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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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Assisting children back into school after a long illness needs patience and care on both sides. Here are many practical measures to avoid stress and speed the return to ordinary life and ordinary...
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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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Placing handicapped students in the regular classroom is the beginning of an opportunity to influence handicapped students' lives deeply by promoting constructive relationships between them and their...
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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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The sweeping and controversia1 1978 American Education Act is now challenging many assumptions about the integration of handicapped with nonhandicapped children. The Act stated that al1 handicapped...
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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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The task of teaching a severely handicapped child mainstreamed into an ordinary secondary school is far from easy. Very little help can be found in the research literature. The bulk of this is geared...
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What approach might be helpful in identifying culturally appropriate means of catering for Māori learners with special needs? This article reports ongoing research to develop and trial a...
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