Special Learners in School: Understanding Essential Concepts

Special Learners in School is a photocopiable resource that provides a step-by-step programme to help practitioners support children with special educational needs and develop the skills fundamental to their learning in the mainstream classroom. It offers a range of activities to engage and develop children's auditory and visual memory, pragmatic and sensory skills, and is easily accessible and differentiated for children at lower and upper levels of ability.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 94 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Special Learners in School is an invaluable resource for practitioners seeking to support children with a range of special educational needs. Providing a comprehensive step-by-step programme, it equips educators with the skills necessary to foster these children's learning in the mainstream classroom. Key competencies such as active listening, observation, memory, comprehension of pattern and sequencing, positional and expressive language, body awareness, and emotional intelligence are essential for ensuring a child's access to the school curriculum. Recognising that these areas can be particularly challenging for pupils with special educational needs, the book offers a range of engaging activities designed to develop children's auditory and visual memory, pragmatic and sensory skills. With easily accessible and differentiated content, practical examples and activities can be implemented immediately or adapted to suit students' abilities and progress. This resource is a must-have for learning support assistants, teaching assistants, teachers, and SENCOs who are dedicated to supporting children in mainstream schools as they acquire the skills fundamental to their learning.

Special Learners in School is an invaluable resource for practitioners seeking to support children with a range of special educational needs.

Providing a comprehensive step-by-step programme, it equips educators with the skills necessary to foster these children's learning in the mainstream classroom.

Key competencies such as active listening, observation, memory, comprehension of pattern and sequencing, positional and expressive language, body awareness, and emotional intelligence are essential for ensuring a child's access to the school curriculum.

Recognising that these areas can be particularly challenging for pupils with special educational needs, the book offers a range of engaging activities designed to develop children's auditory and visual memory, pragmatic and sensory skills.

With easily accessible and differentiated content, practical examples and activities can be implemented immediately or adapted to suit students' abilities and progress.

This resource is a must-have for learning support assistants, teaching assistants, teachers, and SENCOs who are dedicated to supporting children in mainstream schools as they acquire the skills fundamental to their learning.

Weight: 378g
Dimension: 288 x 219 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138312494