ABSTRACT
As is clear from earlier chapters the primary responsibility for making provision to meet special educational needs has to rest with individual schools and the teachers within those schools. On a day to day basis it is the teacher’s job to decide how best to help particular children within the educational setting. Giving that responsibility to another institution-the special school-is still possible but is likely to be less common as the move towards integration increases. Giving that responsibility totally to a small group of specialist teachers within a school is also possible but also less common if our research data are representative of current trends. It now seems far more likely that the responsibility will be shared between the ordinary class teacher and the specialist.
