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Promoting Resilience in the Classroom – By Carmel CefaiEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Paul C. Colewood Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Arts, Culture and Blindness: a study of blind students in the visual arts – By Simon HayhoeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Tom Muldowney Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Alphabet Kids: from ADD to Zellweger syndrome: a guide to developmental, neurobiological and psychological disorders for parents and professionals – By Robbie WoliverEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Margaret Cousins Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

The Routledge Companion to Dyslexia – Edited by Gavin ReidEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Tony Cline Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Politics Page UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Ruth Germain Tags: Politics Source Type: journals

Points from the SENCo-ForumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Tags: SENCo-Forum Source Type: journals

Inclusive special education: the role of special education teachers in FinlandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study concentrates on the work of special education teachers in mainstream education in Finland, where these professionals work with children from various classes, usually in a separate room. The research reported in this article by Marjatta Takala of the University of Helsinki, Raija Pirttimaa of the University of Oulu and Minna Törmänen, who is studying for her PhD at the University of Helsinki, involved sending a questionnaire to 133 special education teachers and undertaking observations. The work of the special education teachers was revealed to consist of three elements: teaching, consulting and background wor...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Marjatta Takala, Raija Pirttimaa, Minna Törmänen Tags: Research Section Source Type: journals

Examining the nature and perceived causes of indiscipline in Zimbabwean secondary schoolsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study, by Lawrence Kofi Ametepee, who is studying for a PhD in special education, Morgan Chitiyo, board certified behaviour analyst and Assistant Professor of Special Education, both at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA, and Susan Abu, who is currently a graduate student in the Department of Women's Studies at Texas Women's University, was designed to examine the nature and perceived causes of student indiscipline in Zimbabwean secondary schools. The authors anticipate that such an examination will promote teachers', parents' and policy makers' understanding of student indiscipline, which will, in turn, en...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Lawrence K. Ametepee, Morgan Chitiyo, Susan Abu Tags: Research Section Source Type: journals

The role of teachers in the assessment of children suspected of having AD/HDEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the light of recent guidance published by The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on the diagnosis and management of attention deficit disorders in children, young persons and adults, Gill Salmon, a consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based in Swansea, South Wales, and Amanda Kirby, Professor of Developmental Disorders in Education based at the University of Wales, Newport, give an overview of the rationale for involving teachers in the assessment of children with AD/HD and the development and implementation of subsequent educational interventions. They also review the resulting trainin...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Gill Salmon, Amanda Kirby Tags: AD/HD Source Type: journals

Inclusion and museums: developing inclusive practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article, by Hannah Shepherd, Exhibition Co-ordinator at Freeman College in Sheffield, analyses an example of a specific exhibit within a gallery development. This example reflects an approach that uses guidance from the literature to create a more inclusive experience for visitors, particularly those with learning difficulties. A case is made for the use of consultation and partnership to develop inclusive museum provision. (Source: British Journal of Special Education)
Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Hannah Shepherd Tags: Focus on Practice Source Type: journals

The integration of an alternative curriculum: Skill ForceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The introduction of alternative curricula in the UK for students in the secondary phase is one of a number of strategies designed to improve attendance at school, reduce exclusion and improve attainment. Skill Force is a charitable youth initiative that offers 14- to 16-year-old students a key skills based vocational alternative to the traditional curriculum. In this article, Lynne Rogers, Susan Hallam and Jacquelene Shaw of the Institute of Education, University of London, and Jasmine Rhamie of the University of Southampton set out to explore the views of Skill Force instructors and team leaders, school staff and Skill Fo...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Lynne Rogers, Susan Hallam, Jacquelene Shaw, Jasmine Rhamie Tags: Alternative Curriculum Source Type: journals

EditorialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - September 1, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Richard Byers Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals

Teaching Play to Children with Autism – practical interventions using Identiplay – By Nicky Phillips and Liz BeavanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Cathy Smith Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Building Blocks for Learning, Occupational Therapy Approaches: practical strategies for the inclusion of special needs in primary school – By Jill Jenkinson, Tessa Hyde and Saffia AhmadEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Brenda McDonald Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Autism: an integrated view from neurocognitive, clinical, and intervention research – Edited by Evelyn McGregor, Maria Nunez, Katie Cebula and Juan Carlos GomezEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Ruth Germain Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Implementing Inclusive Education: a Commonwealth guide to implementing Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – By Richard RieserEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Peter Mittler Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Politics Page UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Ruth Germain Tags: Politics Source Type: journals

