This two part article, recently published in the new SEND magazine, gives an overview of the phenomena that many school are experiencing , namely that the children they identify with SEND today, are increasingly different to those they identified yesterday.
Tag: New Generation Pedagogy
Prematurity and the challenge for Educators
This article by Professor Carpenter and Jo Egerton describes many of the challenges that educators face in teaching this rapidly emerging groups of students in the education system.
Book Review Engaging Learners with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
Engaging Learners with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities: A resource book for teachers and teaching assistants by Barry Carpenter and others
Complex Needs Modules to go Europe wide.
Changing Children – Changing Services? The moving landscape of Early Childhood Intervention
Flyer for Engaging Learners with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
This practical and engaging book provides literature, tools and case study examples outlining who children and young people with CLDD are, why their engagement for learning is important, and how the Engagement for Learning Framework can be used effectively by teachers and other professionals to ensure the best possible outcomes for these children.
Engaging Learners with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
Family Perspectives on FASD
This powerpoint has some useful advice to families, foster carers, teachers on others, on raising and working with the child with FASD.
Resources to support Teachers and Teaching Assistants working with children and young people with FASD.
I still find a lot of teachers struggling to find direct practical ideas on how to work with children with FASD in classrooms and schools.
The following are full of evidence based strategies the would fulfil the requirements of the new Code of Practice for SEND to develop personalised Learning Passports.
Learning from each other in the field of Early Childhood Intervention.
Each country finds itself at a different phase of development when it comes to Early Childhood Intervention. It is important that the ECI community learns from each other, and supports one another.
The Early Intervention Institute in St Petersburg, Russia, is keen to develop its links in the international ECI Community. Following on from the excellent ISEI Conference they hosted in 2013, they have produced a newsletter, containing articles that can be read in Russian or English. This includes a piece I have written on the education of children born prematurely.
The newsletter can be found here.
Interpreting Engagement ; pathways for children with Complex Needs
The Engagement Profile and Scale, which was a major outcome of the Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities Research Project, continues to be used creatively by practitioners in a variety of settings. The powerpoint below is an illustration from Sally Jones, a teacher of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders in South Australia.