500 Tips for Working with Children with Special Needs

This text provides practical advice and support for people involved in working with children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). It takes a broad-based approach, aiming to combine pragmatic advice with theoretical underpinning, to provide SEN and classroom teachers with insight into support.

Brown, Sally; Harwood, Sally; Vahid, Betty

Identifying children with SEN; producing profiles/identifiers; behavioural analysis; performance analysis; working with children with emotional/learning/social/medical/physical difficulties; working with children who are classroom refusers/gifted/abused/being bullied; working with educational psychologists; knowing when to seek specialist help; how the special needs teacher helps the mainstream teacher and vice versa; vocational routes for children with special needs; helping children with low self-esteem; producing individual education plans; involving parents of children with special needs.