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Play for Children with Special Needs: Including Children Aged 3-8
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Product Description
This work aims to help practitioners to ensure that they are doing all they can to include children with sepcial educational needs. The author looks at several conditions such as Asperger's Syndrome, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Down's Syndrome and ADD/ADHD and shows how play can be adapted to help alleviate the difficulties children with these additional needs might have. As more and more children with a higher level of special need come into mainstream schools, teachers, nursery nurses and teaching assistants have the responsibility of ensuring that they have access to all aspects of learning. The book offers guidance on: what play is; how to adapt activities to suit children with special needs; how play can help recognition of children's progress; the most common types of special need; how play can be used to help raise self-esteem; and resources for further help. Written for those working in mainstream settings, the author shows how including children who have special needs in play can help to provide great opportunities for learning and for developing social and communication skills.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #771760 in Books
- Published on: 2002-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 142 pages
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This book will help practitioners to ensure that they are doing all they can to include children with special educational needs. The author looks at several conditions such as Asperger's Syndrome, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Down's Syndrome and ADD/ADHD and shows how play can be adapted to help alleviate the difficulties children with these additional needs might have. As more and more children with a higher level of special need come into mainstream schools, teachers, nursery nurses and teaching assistants have the responsibility of ensuring that they have access to all aspects of learning.
This book offers guidance on what play is, how to adapt activities to suit children with special needs, how play can help recognition of children's progress, the most common types of special need, how play can be used to help raise self-esteem, and resources for further help.
Written for those working in mainstream settings, the author shows how including children who have special needs in play can help to provide great opportunities for learning and for developing social and communication skills.
