1st Edition
Reviewing Research in Special Education Making the Evidence Work for Practitioners
This innovative collection combines research reviews in special education and an exploration of the findings from these reviews from practitioner and policy maker perspectives. It consists of five sets of papers, the first of which in each set presents a summary of a conventional research review, and the second – commonly produced in collaboration with teachers – translates the review findings into classroom and policy making implications.
The first four sets of papers derive from work commissioned by the National Council for Special Education in Ireland. They deal with best practice and outcomes in the education of pupils who are deaf, visually impaired, on the autistic spectrum, or have emotional and behavioural difficulties. The fifth set is based on a review of explicit memory studies in populations with intellectual disabilities that was submitted to the European Journal of Special Needs Education.
This direct pairing of technical and practitioner-oriented perspectives is relatively unusual, and the collection will be a useful addition to the literature for academics, practitioners and policy makers.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Special Needs Education.
Introduction Jennifer Doran and Seamus Hegarty
1. Evidence-based practice in educating deaf and hard-of-hearing children: teaching to their cognitive strengths and needs Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Jennifer Adams and Patricia Sapere
2. Teaching to the strengths and needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing children Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Jennifer Adams and Patricia Sapere
3. Access to print literacy for children and young people with visual impairment: findings from a review of literature Graeme Douglas, Mike McLinden, Steve McCall, Sue Pavey, Jean Ware and Ann Marie Farrell
4. Access to print literacy for children and young people with visual impairment: implications for policy and practice Graeme Douglas, Mike McLinden, Ann Marie Farrell, Jean Ware, Steve McCall and Sue Pavey
5. International review of the evidence on best practice in educational provision for children on the autism spectrum Sarah Parsons, Karen Guldberg, Andrea MacLeod, Glenys Jones, Anita Prunty and Tish Balfe
6. Implications for practice from ‘International review of the evidence on best practice in educational provision for children on the autism spectrum’ Karen Guldberg, Sarah Parsons, Andrea MacLeod, Glenys Jones, Anita Prunty and Tish Balfe
7. Teacher strategies for effective intervention with students presenting social, emotional and behavioural difficulties: an international review Paul Cooper
8. Teacher strategies for effective intervention with students presenting social, emotional and behavioural difficulties: implications for policy and practice Paul Cooper
9. Meta-analysis of explicit memory studies in populations with intellectual disability Hefziba Lifshitz, Sarit Shtein, Izhak Weiss and Eli Vakil
10. Explicit memory among individuals with mild and moderate intellectual disability: educational implications Hefziba Lifshitz, Sarit Shtein, Itzhak Weiss and Naama Svisrsky
Biography
Seamus Hegarty is Visiting Professor at the universities of Warwick and Manchester Metropolitan, UK. He was Chair of IEA from 2005-2012 and a member of the National Council for Special Education in Ireland from 2007-2012. He is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has published widely on inclusive education, assessment and research management. He is founder editor of the European Journal of Special Needs Education, now in its 28th year, and has edited Educational Research for 15 years.
Jennifer Doran is Head of Research and Communications at the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) in Ireland since 2008. She is responsible for an extensive national research programme in special education. Prior to this, she held a number of positions such as Director of Research with the Irish Health Services Accreditation Board, Senior Researcher with the Eastern Regional Health Authority and a number of other research positions with various statutory and voluntary disability bodies.
