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Special educational needs : a resource for practitioners
`Essential reading for every SENCO, in fact, for everyone involved in special educational needs′ - Dr Tony Lingard, Head of Learning Support, Cambourne Science and Community College This book provides a `route map′ for special education. Through examining related disciplines, which illuminate the field, it considers how special education can be better understood.
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Foundations of special education
A unique cross-disciplinary critique of the foundations of Special Education. Covers legal, conceptual, medical, pharmacological, neuropsychological, social, behavioural, cognitive, psychotherapeutic, psycholinguistic, technological and pedagogical foundations Provides examples of how each foundation provides insights or practical contributions to special education generally, and to specific disabilities and disorders in particular Delivers information across all major types of disorder/disability in a single volume, creating a must-have reference for anyone involved in special education training, research or teaching.
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The Effective Teacher's Guide to Sensory and Physical Impairments
'Michael Farrell offers well sourced overviews of the conflicting and contradictory advice that is available to schools, suggests a variety of solutions to challenges, empowering the reader to make their own choices.' - Carol Smart, Special Needs Information Press
Fully updated with the latest research and advice on best practice, this new edition of The Effective Teacher’s Guide to Sensory and Physical Impairments covers a range of conditions that cause learning difficulties for children, including visual impairment, hearing impairment, deafblindness, orthopaedic impairment, motor disorders and health impairments, as well as a brand new chapter on traumatic brain injury.
Teachers are likely to meet children with varying types and degrees of sensory and physical impairments. This comprehensive guide equips you with informed and practical strategies to ensure that all pupils are included and provided for in the best possible way. The new edition has also been adapted to be more widely relevant to readers in different countries, focusing more on the strategies that work regardless of national context.
Writing in his popular accessible style, Michael Farrell suggests the best ways of dealing with a variety of conditions, always with practical classroom situations in mind. In each section, the book:
explains the legal contexts
looks at the range of provision
suggests intervention and support strategies
gives points for reflection and suggested further reading.
Highly accessible and authoritative, this book provides teachers with an invaluable resource to help you create a truly inclusive classroom.
Michael Farrell is a special education consultant working with schools, local authorities, voluntary organisations, universities and others in Britain and abroad. He has published extensively in this field.
1. What are Sensory and Physical Impairments? 2. Visual Impairment 3. Hearing Impairment 4. Deafblindness 5. Orthopaedic Impairment and Motor Disorders 6. Health Impairments 7. Traumatic Brain Injury 8. Conclusion
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The Effective Teacher's Guide to Behavioural and Emotional Disorders
'Michael Farrell offers well sourced overviews of the conflicting and contradictory advice that is available to schools, suggests a variety of solutions to challenges, empowering the reader to make their own choices.' - Carol Smart, Special Needs Information PressFully updated with the latest research and advice on best practice, this new edition of The Effective Teacher's Guide to Behavioural and Emotional Disorders covers a range of conditions that cause learning difficulties for children, including disruptive behaviour, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depressive disorders. The theoretical underpinning is fully updated but also condensed in this edition to make way for more practical strategies for teachers.Teachers are likely to meet children with varying types and degrees of emotional behavioural disorders. This comprehensive guide equips you with informed and practical strategies to ensure that all pupils are included and provided for in the best possible way. The new edition has also been adapted to be more widely relevant to readers in different countries, focusing more on the strategies that work regardless of national context. Writing in his popular accessible style, Michael Farrell suggests the best ways of dealing with a variety of conditions, always with practical classroom situations in mind. In each section, the book:sets out the definitions of the conditionlooks at the range of provisionsuggests intervention and support strategiesgives points for reflection and suggested further reading. Highly accessible and authoritative, this book provides teachers with an invaluable resource to help you create a truly inclusive classroom.
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Key Issues for Primary Schools
Key Issues for Primary Schools is a concise comprehensive guide to the main issues in primary education and the implications for schools. Presented in a convenient A-Z format, the book includes coverage of:* special educational needs* attendance, truancy and exclusion* bullying and behavioural problems* management and administration* safety and security.There is also a review of up-to-date DfEE requirements and suggestions for further action and reading. The addresses of useful contacts help to make it a reference book no primary school should be without.
