The Nature of Special Education

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
General Introduction......Page 10
Part One: Special Biographies......Page 14
1 Special Education in a Garden Hut: The Story of Helen Keller......Page 16
2 Emma: A Child in a Residential Unit for Multiply-Handicapped Children......Page 22
3 William: A Child with Down's Syndrome......Page 26
4 Christopher: A Physically Handicapped Child in an Ordinary School......Page 29
5 Help When it's Needed: A Progress Student in a Comprehensive School......Page 33
6 Parent’s Choice: A Blind Girl Educated in an Ordinary School......Page 36
7 Another Chance: A Child From a Day School For Maladjusted Children......Page 40
8 Routes to a Residential School for the Deaf......Page 44
9 'Hyperactive' Children......Page 50
10 'I Never Felt I Had to Try': Recollections of a Woman Who Had Childhood Rheumatoid Arthritis......Page 54
11 Living With Epilepsy......Page 58
12 Professional 'Help': The Taylor Family......Page 61
13 'There'll Never be a Time When I'm Young and Free'......Page 66
14 'They Get This Training But They Don't Really Know How You Feel'......Page 70
15 The Wilson Family......Page 76
16 Caring for a Mentally Handicappted Child: The Daily Routine......Page 81
17 Help Yourselves: Support Services for Parents of a Severely Handicapped Boy......Page 85
18 Doubly Handicapped: Disabled and Poor......Page 88
19 Jacqueline Cunningham, A Daugher......Page 94
20 Parent Participation: Setting Up a Special Unit in a Private School......Page 99
21 Dame Evelyn Fox......Page 113
22 Jenny: A Career in Special Education......Page 118
23 Barry Marks: A Californian Program Specialist......Page 123
24 Julie Lorraine: A Teacher of Mentally Handicapped Students in California......Page 130
25 A Community Worker in a Special School......Page 134
Part Two: Perspectives On Handicap......Page 139
26 Off Duty: Educational Psychologists Discuss Their Job......Page 141
27 Minds of their Own: One Teacher's Philosophy......Page 148
28 Growing Up in Care......Page 152
29 Four Physically Handicapped Graduates......Page 157
30 The Prevention Business......Page 162
31 Ordinary Secondary School What its Students Say......Page 171
32 Pleasing Teacher......Page 179
33 Chalkway School: A Remedial Department in the Process of Change......Page 183
34 An ESN (S) School and the Labour Market......Page 193
Part Three: Procedures, Places and Change......Page 203
35 Steven: Life in a Residential School for Maladjusted Boys......Page 205
36 Debbie: A Curriculum for a Partially Sighted Girl......Page 212
37 After School: Further Education for Handicapped Adolescents......Page 216
38 Tokens and Tantrums: A Behaviour Modification Programme......Page 230
39 The Federal Process: Daniel and Harriet......Page 234
40 Integration in Practice: A Small Rural Primary School......Page 249
41 Scenes from Ward 7......Page 254
42 Towards a School Policy for Remedial Provision......Page 265
43 The Curriculum at Coates School for ESN(S) Children......Page 275
44 Crofton Infants School: A Unit For ESN(S) Children......Page 286
45 Westhall School for Children with Learning Difficulties......Page 295
46 Developments at Pingle School......Page 306
47 Providing for Handicapped Children at J T Cobb......Page 317
48 An Individual Timetabling System......Page 322
49 Four Handicapped Teenagers in Transition......Page 327
50 Blueprint for Increasing Integration in an Infant School......Page 342
51 Some Aspects of Special Education in Oxfordshire: Innovation and Change......Page 347
Appendix Special Needs in Education: The Open University's First Full Course On the Education of Handicapped Children......Page 364
Index......Page 369