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Offering connections to existing legislation, this invaluable reference presents step-by-step instructions for identifying individual children's needs in all early years settings and provides guidelines for involving parents. ... Read more

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This new series provides books that will help all early years professionals to recognise and understand specific special needs conditions and to provide appropriate inclusive activities. Most early years groups will at some point include children who have medical difficulties or conditions. This book will help all early years professionals to recognise and understand such difficulties and to provide inclusive activities. It will also help them to keep in touch with children who are ill at home or in hospital, in order to help them to continue to feel included. There is advice on the legal requirements of handling special needs, including information on the Code of Practice for special needs and ideas for working with parents and outside agencies. There are six chapters of practical activities linked to all six areas of the Early Learning Goals. These show how medical difficulties can be supported in an inclusive approach that involves all children in the group. A section of supporting photocopiable activities are included and there is information on further sources of help and information. .Series covers all areas of special educational needs .Practical support for identifying and supporting needs .Carefully linked to requirements of new Code of Practice for Special Educational Needs .Practical activity ideas based on the Early Learning Goals .Ideas for working with parents .Time-saving photocopiable sheets .Information on useful resources ... Read more

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The "Professional Development Series" aims to provide in-depth information for students and practitioners who want more detail on specific areas of early years care and education. This book covers the underpinning knowledge required for special needs modules on Early Years courses. It guides students and practitioners through this subject area, and provides information on the issues and legislation. The text includes case studies to heighten awareness of issues and to promote individual evaluation skills. Theme-related activities throughout the book engage students in simple analysis. It is suitable for: NVQ and SVQ 3 in Early Years Care and Education, CACHE Diploma in Nursery Nursing, BTEC National in Early Years, and Specialist Teacher Award. ... Read more

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This book will help practitioners to ensure that they are doing all they can to include children with special educational needs. The author looks at several conditions such as Asperger's Syndrome, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Down's Syndrome and ADD/ADHD and shows how play can be adapted to help alleviate the difficulties children with these additional needs might have. As more and more children with a higher level of special need come into mainstream schools, teachers, nursery nurses and teaching assistants have the responsibility of ensuring that they have access to all aspects of learning.

This book offers guidance on what play is, how to adapt activities to suit children with special needs, how play can help recognition of children's progress, the most common types of special need, how play can be used to help raise self-esteem, and resources for further help.

Written for those working in mainstream settings, the author shows how including children who have special needs in play can help to provide great opportunities for learning and for developing social and communication skills. ... Read more

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Recent legislation and cutbacks to central support services mean that the responsibility for meeting special educational needs is resting ever more squarely on the shoulders of ordinary classroom teachers. Yet few feel wholly confident in their ability to adapt work within the national curriculum to meet the whole range of needs, or coordinate successful individual education plans for children who, for whatever reason, are not learning as well as they might.

This book will increase that confidence. Aimed at busy class teachers, special needs coordinators, heads and teachers in training, it shows how the teacher can build differentiation into planning lessons and schemes of work. It describes workable strategies for managing the most common behavior difficulties and meeting special needs in language, literacy and mathematics.

At a whole school level, it offers practical guidance on reviewing special needs policies, assessment, record keeping, and the management of roles and resources. The focus is on the way in which schools can do a good job in meeting special needs themselves, within the everyday constraints of time, money and energy, and in so doing provide genuinely inclusive opportunities for all children.

This edition has been comprehensively updated and rewritten to cover the revised SEN Code of Practice and related legislation, new directions in inclusion and all the major curriculum initiatives now in place in primary schools. ... Read more

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The book looks in detail at how to support pupils with a wide range of special educational needs: communication and integration difficulties; social, emotional and behavioral difficulties; cognition and learning difficulties; sensory and physical needs; and medical needs. ... Read more

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A framework to think through issues of inclusion
This book is a good place to start for Early Childhood Educators who are beginning to grapple with issues surrounding inclusion.As more and more children with special needs are joining typically developing children in mainstream child care settings, teachers and parents are discovering a need to evaluate their assumptions about what impact these children may have on their program.This book teaches that inclusion need not be difficult- it can be easily acheived and is beneficial to all involved.I recommend this book to anyone who is considering inclusive programming and wants to find out more ... Read more

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This book explores what early childhood education is and why it is important, what early childhood educators do and why they do it. It is an excellent resource for early childhood professionals who plan to provide services and intervention to very young children with disabilities.Descriptions are provided for more than 50 of the most common medical conditions that early childhood educators should understand before working with families and professionals in other fields. Coverage also includes an emphasis on intervention principles for families and professionals, and highlights many strategies that have been found effective with some children with disabilities.For early childhood professionals and also for individuals in other disciplines—such as healthcare, social work, physical and occupational therapy, child care—and those who are involved in interagency services to young children and their families. ... Read more

