Description
Book SynopsisProviding insight into current research, and comprehensive guidance on recent legislation and policy, this key text offers anyone working or preparing to work with children with SEND with essential academic and theoretical understanding to underpin and inform existing and future practice.
Exploring prime areas in which professionals work directly with children with SEND, chapters broach current issues and debates relating to practice, and examine recent advances in research, policy and legislation in areas including education, health and social care. This interdisciplianry approach, coupled with case studies, points for reflection and clearly signposted activities throughout, gives readers the opportunity to develop a thorough understanding of the complexities surrounding SEND and enables them to relate these to their own practice. Packed with practical tips and examples of best practice, topics discussed include:
- approaches to inclusion, integratio
Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter one: The SEND Professional Chapter two: Safeguarding and Child Protection Chapter three: The Changing Role of the SEND Practitioner Chapter four: Working with Families in the SEND Context Chapter five: Inclusivity, Models and Discourses Chapter six: Introducing Developmental Diversities Chapter seven: Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities and Difficulties Chapter eight: Autism Spectrum Disorder Chapter nine: Attention Disorders (ADD, ADHD) Chapter ten: Dyslexia Chapter eleven: Understanding and Managing Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties Chapter twelve: Chromosomal and Gestational Diversity Index
