Special Educational Needs: A Guide for Inclusive Practice
A Paperback edition by Lindsay Peer in English (Jan 14, 2016)
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Short Description: Covering contemporary policy issues, perspectives from practice and a range of common syndromes and barriers Special Educational Needs presents a wealth of information and guidance... Read more
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Covering contemporary policy issues, perspectives from practice and a range of common syndromes and barriers Special Educational Needs presents a wealth of information and guidance for students and professionals on how to achieve effective, inclusive practice.
Second edition features include:
· fully revised annotated further readings and links to useful websites;
· a new chapter on Autism and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)
· a new chapter on Down Syndrome
· updated reference to legislation, including the SEND Code of Practice (2014)
· updated case studies covering 0-18 age range
This comprehensive course text is ideal for students, teachers, practitioners and specialists, and provides a solid foundation for understanding and supporting learners with additional needs.
Special Educational Needs Paperback edition by Lindsay Peer
Product Details
Product Specification
- Edited by
- Lindsay Peer
- Edited by
- Gavin Reid
- ISBN-13
- 9781473904545
- Format
- Paperback,
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication date
- Jan 14, 2016
- Edition
- Edition Number 2; Revised
- Pages
- 416
- Product dimensions
- 186 x 231 x 21mm
- Weight
- 732g
1. Introduction - Gavin Reid and Lindsay Peer
PART I: Policy, Practice and Provision
2. Special and additional support needs in England and Scotland -current dilemmas and solutions - Sheila Riddell, Elisabet Weedon and Neville Harris
3. The state of the research - compromise, consensus or disarray? - Elias Avramidis and Brahm Norwich
4. Inclusion and special educational needs - a dialogic inquiry into controversial issues - Artemi Sakellariadis
5. The potential impact and influence of the social model of disability - Charles Weedon
PART II: Perspectives from Practice
6. Speech and language - Janet O'Keefe and Janet Farrugia
7. Auditory processing disorder - Tony Sirimanna
8. Developmental co-ordination disorder and dyspraxia from an occupational therapist's perspective - Jane Abdullah
9. Vision and learning - Keith Holland and Clare Holland
10. Good practice in training specialist teachers and assessors of people with dyslexia - Sheena Bell and Bernadette McLean
11. Literacy - Margaret Crombie
12. Mathematics learning difficulties and dyscalculia - Steve Chinn
PART III: Syndromes and Barriers
13. Students with Down syndrome in inclusive classrooms: Using evidence-based practices - Iva Strnadova and David Evans
14. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (or hyperkinetic disorder) - Richard Soppitt
15. Visual impairment and mainstream education: beyond mere awareness raising - John Ravenscroft
16. Students with hearing loss - Jill Duncan
17. Autistic spectrum disorder: challenges, issues and responses - Gavin Reid, Sionah Lannen and Colin Lannen
18. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) Treatment and Research - Jo-Ann Page
19 Understanding Tourette syndrome - Judy Barrow
PART IV: Working Together
20. The role and perspectives of practitioner educational psychologists - Kevin Woods
21. Expert Evidence: Changes in the Law - John Friel
22. Parents' perspectives - Gavin Reid, Lindsay Peer, Susan Strachan and Jo-Ann Page
Categories
Education Teaching Resources Educational Strategies & Policy
Education Teaching Resources Educational Strategies & Policy Inclusive Education / Mainstreaming
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LoginAuthor Biography

Dr Lindsay Peer CBE, Educational & Chartered Psychologist, International Speaker, Author & Expert Witness, Lindsay is widely recognised as an expert in the range of specific learning difficulties, SEN & mainstream education. In 2002 she was appointed CBE for services to Education & Dyslexia. In 2011 she was awarded the Outstanding Lifetime Academic Achievement Award by the British Dyslexia Association (BDA). She is Patron of GroOops, a charity dedicated to creating an emotionally healthy dyslexia aware world. She has lectured extensively as keynote speaker internationally since the late 1980s & advises governments, trade unions, policy makers, lawyers, adults, schools, psychologists, therapists & parents.
She is an Associate Fellow & Chartered Scientist of the British Psychological Society & a Fellow of both the International Academy of Research in Learning Disabilities & the Royal Society of Arts. She is a member of the Association of Child Psychologists in Private Practice & of the Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH). She is registered to practice with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She has been a keynote speaker in the UK, USA, India, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Israel, Iceland, Norway, Italy, Spain, Majorca, Greece, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Cyprus, the Czech Republic and Holland.
She held the posts of Education Director & Deputy CEO of the BDA until 2003. She has many years' experience as a teacher, teacher trainer & SENCo. She has published a considerable body of material both theoretical & practical & published the first ground-breaking book linking `Glue Ear' with Dyslexia. She assesses children, students and adults facing challenges in learning. Her email is: [email protected] and website: www.peergordonassociates.co.uk.
Dr. Gavin Reid is an international consultant and psychologist with consultancies in Canada, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australasia. He was visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in the Department of Education and Counseling Psychology and Special Education in 2007 and 2010.
He is an ambassador for the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre in the UK and is also a consultant for the Child Enrichment Medical Centre in Dubai, the Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) in Kuwait and for the Institute of Child Education and Psychology Europe (ICEPE).
He is also currently a consultant to the Open University in the UK and co-founder and director of the Red Rose School for children with specific learning difficulties in St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire, UK. He is a visiting educational psychologist to organizations and schools in Switzerland, the UK, Middle East, Asia and Egypt.
He was formerly senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies (formally dept. of Special Education), Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh from 1991-2007. He has written twenty eight books on learning, motivation and dyslexia and lectured to thousands of professionals and parents in 75 countries. He has also had books published in Polish, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Chinese and Slovak. He is an experienced teacher with over 10 years experience in the classroom and has held external examiner appointments at 18 universities worldwide for Ph.D and masters courses.
His e mail is [email protected] and website www.drgavinreid.com