1st Edition
Supporting Students with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities (LLDD) A Guide for Teachers, Trainees and Assessors in the Further Education and Skills Sector
1. Policy, legislation and statutory guidance
2. Ofsted and the education inspection framework
3. Working with others
4. Quality First Teaching, the graduated approach and adaptive teaching
5. Pedagogy: Evidence-based research and practice
6. English, maths and emerging technologies
7. Embedding literacy, numeracy and digital skills into the vocational curriculum
8. Neurodiversity
9. Assessment, planning and facilitating learning: Cognition and learning needs Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) and Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD)
10. Assessment, planning and facilitating learning: Cognition and learning needs - Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)
11. Assessment, planning and facilitating learning: Social, emotional and mental health difficulties
12. Assessment, planning and facilitating learning: Social, emotional and mental health difficulties - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
13. Assessment, planning and facilitating learning: Communication and interaction needs - Autism Spectrum Disorder
14. Assessment, planning and facilitating learning: Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)
15. Assessment, planning and facilitating learning: Sensory needs
16. Assessment, planning and facilitating learning: Physical needs
Biography
Trevor Cotterill is Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Special Educational Needs and Disabilities programme at the University of Derby. He has previously published A Guide to the SEND Code of Practice (2024) and Principles and Practices of Working with Pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disability (2019), both with Routledge.