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This is an introduction to special needs for all early years practitioners, and will prove an invaluable resource for SENCOs. Damien Fitzgerald provides readers with an overview of the special needs process and provides helpful hints and strategies for co-ordinating the different aspects of special needs within early years settings. ... Read more

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This book features contributions from leading professionals who have extensive experience with children who have special needs -- birth to three years of age. Extremely practical in approach, it contains "recommended practices" in early intervention that are easy to implement for serving young children and their families.Presents foundations for infant and toddler intervention and explores the importance of teamwork in early intervention. Surveys intervention strategies for developmental domains -- neuromotor development, cognitive development, and social and communication development. Considers intervention strategies for medical contexts -- for the neonatal period and for medically fragile/complex infants and toddlers. Discusses intervention with infants and toddlers who are at-risk, have multiple or severe disabilities, hearing impairment, or visual impairment. Explains how to collaborate with families and how to develop an Individualized Family Service Plan.For interventionists, educators, and families who are dealing with young children with special needs. ... Read more

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This is a focused and compact resource on the current issues and practices affecting children with special health care needs (CSHCN) from birth to age 5.

The editors combine anthropological and biomedical perspectives and present real-world, practical advice from seasoned clinicians, family members with experience as caregivers, and longtime leaders in the development of policies affecting children with special health care needs. They intend the book to be used as a basis for dialogue between families and professionals. It offers an essential discussion of ways to improve care for the children, examining what appropriate care consists of as seen from a range of disciplinary and stakeholder perspectives. Although not a textbook, it also presents basic information about particular conditions to help summarize the state of thinking on the subject today, describe the agenda for the future, and prepare professionals and parents alike to meet its challenges. ... Read more

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This book takes the approach that children with disabilities are more like their peers without disabilities than they are different and that educators need to provide programming from that perspective. Both pre-service and in-service teachers are facing the reality that their classes will reflect increasingly more diverse children as time goes on. While child diversity in terms of race, culture, religion, experience, family and national origin is, and will always be a part of a class make-up, the practice of inclusion promises to add another level of complexity to teachers' decision making processes. This book is designed to provide readers with the skills and knowledge to make curriculum decisions in order to care for and foster the development of young children with special needs in normal early childhood settings. This book blends the best of early childhood and early childhood special education practices and helps the practitioner understand how to modify the classroom and the curriculum to make them accessible to all children. The focus is on developmentally appropriate practice as the basis for designing programs that enable children to become active participants in the learning process. Chapter One presents three case studies of real children with disabilities. Readers continually re-visit the children as they explore IEP's, IFSP's, formative and summative assessment, room arrangement, curriculum development, and behavior management.Pre-service and in-service early-childhood teachers. ... Read more

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Well organized, easy to use reference
This book offers much needed support to child care providers who are caring for special needs children or who wonder whether the child they arecaring for has a special need. It is designed in an easy to use format: 33exceptionalities are included (such as asthma, epilepsy, learningdisabilities, abuse, etc.) with 3-5 pages of information on each one. Thelayout is in chart form with a spiral binding, so the book can be left opento the exceptionality you wish to review. Under each category the authorsaddress the following: Behavioral Characteristics, What Else Could It Be?,and Recommendations. Additional resources are provided at the end of eachcategory. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Education, published by Project Innovation (Alabama) on September 22, 1994. The length of the article is 2540 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The critical need for teachers of preschoolers with special needs and their families: Southern University's response.
Author: Patricia R. Bockmiller
Publication: Education (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1994
Publisher: Project Innovation (Alabama)
Volume: v115Issue: n1Page: p105(6)

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This digital document is an article from Childhood Education, published by Association for Childhood Education International on March 22, 1996. The length of the article is 3067 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Encouragement from teachers using verbal and physical persuasion can motivate the preschool children with disabilities to imitate peers' behavior. The use of affectionate activities can promote the learning of social skills by children with behavior disorders. Peer-mediated interventions combined with teacher-mediated approaches encourage disabled children to acquire social skills. Correspondence training can be used for children having language skills but with problems in other developmental areas.

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Title: Teaching social skills to preschoolers with special needs.
Author: Barbara Lowenthal
Publication: Childhood Education (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1996
Publisher: Association for Childhood Education International
Volume: v72Issue: n3Page: p137(4)

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