Procedures and processes in special needs provisionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Tags: Points from the SENCo-Forum Source Type: journals

Transition partnerships: the views of education professionals and staff in support services for young people with learning disabilitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Transition to post-statutory education and employment for young people with learning disabilities has become a hotly debated issue among professionals in education and support services in the UK. Partnerships between educational institutions and voluntary sector providers are supposed to be ideal vehicles for delivering transition services and securing outcomes for young people with learning disabilities. In this article, Axel Kaehne and Stephen Bayer of the Welsh Centre for Learning Difficulties report the findings of a survey of the views of special educational needs co-ordinators and professionals who are involved at op...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Axel Kaehne, Stephen Beyer Tags: Research Section Source Type: journals

School attendance and attainment: poor attenders' perceptions of schoolwork and parental involvement in their educationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Because of established links with attainment, the UK government has, over the last ten years, developed policies to improve school attendance. Legislation now makes school attendance a parental responsibility. In the small-scale study reported in this article, Anne Sheppard, manager of an Education Welfare Service Team in North Yorkshire, collected data on 57 pupils' attitudes to school and schoolwork and their perceptions of their parents' involvement in their education. In order to examine the role of these variables in relation to school attendance, 'good' and 'poor' attenders of 12 to 13 years of age, matched for abili...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Anne Sheppard Tags: Research Section Source Type: journals

Reactions to a diagnosis of dyslexia among students entering further education: development of the 'resistance–accommodation' modelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research into the psychological consequences of receiving a diagnosis of dyslexia during adolescence is a newly emerging field. In this article, David Armstrong, senior lecturer in education at Edge Hill University, and Neil Humphrey, senior lecturer in the psychology of Education at the University of Manchester, report on a qualitative study which explored this issue with a group of 20 students with dyslexia in a large college of further education in the north-west of England. Drawing on the outcomes of individual interviews and focus groups, analysis of student responses led to the development of a provisional 'resistanc...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: David Armstrong, Neil Humphrey Tags: Research Section Source Type: journals

Sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviour among pupils in special schoolsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article, Rachel Fyson of the Centre for Social Work in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham reports the findings of a study into sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviour occurring between pupils in special schools in four local authorities in England. The behaviours identified ranged from relatively minor misconduct, such as exposure of genitals and use of sexualised language, through to serious acts of sexual abuse, including rape. Although the majority (88%) of special schools had noted sexualised behaviours of some kind on a regular basis, only a minority (19%) had specifi...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Rachel Fyson Tags: Research Section Source Type: journals

'Inclusion is more than a place': exploring pupil views and voice in Belfast schools through visual narrativeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The research reported in this article by David Ryan, an adviser for special educational needs and inclusion in Belfast, was based on a participatory approach in which young people in a number of schools were encouraged to develop their ideas about inclusion. The project set out to explore any differences in perceptions between pupils with special educational needs and those without. The young people were equipped with cameras and were encouraged to generate 'visual narratives' expressing their views about the 'reasonable adjustments' that mainstream schools might make in order to become more inclusive. David Ryan concludes...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: David Ryan Tags: Pupils' Views on Inclusion Source Type: journals

Reflections upon teacher education in severe difficulties in the USA: shared concerns about quantity and qualityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this article, Phyllis Jones of the Department of Special Education at the University of South Florida and Elizabeth West from the University of Washington explore key issues in respect to teacher education for teachers who teach pupils with severe and profound learning difficulties in the USA. Issues relating to quantity and quality of teachers are discussed in the context of policy and practice in the USA. Reflections related to teacher education delivery in the USA, in terms of case-based learning and distance education, for example, and the content of teacher education courses, for example, in terms of helping teache...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Phyllis Jones, Elizabeth West Tags: Teacher Education Source Type: journals

EditorialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - May 31, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Richard Byers Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals

