Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties

Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties

Synopsis
This invaluable guide provides teachers and trainees with practical tips for teaching children with profound and multiple learning difficulties
 
Description
This invaluable guide provides teachers and trainees with practical tips for teaching children with profound and multiple learning difficulties. Well-written and informative, the authors' specialist knowledge of working with those with PMLD and SLD is apparent on every page. Containing advice on diagnostic techniques, teaching strategies, social and emotional considerations and how parents can help, this book will prove essential reading for every teacher.

Access to Communication
Developing the Basics of Communication for People with SLD

The award-winning creators of "Intensive Interaction" bring this groundbreaking book up-to-date with new material covering inclusion and emotional literacy. The book includes: a brand new section looking at Intensive Interactions implementation in pre-school settings, the particular benefits of Intensive Interaction for children who have ASD, a 'how to do it' chapter including ideas for assessment, and case studies to help practitioners get to grips with the realities of using Intensive Interaction. This book is meant for teachers and teaching assistants working in specialist schools and other care professionals and parents.

Inclusive Teaching, Inclusive Learning
Managing the Curriculum for Children with Severe Motor Difficulties

This is a practical yet imaginative guide to the management and education of children with severe motor difficulties. The book covers a wide range of approaches, including physiotherapy, speech therapy, and parental and teacher assistance.

Implementing Intensive Interaction in Schools
Guidance for Practitioners, Managers and Co-ordinators

By taking a detailed look at the implementation and management of intensive interaction in schools, the authors of this text offer practical guidance on how to get the most from the approach in a school context.

The text includes: guidance on managing priorities, training issues, power dynamics and coping with OFSTED; advice on setting up and running evaluation projects; clear links to the National Curriculum for SEN; case studies from special and mainstream schools; and a glossary of terms.

Aimed at practitioners, co-ordinators and managers in schools using intensive interaction with pupils who have severe and complex learning difficulties, the text addresses a range of challenges across special, inclusive and ever-changing contexts.

Using a Multisensory Environment
A Practical Guide for Teachers

This resource book provides teachers and therapists with a user-friendly bank of practical ideas and suggestions to use in MSE for pupils with profound and multiple learning difficulties. These include: equipment and resources that can be used to engineer the environment to promote particular outcomes; a set of photocopiable, fast, easy-to-complete, observation and assessment forms; a selection of practical strategies and methods that can be used in the MSE; and ideas to help teachers integrate environment, assessment and instruction to maximize individual programmes.