500 Tips for Working With Children With

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.

Introduction

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Chapter 1 Strategies for enhancing learning by children with special needs

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1 Strategies for effective communication and problem-solving using good listening skills

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2 Suggestions for teachers of mathematics on how to support pupils with special educational needs

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3 Strategies to support pupils who are school or classroom refusers

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4 Helping pupils who have English as a second language

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5 Facilitating the completion of examination coursework

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6 Supporting pupils with a hearing impairment

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7 The use of writing frames to assist pupils in non-fiction writing

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8 Supporting refugee pupils in the classroom

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9 Identifying pupils who are working at a significantly lower level than their peers

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10 Identifying pupils with low self-esteem

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11 Strategies to improve low self-esteem in pupils

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12 Establishing successful school contact with parents and carers

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13 Responding to physical impairment

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14 Devising or modifying homework

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15 Identifying strengths and weaknesses for multi-sensory teaching strategies

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16 Multi-sensory teaching strategies for specific learning difficulties

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17 Looking after your needs as a teacher of pupils with special educational needs

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Chapter 2 Improving unacceptable behaviour

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18 Devising and evaluating a diagnostic behaviour questionnaire

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19 Strategies to cope with rude and negative behaviour

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20 Dealing with pupils whose emotional and behavioural difficulties lead to disaffection and isolation in the classroom

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21 Assisting the reintegration of excluded pupils

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22 Supporting pupils who are being bullied

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23 Helping bullies to change their behaviour

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24 Improving the ethos of a problem class

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25 Dealing with disruption in the classroom

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Chapter 3 Specific special needs issues

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26 Identifying and meeting the needs of able / gifted pupils

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27 Identifying pupils with Attention Deficit Disorder

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28 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

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29 Autistic Spectrum Disorders

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30 Asperger's Syndrome

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31 Dyslexia

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32 Supporting pupils with language impairment

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Language impairment -- checklist of concern

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33 Dyspraxia

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34 Tips for improving reading

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35 Tips for improving spelling

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36 Paired reading

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37 Being an effective learning support teacher in a mainstream classroom

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38 Identifying pupils who may be experiencing physical, emotional or sexual abuse

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Chapter 4 Tips for non-specialists on helping children with special needs

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39 Identifying a special need: what should you be doing?

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40 Identifying a special need: should you have known?

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41 Working effectively in the classroom with a peripatetic learning support teacher

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42 Identifying special needs: an alphabetical compendium

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Absences

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Absenteeism or truancy

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(1)

Antagonism

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Anti-social behaviour

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(1)

Attention seeking

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(1)

Attention span

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(1)

Bullying

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(1)

Calling out

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(1)

Cautious pupils

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(1)

Childishness

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(1)

Clumsiness

107

(1)

Copying problems

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(1)

Defensiveness

108

(1)

Defiance

109

(1)

Examination phobia

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(1)

Excessively critical pupils

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(1)

Handwriting problems

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(1)

Hyperactivity

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(1)

Hypochondria

110

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Immaturity

111

(1)

Insecurity

112

(1)

Jokers

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(1)

Left-handedness

113

(1)

ME

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(1)

Memory problems

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Moodiness

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Muscular dystrophy

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(1)

Nervousness

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(1)

Obsessive behaviour

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(1)

Outbursts

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Post-traumatic shock disorder

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(1)

Questioning everything

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Quiet pupils

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Rudeness

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Reading difficulties

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(1)

Self-mutilation and self-harm

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(1)

Sensory impairment

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(1)

Sequencing difficulties

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Sexually inappropriate behaviour

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(1)

Short concentration span

119

(1)

Slow responses

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(1)

Speech difficulties

120

(1)

Spelling difficulties

120

(1)

Stutters

120

(1)

Telling lies repeatedly

121

(1)

Tired pupils

121

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Withdrawn pupils

121

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Information Section

123

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References

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Glossary

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Index

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500 Tips for Working With Children With Special Needs

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