ABSTRACT

This book celebrates good practice in the area of early years and special needs by bringing together authors who are either practitioners or researchers, from a range of different and diverse early years settings including nurseries and units providing special provision. They describe their work with young children who have different and distinctive special needs and disabilities.

chapter |14 pages

Chapter 1 Profiling early years and special needs

Celebrations of practice

chapter |11 pages

Chapter 2 Working together in different ways

Rodney House School

chapter |11 pages

Chapter 5 ‘Listen Hear'

Parents supporting parents with deaf children

chapter |14 pages

Chapter 6 Research and practice

An evaluation of an education improvement strategy to support teachers and parents of young children with special educational needs

chapter |10 pages

Chapter 7 Play Partners

Parental involvement in a pre-school project for children with communication difficulties

chapter |11 pages

Chapter 9 Behaviour problems in the early years

The conceptualisation of behaviour problems and its relevance to management approaches

chapter |15 pages

Chapter 12 Sheffield Early Childhood Association

A snapshot of Sheffield Practice