Category: Publications
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Four new books, sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, have been produced by Books Beyond Words. They were warmly received at a Reception to Launch the Books in the House of Lords on 30th April. Baroness Sheila Hollins, Founder of Books Beyond Words, explained the background to the Project, and the process of…
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‘Belonging’ deals with issues of Loneliness for people with Learning Disabilities. https://booksbeyondwords.co.uk/bookshop/paperbacks/belonging
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Publishers, Routledge , have launched a 3rd Edition of Enabling Access; Effective Teaching and Learning for Pupils with Learning Difficulties, to mark the seminal contribution of the book to the debate around the curricular needs of children and young people with learning difficulties. Edited by Barry Carpenter, Rob Ashdown and Keith Bovair the book will appear in the Routledge Education Classic Edition series.…
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Using the ‘wordless’ Books Beyond Words, (BBW), has given a new lease of life to Katie Carpenter, (a young woman with Down’s syndrome) who runs her own Book Club every month for her friends , and now works as a volunteer Book Club Leader in a new 19-25 educational provision for young adults with Learning…
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This blog describes an initiative in the West Midlands led by MyLife.http://www.mylife.uk.com/ This guest blog comes from Professor Barry Carpenter CBE, chair of MyLife, a support service in Hartlepool and Moseley in Surrey enabling people with complex needs to live as independently as possible in the community. Here, he describes MyLife’s new initiative in the…
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Diane Rochford, the Chair of the Government’s Review on Assessment for children with SEND, has endorsed the popular book: “Engaging Learners with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities:A resource book for teachers and teaching assistants, (Routledge)” “In the light of Government reforms in the assessment of children with SEND this is extremely timely. The book is…
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In this latest issue of the SEND magazine there are articles on Girls with Autism Spectrum, and Mental Health in children with SEND. https://issuu.com/sendmagazine/docs/send_november_2016_v04_digital
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These companion articles from the SEND journal , written by Barry Carpenter, Jo Egerton and Stas’ Samagala, are relevant to schools and settings in this time of evolving educational approaches and interventions to support children and young people’s mental health and emotional well being. As the title suggests current thinking for neuroscience is applied to…
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Figures for Self Harm amongst Girls has doubled in the last 4 years in the UK. This new article from Dr Tina Rae, gives some terrific insights into this issue.
Barry Carpenter Education 