Special Educational Needs: A Guide for Inclusive Practice

With a Foreword from Baroness Warnock, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of special educational needs (SEN). Special Educational Needs contains chapters written by a range of experts on different aspects of SEN, and is full of practical suggestions for how to achieve effective, inclusive practice. Various research perspectives are considered, the value of labels is examined and the need to recognize the overlapping characteristics between different syndromes is highlighted. Chapters focus on translating theory into classroom practice, and include case studies covering the Birth to 19 age range.