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Last year the Hamilton branch of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children produced a radio programme, broadcast by 1YW Hamilton, on the gifted child and the school situation. The...
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This New Zealand study proposes that the ethos and culture of schools can be a major protective factor in helping children to cope with violent and traumatic events. Implications for teachers are...
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Supportive friendships and relationships at school contribute to children’s quality of life as well as their learning. There are some concerns that students with disabilities may be isolated, lonely...
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Social interactions are very much an individual matter, but what factors in a school setting also influence students with disabilities in developing social relationships?
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Support circles for inclusion students help everyone in the classroom.
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Revelations about what can go wrong if the child's perspectives are not recognised during an assessment for special educational needs.
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If you can't change the child perhaps you can change the school. Alternative schools for truants and offenders, called in New Zealand 'Activity Centres', are growing. Do they work? A...
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'He needs so much time - what do I do with the other 30?' The question is not obstructive, not reactionary, not symptomatic of laziness and it revolves around a collection of seemingly insoluble...
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Developmental Dyslexia is a specific learning disability characterised by difficulty in learning to read. Some dyslexics also may have difficulty in learning to write, to spell and, sometimes, to...
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In February 1985 Glenys and Ray Stephens found themselves both teaching new entrants at schools a kilometre apart, Ray at Sumner Primary, Glen at Van Asch College, a school for the hearing-impaired....
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