The authors have experience of health, social services and education, as well as working in multi-disciplinary teams and supporting children, young people and their families as part of Special Networks, based in London.
In this book, the authors focus on the needs of young people, rather than just on their diagnosis, taking people’s differences seriously and moving away from a narrow ‘medical model’. They acknowledge the role of the physical and social environment and how ‘uncertainty’ is a central difficulty we all face in the current climate. The authors provide a very useful route map through the book, with quick links to specific subjects such as: ‘Are you unsure how to help students with sensory-based difficulties?’
Chapters include:
- Understanding uncertainty, glasses, paths and dials
- Structure: Activities to support structural certainty
- Sensory: Activities to support sensory certainty
- Social: Activities to support social certainty
- Conclusions and hopes for the future
This is a very practical workbook that provides the reader with many checklists, quizzes, strategies, activities and supporting references for further information. There is a useful set of guidelines, for example, when thinking about how to present teaching materials, based on information from the British Dyslexia Association and from their own observations and conversations with students.
Highly recommended for teachers, parents and anyone in contact with teenagers.
Authors: C. Ward and J. Galpin
Illustrators: C. Ward and O. Latham
ISBN: 978-1-78775-396-9
Price: £22.99
Author: Mary Mountstephen
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