1st Edition

Meeting Special Needs in the Early Years Directions in Policy and Practice

By Sheila Wolfendale Copyright 1997
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    196 Pages
    by Routledge

    The chapters in this work describe and explore: contemporary assessment and intervention work with young children with Down's Syndrome, and with hearing, vision, physical and language special needs; the ways in which policies are being translated into practice; and inter-agency co-operation.

    Chapter 1 The State and Status of Special Educational Needs in the Early Years, Sheila Wolfendale; Chapter 2 A Pre-school Assessment Model, Moira Challen; Chapter 3 STAR Children’s Centre – Comprehensive Working with Young Children with Special Needs, Cathy Hamer; Chapter 4 Play, Assessment and Culture, Zahirun Sayeed, Ellen Guerin; Chapter 5 The Multidisciplinary Assessment of Under-Fives with Cerebral Palsy, Mark Fox; Chapter 6 The Special Educational Needs of Children with Down’s Syndrome, Stephanie Lorenz; Chapter 7 Early Years: The Integration of the Visually Impaired Child, Mary Burke; Chapter 8 Supporting Deaf Children in the Early Years: An Inclusive Approach, Mary Robinson; Chapter 9 Language Impairment in Pre-schoolers, Lesley Fleming, Sue Sheppard; Chapter 10 Provision for Special Educational Needs in the Early Years: Policy and Procedures within one LEA, Janine Wooster, Ann Warn; Chapter 11 Principles into Practice: An Assessment Framework for Educational Psychologists, Fiona Barnett, Loraine Hancock, Julia Hardy, Marianne McCarthy; Chapter 12 Surveying Professional Practice in Early Years: Multi-disciplinary Assessment Teams, Hannah Mortimer; Chapter 13 Educational Psychologists and Inter-agency Collaboration for Pre-school Children, Karen Hobson; Chapter 14 ‘All Young Children Have Needs’, Jo Goodall; Chapter 15 Inclusive Education for Children with Special Educational Needs in the Early Years, Chris Lloyd;

    Biography

    Authored by Wolfendale, Sheila