The Education and Care of Children with Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities Musical Activities to Develop Basic Skills

This is a practical guide to managing the whole curriculum for children with severe learning difficulties (SLD). Crucial guidance and effective strategies are provided on how to reconcile the rights, needs and aspirations of such children in light of recent national trends and QCA guidelines.

Introduction; Managing the SLD school;Shaping the school curriculum;The recommended curriculum model; Learning styles and teaching styles;Development of the 21st century school for children with SLD.

Academic and Professional Practice & Development

Richard Aird

A practical guide to the ways in which the Learning Support Assistant can effectively support the class teacher with regard to literacy and numeracy frameworks. The authors provide a description of the roles and responsibilities of the learning support assistant and its effect of raising standards in schools, illustrate how children learn through the literacy and numeracy frameworks, and describe how learning support assistants can support children in the literacy class and mathematics.