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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.
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Dyslexia and autism are both examples of cognitive deficits. You can think of these handicaps as 'holes in the mind.' Both may be encountered in mainstreamed or integrated classes ...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers dread the 'out-of-control', socially maladjusted, delinquent children who wind up in their classes. Identifying them is easy; getting changes is more difficult; but not...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
'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...
| Year published: 1988 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Computer programs are not a magic remedy for dyslexia. But they can be a very worthwhile teaching aid when you need many ways of reinforcing each teaching point. In this way the computer can add a...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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....
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) is a true and unique language. Like any human language it transmits information efficiently,
using, in its case, great economy of movement rather than sounds. It is...
| Year published: 1986 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article