Responding to Special Education Needs

• New to this edition:
  • Examines leadership within special educational needs
  • Addresses the concept of children with special educational needs participating in their own learning
  • Recent special educational needs research conducted in Ireland is included
  • New developments in the provision of special educational needs support.

• Provides a foundation knowledge of and a framework for analysing and reflecting on issues in special education in Ireland.
  
  

• Introduces the basic concepts underlying policy, practice and provision in this area.
  
  

• Traces the development of special education policy and practice in Ireland within European and international contexts.
  
  

• The Education of Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 (EPSEN) permeates the text.
  
  

• An informal approach is used in presenting the philosophical and ethical issues underlying relevant policies and provision.
  
  

• Reflective questions and/or case studies are provided at the end of each chapter.
  
  

Second edition of this popular textbook, which establishes the area of special education within an Irish context.