Beating Bureaucracy in Special Educational Needs – By Jean GrossEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Lynne Sedgewick Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Parenting and Inclusive Education: discovering difference, experiencing difficulty – By Chrissie RogersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Fran Russell Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Autism, Discrimination and the Law: a quick guide for parents, educators and employers – By James GrahamEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Mark Blois Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Dyslexia-Friendly Practice in the Secondary Classroom – By Tilly Mortimore and Jane DupreeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Glynnis Smith Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Peer Mediation: citizenship in social inclusion revisited – By Hilary CreminEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Chris Lee Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

Politics Page UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Ruth Germain Tags: Politics Source Type: journals

Putting inclusion into practice 2Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Klaus Wedell Tags: Points from the SENCo-Forum Source Type: journals

Out of sight, out of mind? Transition for young people with learning difficulties in out-of-area residential special schools and collegesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Young people with learning difficulties who go to residential special schools and colleges are highly vulnerable, often living a long way from home. Transition towards adulthood [ndash] from school to college, or college and beyond [ndash] requires careful planning and support for both young people and their families. Despite national policy and guidance in this area, this article suggests that young people with learning difficulties in out-of-area placements are being failed in terms of transition education and face huge uncertainty and very limited choices. David Abbott and Pauline Heslop, both Senior Research Fellows at...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: David Abbott, Pauline Heslop Tags: Research Section Source Type: journals

A qualitative comparison of perceived stress and coping in adolescents with and without autistic spectrum disorders as they approach leaving schoolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
During the research reported in this article, differences in perceived stress and coping between adolescents with and without autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) were examined by a series of interviews. Emphasis was placed on examining the issue with regard to the prospective transition at the point of leaving secondary education. Ten pupils with autism and seven without any identified disorder were interviewed. The participants with ASD indicated worry about specific objects and social relations; demonstrated a lack of external expression of their stress; and indicated a reliance on self, rather than others, for help. Those...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: James Browning, Lisa A. Osborne, Phil Reed Tags: Research Section Source Type: journals

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder or attention seeking? Ways of distinguishing two common childhood problemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nigel Mellor recently retired from his work with the educational psychology service in North Tyneside. In this article, he proposes that attention-seeking behaviour may lead to major difficulties at home and school and indicates the ways in which recent research is beginning to clarify the area. Attention deficit disorders also cause great concern. However, the extremely widespread range of attention-seeking behaviours may easily lead to their being confused with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). Nigel Mellor explores ways to distinguish these two behaviour problems. This, he argues, may help target interve...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Nigel Mellor Tags: AD/HD Source Type: journals

Including students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in mainstream schoolsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Around 80% of pupils with attention deficit disorders are educated in mainstream schools. The difficulties relating to inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity experienced by such pupils present mainstream educators with a unique set of challenges and opportunities. In this article, Neil Humphrey, Senior Lecturer in the Psychology of Education at the University of Manchester, presents and discusses key evidence-based strategies and approaches to facilitate the inclusion of pupils affected by attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). These include the need to reframe AD/HD, to understand the role of medication, to...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Neil Humphrey Tags: Focus on Practice Source Type: journals

Drama: narrative pedagogy and socially challenged childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Melanie Peter, Senior Lecturer in Education and Early Childhood at Anglia Ruskin University, argues that the ability to engage in narrative stems from early interactive play formats and is essential for perceiving patterns and sequences in life [ndash] the fabric of social understanding. Developing themes set out in her earlier work, this article presents a rationale and developmental model for drama as narrative pedagogy. Whether narrative impairment is a cause or consequence of their difficulties, hard-to-reach or socially challenged children [ndash] exemplified by those with autism [ndash] characteristically show a limi...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Melanie Peter Tags: Drama Source Type: journals

Mental health and special educational needs: exploring a complex relationshipEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The relationship between mental health and special educational needs is both complex and misunderstood. In this article, Richard Rose, Professor of Special and Inclusive Education, Marie Howley, Senior Lecturer, Ann Fergusson, Senior Lecturer, and Johnson Jament, a PhD student, all from the Centre for Special Needs Education and Research directed by Richard Rose at the University of Northampton, discuss findings from a national research project which explored the perceptions of pupil mental health needs by staff working in residential special schools. Teachers and other professional colleagues often feel ill-prepared to ad...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Richard Rose, Marie Howley, Ann Fergusson, Johnson Jament Tags: Mental Health and Sen Source Type: journals

EditorialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Special Education - March 1, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Richard Byers Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals