Table of Contents
- Introduction Penny Lacey, Rob Ashdown, Phyllis Jones, Hazel Lawson and Michele Pipe
SECTION 1: PROVISION IN ENGLAND FOR LEARNERS WITH SLD/PMLD
- Learners with SLD and PMLD: Provision, Policy and Practice Dawn Male
- Changing special educational needs and disability legislation and policy: Implications for learners with SLD/PMLD Christopher Robertson
- An historical reflection on education for learners with SLD/PMLD – 1800 – 1970 David Stewart
- Priorities, Products and Process – developments in providing a curriculum for learners with SLD and PMLD David Stewart
- Further Education: Personalised destinations and outcomes for students with SLD/PMLD Caroline Allen, Kathrine Everett, Janet Sherborne, James Stonard, Joanne Yarlett
- Building secure foundations in the Early Years Michele Pipe, Fiona Smith and Lesley Mycroft
SECTION 2: INVOLVING STAKEHOLDERS
- Joint working for learners with SLD/ PMLD Penny Lacey with Julian Brown, Fiona Holmes, Helen Burnford, Kate Jones and Rosie Jones
- Working with Families: partnerships in practice Barry Carpenter & Hollie Rawson
- Provision for Children with Severe and Profound Learning Difficulties from Ethnic Minority Families Sana Rizvi and Peter Limbrick
- Participation, citizenship and voice Sana Rizvi and Peter Limbrick
- Participation, citizenship and voice Hazel Lawson and Ann Fergusson with Miranda Brookes, Trudy Duffield and Anthony Skipworth
- Training and Developing the Inclusive Teacher for Learners with SLD & PMLD Melanie Peter
- Teachers talking about their work with learners with SLD & PMLD Michael Riley and Phyllis Jones
- Ups and Downs: how learners with SLD/ PMLD view their school experience Elizabeth Henderson, Julia Barnes and Nicola Grove
SECTION 3: PRIORITIES FOR MEETING THE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEEDS OF LEARNERS
- Learners with Severe and Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties and Sensory Impairments Liz Hodges and Mike McLinden
- Care as an educational concept Peter Imray and Lana Bond
- Sex and Relationship Education David Stewart, Angela Mallett and Tom Hall
- Physical contact experiences within the curriculum Julia Barnes and Dave Hewett
- Challenging Behaviour and the curriculum
- Hidden behind a label, an uneasy relationship between mental health and special needs. Ann Fergusson, Marie Howley, Rachel Allan and Richard Rose
- Spirituality and Severe Learning Difficulties Jean Ware and Erica Brown
- Death, Bereavement and Loss Erica Brown
SECTION 4: DEVELOPING THE CURRICULUM
- Curriculum Models, Issues and Tensions Hazel Lawson and Richard Byers with Matthew Rayner, Richard Aird and Laura Pease
- Recognising progress – assessing outcomes for young people with SLD and PMLD Richard Byers and Ann Fergusson
- Communication Juliet Goldbart and Jean Ware
- Intensive Interaction: Fundamental and Early Communication Abilities Dave Hewett, Graham Firth, Lana Bond and Riana Jackson
- Inclusive Talking: Language Learning Carolyn Anderson and Penny Lacey with Suzanne Kavanagh and Kalvinder Rai
- The Teaching of Reading to Pupils with SLD Sarah Mosely
- Literature and Stories in the Lives of Pupils with SLD/PMLD Nicola Grove, Jane Harwood, Elizabeth Henderson, Keith Park and Rosemary Bird
- Using number in everyday life Jill Porter
- Physical Education for All Learners Steve Cullingford Agnew with Nigel Carter, Anne Craddock, Chris Rollings, Barbara Dowson and Hannah Brighton
SECTION 5: STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORTING TEACHING AND LEARNING
- Technology Supporting Learning Chris Abbott and Ann Middleton
- Playing to Learn or Learning to Play? Ideas on Ensuring that the Opportunity to Play is Continually Accessible for Learners with SLD/PMLD. Peter Imray and Robert Orr
- Supporting Playfulness in Learners with SLD/PMLD: Going Beyond the Ordinary . Debby Watson and Margaret Corke
- Creative Teaching and Learning for Learners with SLD and PMLD
- The Learning Environment Penny Lacey with Yvonne McCall, Jodie Dunn and Lisa Watson
SECTION 6: TOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF EDUCATION FOR LEARNERS WITH SLD/PMLD
- Engaging with Research Jill Porter
- The Way Ahead Rob Ashdown