Special Needs

A comprehensive new edition; a guide to planning, implementing and reviewing play to promote a child’s learning, creativity and well-being in the ELC setting.

Written in an accessible, easy-to-understand style, this guide introduces the sixteen Síolta standards, explaining how to practically implement them within an early childhood setting.  It links the theory of Síolta to daily ECEC practice.

Researching in special and inclusive education can be challenging due to the frequent difficulties in eliciting the views of individuals identified with SEND. This book will give students the confidence to be creative, flexible, and innovative when it comes to planning research, particularly with children and young people within special and inclusive education. 

Parents, occupational therapists and educational professionals will find this workbook to be a rich source of fun ideas for improving sensory processing in autism, and easily adaptable for children with other special needs.

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A complete guide to supporting special educational needs in Ireland, combining specialist assistance across a wide range of needs with theoretical approaches and perspectives from practice.

When renowned psychotherapist Virginia Axline first encountered Dibs at his New York School, he was a little boy lost to the world. He would not talk. He would not play. He sat alone, defying every attempt at interaction.

A comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of inclusive education and care of children with additional needs in the ELC setting.

Written as an essential text containing specialist knowledge on all necessary professional practice procedures to assist in becoming an Early Learning and Care (ELC) professional practitioner.

This is a must-have book for all teachers wanting to understand sensory processing differences, identify them in the primary classroom and implement effective strategies to support their pupils. 

Promoting Positive Behavior, Wellbeing and Resilience. Emotion Coaching (EC) is a universal communication strategy which supports children and young people to self-regulate and manage their stress responses.

Providing a robust understanding of what really works for educators and pupils alike, this book shows how inclusive practices function effectively in schools. 

Including a Guide to the QCF Units for Assessment and Internal Quality Assurance (IQA)

Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops and shapes the adults we become. 

The Sunday Times bestseller Naoki Higashida met international success with THE REASON I JUMP, a revelatory account of life as a thirteen-year-old with non-verbal autism. Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome

This book also provides an overview of a range of both professional and self-help tools and technologies which can be used by adults with ASC to increase independence and wellbeing.

With thorough coverage of the essentials of clinical practice, this new edition is also a good refresher for audiologists and speech-language pathologists who are starting out in their practice

This book takes a fresh look at approaches to teaching reading, writing and communication skills.

Every day, teachers and other school staff have to deal with children who present challenging behaviour during their learning process at school.

Effective social interaction does not come naturally to many children with learning disabilities and yet is vital for developing and maintaining relationships and for independent living outside the school context.

Maria Montessori went beyond the conventions of the day to seek a new way of knowing and loving a child.