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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970764303321

Autore

Farrell Michael <1948->

Titolo

The effective teacher's guide to sensory and physical impairments : sensory, orthopaedic, motor and health impairments, and traumatic brain injury / / Michael Farrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-84859-2

1-136-84860-6

1-283-04173-1

9786613041739

0-203-83431-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

136 p. : port

Collana

Effective teacher's guides series

Disciplina

371.91

Soggetti

Children with disabilities - Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. What are sensory and physical impairments? -- 2. Visual impairment -- 3. Hearing impairment -- 4. Deafblindness -- 5. Orthopaedic impairments and motor disorders -- 6. Health impairments -- 7. Traumatic brain injury -- 8. Summary and conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

'Michael Farrell offers well sourced overviews of the conflicting and contradictory advice that is available to schools, suggests a variety of solutions to challenges, empowering the reader to make their own choices.' - Carol Smart, Special Needs Information PressFully updated with the latest research and advice on best practice, this new edition of The Effective Teacher's Guide to Sensory and Physical Impairments covers a range of conditions that cause learning difficulties for children, including visual impairment, hearing impairment, deafblindness, orthopaedic impairment, motor disorders and health impairments, as well as a brand new chapter on traumatic brain injury. Teachers are likely to meet children with varying types and degrees of sensory and physical impairments. This comprehensive guide equips you with informed and practical strategies to ensure that all pupils are included and provided for in the best possible way. The new edition has



also been adapted to be more widely relevant to readers in different countries, focusing more on the strategies that work regardless of national context. Writing in his popular accessible style, Michael Farrell suggests the best ways of dealing with a variety of conditions, always with practical classroom situations in mind. In each section, the book:explains the legal contextslooks at the range of provisionsuggests intervention and support strategiesgives points for reflection and suggested further reading. Highly accessible and authoritative, this book provides teachers with an invaluable resource to help you create a truly inclusive classroom.