Supporting Children with Multiple Disabilities - Softcover

Mednick, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841900427 ISBN 13: 9781841900421

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2002

Synopsis

When considering speech and language impairment we are talking about a significant proportion of school-age children. This book describes how speech and language difficulties can adversely affect children's learning, in both specialist and mainstream settings. It outlines the main areas of difficulty for pupils, and suggests how teachers can make the curriculum more accessible for such pupils so facilitate learning.

Expressive language, receptive language, social use of language and developmental co-ordination difficulties are discussed, as are specific curriculum subjects like English, maths and science. Throughout the book there is a balance of information and practical ideas for supporting these pupils, and a comprehensive selection of suggestions for good practice. Included is a motor skills programme, rhymes for speech production and memory work, and photocopiable dictionary pages.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Mednick is a highly experienced and qualified teacher of children with multiple disabilities and of those with profound and severe learning difficulties.

He is also a qualified teacher of the deaf, and of the visually impaired. He has a professional certificate for multi-sensory impairment and a second professional certificate in management for special education.

He has taught in a variety of special schools, including schools for children who have severe and moderate learning difficulties, and in schools for children who are deaf, autistic and visually impaired. He has worked extensively with children with acute medical needs and with children across different age ranges. He was head of a Further Education Unit for those with severe learning difficulties for four years. He has taught in mainstream primary and secondary schools as a support teacher and worked in a primary and secondary school with a unit for deaf and partially hearing children for four years. He is currently Head of Service for visually impaired children for an inclusive education authority and has been in this post for ten years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841900427
• ISBN 13: 9781841900421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192