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The Effective Teacher's Guide to Autism and Communication Difficulties
In this welcome second edition of The Effective Teacher’s Guide to Autism and Communication Difficulties , best-selling author Michael Farrell addresses how teachers and others can develop provision for students with autism and students that have difficulties with speech, grammar, meaning, use of language and comprehension. Updated and expanded, this book allows the teacher to be self-critical in developing classroom approaches and offers up-to-date research combined with professional experience on how to best achieve good practice in the classroom. This accessible book offers down-to-earth information on:
Terms and definitions
Legal considerations
Classroom strategies
Useful resources
Pedagogical issues.
This new edition will be a useful source of ideas and guidance for teachers and others working with children with autism or other communication disorders. It will also be useful for all new teachers, for those continuing professional development, school mamagers and administrators.
Michael Farrell is a widely published private special education consultant. He works with children, families, schools, local authorities, voluntary organisations, universities and government ministries. He has published books extensively with Routledge with recent titles including The Special Education Handbook (4 th Edition) and Debating Special Education .
Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Communication disorders – speech Chapter 3. Communication disorders - grammar Chapter 4. Communication disorders - comprehension Chapter 5. Communication disorders - semantics Chapter 6. Communication disorders - pragmatics Chapter 7. Autism Chapter 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Debating Special Education
Debating Special Education is a provocative yet timely book examining a range of criticisms made of special education in recent years. Michael Farrell analyses several key debates in special education giving balanced critical responses to inform policy and practice for the future of special education.
The book identifies possible limitations to the current special education knowledge base and provision. Michael Farrell examines the value of labelling and classification, and asks if intelligence testing may have detrimental effects; and addresses a number of complex issues such as:
how practitioners work within special education; and if, sometimes, professionals may be self-serving
whether there is distinctive provision for different types of disabilities and disorders
inclusion as mainstreaming offered as an alternative to special education, and the challenges this presents.
The author's conclusion is that in responding to these challenges, special education demonstrates its continuing relevance and strength. Presenting a range of international, cross-disciplinary perspectives and debates – which are vital to an understanding of special education today, and written in Farrell's typically accessible style – this book will be relevant for teachers of special children in ordinary and special schools; those on teacher training courses and anyone whose work relates to special education.
1. Introduction 2. Sociological criticisms 3. Rights base criticisms and contested values 4. Postmodern and related criticisms 5. Limitations of the special education knowledge base 6. The unhelpfulness of classification 7. Problems with assessment 8. Negative effects of labelling 9. Professional limitations 10. Lack of distinctive provision 11. The alternative of inclusion as mainstreaming 12. Conclusion
Michael Farrell is an independent consultant in special education. He has published extensively in the field; his books include The Special Education Handbook , Celebrating the Special School , Key Issues in Special Education and Educating Special Children along with a number of The Effective Teacher's Guides (all published by Routledge).
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The Special Education Handbook
'What a terrific resource: comprehensive and current, this Handbook is a vital acquisition for all involved in special education programs. Dr Farrell writes clearly and with a practical flair ... Highly recommended.' – Michael Arthur-Kelly PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Special Education Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia
This acclaimed, bestselling and comprehensive guide, now in a fully updated fourth edition, is an essential reference book for anyone involved with special education.
All entries have been reviewed to reflect current practice and the book is enriched with extra resources, including references to useful Internet sites. Focusing on current educational frameworks in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, the author has gathered into one A to Z volume a wide range of information essential to good practice in mainstream and special schools. A thematic index helps the reader plot a course through topics of interest. The broad themes and areas covered are:
basic terms, ideas and values
venues relating to special education, and school organisation
roles and responsibilities
individual differences among learners with disabilities and disorders
curriculum and assessment, resources and technology
pedagogy and classroom organisation
therapy and care.
Presented in a handy quick reference format The Special Education Handbook also provides a coherent account of the complexities of special education, combining a wealth of practical guidance with the latest research findings.
This clear and concise Handbook is indispensable for all those involved in special education, including teachers, teaching assistants, parents, administrators and others.
Michael Farrell is a private consultant in special education working with parents and children, schools, local authorities, voluntary organisations, universities and government ministries.
Acknowledgements Foreword by Lord Rix About the author Preface Introduction A to Z entries Classified list/ Thematic index of A to Z entries
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