ABSTRACT
The ideas behind the project sprang jointly from senior school staff at a local authority special school, and members of the support and psychological service. In this particular project, at Elmwood School, Somerset, a group of parents of slow-learning children were invited to a series of evening discussion meetings. When the idea of the project was first suggested to the parents, there was a ready response from them and the level of interest which was subsequently maintained tended to confirm the feeling that a need might exist for this sort of structured support work. Criteria for the reward of a 'house point' were agreed upon with the result that each child's weekly chart was returned by the parents to the headteacher for the reward of a 'house point' as appropriate. To ask parents to demonstrate how they work with their child at home can be revealing and instructive.
