 criteria.

Concerns the treatment of six children who were unable for various reasons to talk. This book describes their progress as they are gently guided by the author towards communication, first without language using toys and games, and then gradually to the ability to speak. All were able to begin normal schooling after the treatment.

One day the author's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again. Christopher was diagnosed with epilepsy. This book tells the remarkable story of this strange and misunderstood disorder.

This text aims to help raise literacy standards, using the philosophy that language is the foundation of all learning. The practical advice and information will help teachers to address language difficulties in the classroom context and plan an integrated language policy.

This book looks closely and critically at current thinking on the role the internet plays in the multi-faceted areas of SEN, drawing on the experience of various major names in the field.

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 book is a comprehensive textbook which discusses the major issues in special education.

Looks at the philosophical debates surrounding special educational needs and inclusion. This edition highlights the critical perspectives that philosophy can bring to bear on the education policy and provides a varied discussion of the issues. It aims to stimulate debate and to contribute to better informed educational initiatives.

The Special Educator's Tool Kit

In the Third Edition of this respected and influential textbook, Kate Wall blends theory and practice with an informative and highly accessible writing style to provide a detailed analysis of provision for young children with additional needs.

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.

Fully up to date with the SEND Code of Practice this book explores all the key contemporary issues relevant to supporting children with special needs in an early years context. Combining theory with practice, it demonstrates how to ensure children's individual needs are at the heart of early years provision.

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.

Using 35 years of on-the-job experience, Diana Hudson has updated the essential guide to supporting children with SpLD's. Embracing the change in thoughts and language surrounding neurodiversity, this new edition will help professionals and parents alike to learn and engage with the discussion around how to best help students with SpLD's.