ABSTRACT
If all departments and all teachers are to play their part in providing for all the pupils in a school, all teachers need to develop some expertise in dealing with pupils' special needs within their own subject areas. Much of the finding out may be done by the staff of the special needs department but if subject teachers are to provide for them within their classes it will be helpful if they too make observations about the nature of the problems. This will help both the special needs and the subject teachers to provide for them and add to the store of information within the school. Pupils of any level of intelligence may have language and literacy problems. Some pupils will have specific problems in using language, perhaps in articulation, in constructing sentences or in spelling or writing. The errors pupils make in speech and writing often give clues to the nature of their problems.
