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Special Needs: What to Know and What to Do

Special Needs: What to Know and What to Do

By: 

£45.00

Phase: 

  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Post-16

ISBN: 

978-1-906517-80-9

Published: 

Apr 2010

“Parents – and experts – fear that a proliferation of independent schools under the new Government could leave children with SEN out in the cold.”
Fiona Miller, The Guardian, 22/06/10

Special Needs: What to Know and What to Do is designed to help Special Needs Coordinators understand and know how to respond to students with special needs.

This invaluable resource will ensure that your staff have a consistent and coherent approach to the support offered to young people in your school, no matter what changes may lie ahead.

Books and Training Products: If you are in the UK, your order should usually arrive within 7 working days. Please allow up to two weeks for deliveries outside the UK. Please note that some books and training packs are available to pre-order prior to publication; they will not be delivered until they are published.

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Benefits

Special Needs: What to Know and What to Do will:

  • Provide you with a consistent approach when supporting special needs children
  • Provide every member of staff, parents and carers with a source of information and understanding
  • Provide the opportunity to establish more confidence between staff and parents/carers by showing that the school is prepared
  • Help you identify and support students in your school with special needs.

Special Needs: What to Know and What to Do is the first book in a three book series that sets out how to provide school staff with the material to identify and support the three areas of: Special Needs, Behavioural Difficulties and Medical Conditions.

Summary of contents

This book covers over 20 different conditions and each topic is broken down into the following six sections:

  1. Introduction and definition
  2. Detailed description
  3. Strategies and arrangements to support students
  4. Case study and activity
  5. Information handout
  6. Sources of help and support (colleagues, websites, further reading and references)

Special Needs: What to Know and What to Do will provide:

  • an extensive reference source of information about common and unusual special needs
  • a comprehensive school based resource to assist with your CPD
  • basic awareness and planning needs for staff
  • case studies and activities to use in staff meetings
  • a useful referencing source

Details

A4 ring binder, 318 pages Accompanying CD-ROM