Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Issues and Debates / Edition 1

by Trevor Cotterill

Overview

Offering more than just advice for classroom practice, this core textbook focuses on the issues and debates surrounding SEND to encourage readers to think critically and reflect upon topical issues and their relation to practice. The author bridges the gap between issues and debates in the wider context, and specific areas of debates and discourse surrounding specific learning difficulties, drawing on a continuation of themes and evidence-based research. Each chapter includes a range of learning features to encourage criticality and deepen understanding. These are:

• Exercises and activities
• Pause for reflection boxes
• Case studies
• Recommended reading

Taking an interdisciplinary and globally comparative approach, and drawing on a range of perspectives, this book will equip both students and professionals with a critical overview of contemporary research, alongside policy and legislation, to empower and inform them in a range of debates surrounding SEND and specific syndromes and difficulties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526427779
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/12/2025
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	7.32(w) x 9.13(h) x (d)

About the Author

Trevor Cotterill is Programme Leader of the BA (Hons) SEND at the University of Derby.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Issues and Debates into the Aetiology of SEND
Chapter 2: Historical development of SEND
Chapter 3: Critical and Global perspectives
Chapter 4: SEND, Inclusion and current legislation
Chapter 5: Professionalism, Ethical Practice and Safeguarding
Chapter 6: Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities/Difficulties
Chapter 7: Language, Literacies and Dyslexia
Chapter 8: Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Chapter 9: Attention Disorders (ADD, ADHD)
Chapter 10: Cognitive Diversity (Cognitive disability, Dyscalculia)
Chapter 11: Diversity in Speech, Language and Communication Development
Chapter 12: Mental Health and Wellbeing