ABSTRACT

Supporting the Emotional Well-being of Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities is an essential and practical resource for helping children with severe and complex learning difficulties, their classmates, their teachers and the schools that they attend. The highly adaptable materials, activities and ideas presented in this book will be useful both in the classroom and in staff training to promote understanding of emotional well-being and mental health of all pupils who may need support.

Fox, Laverty and Chowdhury cover a range of topics that engage with the school as a whole, inclusive classrooms and the individual student. Their frameworks and practical suggestions aid teachers to support the well-being and mental health of students in a variety of ways, with material tailored for classrooms and the individual student.

Supporting the Emotional Well-being of Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities is a comprehensive resource for teachers and management in special needs schools, recognising current government policies and helping teachers to understand and appropriately engage with students as individuals and as classes.

section Section 1|26 pages

Initial engagement

chapter 1.1|3 pages

The background to Emotionally Able

chapter 1.2|6 pages

A whole school approach

chapter 1.3|3 pages

Working together

section Section 2|34 pages

Developing an emotionally supportive classroom

chapter 2.1|3 pages

The classroom

chapter 2.2|12 pages

The three-step process

chapter 2.3|17 pages

The classroom strategies

section Section 3|53 pages

Supporting an individual child