SEN - Special Education Needs

Commonsense Methods for children with Special Needs

This book provides teachers with an immediate and comprehensive source of practical strategies for meeting children's special needs in regular classrooms.
This fully revised and updated fourth edition includes expanded chapters on learning difficulties, effective instruction, behaviour management, self-regulation, the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills, and differentiation across the curriculum. In addition, the book includes new chapters on the learning characteristics and specific needs of students with intellectual, physical or sensory disabilities. In all cases the practical advice the author gives is embedded within a clear theoretical context supported by current research and classroom practice.
This book is essential reading for practising teachers and student teachers worldwide.

Surviving and Succeeding in SEN

This is a general introduction to special needs for teachers, trainees, teaching assistants, SENCOs, and in fact anyone who works with young people in a learning environment. Finton O’Regan provides readers with helpful hints and strategies for dealing with a wide range of difficulties, including those in the areas of communication, learning, behavioural, sensory/physical, and medical. This book also contains a glossary, an acronym-buster, and a comprehensive directory.

Helping Children with Reading and Spelling

Helping Children with Reading and Spelling contains a basic kit of suggestions to help children who struggle with learning to read and spell. The materials build on the content of an earlier manual, Learning Difficulties in Reading and Writing, which has been widely and successfully used by teachers. The detailed teaching sequences, combining the enjoyment of content with the more systematic practice of subskills, which were particularly appreciated in the earlier volume, have been further developed here.

Teachers using the manual will be following the school-based stages of intervention recommended by the Code and will be providing, when necessary, an invaluable basis for further action. Its practical A4 format, photocopiable materials and case examples make this an invaluable handbook for day to day use in the classroom.