ABSTRACT
This chapter is a very basic starting point and aims to provide you with further avenues of enquiry. Bear in mind, as already discussed, that the educational needs of children and young people do not fall into neat boxes or categories. Although needs have been grouped for the purposes of this introduction, the needs of many learners will span more than one group. The range of difficulties resulting from a particular disorder may also span more than one group, e.g. autism may result in communication, language, global learning and behavioural difficulties for one child while for another child with less severe autism, needs may relate mostly to communication.
