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These are just some of the publications available from SENJIT:
Making Sense of Spelling (revised 2002) (£3.50)
A
booklet to help both teachers and pupils to cope with spelling difficulties. It
was written by Robin Millar and Cynthia Klein, now Director of Dyspell, and is
aimed at secondary pupils and adults. It analyses the problems faced by poor
spellers and offers suggestions for learning.
Handwriting -Are you Concerned? (£2.50)
Published by
the Handwriting Interest Group with the sponsorship of Philip & Tacey Ltd,
this booklet aims to alert parents to handwriting difficulties and to provide
guidance to remedying them.
Eyes (£2.00)
Intended for class teachers. It seeks to
explain the problems faced by children with impaired vision. There are
suggestions making learning easier for these children and a pull-out section on
how to look after glasses.
A Reintegration Programme for Pupils with Emotional and Behavioural
Difficulties (£5.00)
By Jane McSherry. Aimed at specialists and
based on research carried out with teachers in EBD and mainstream schools. it
offers an agreed set of criteria for readiness to reintegrate and set of
evaluative tools for assessment.
Working with Pupils with Challenging Behaviour - A Checklist for
Teachers Working with Other Adults in the Classroom (£5.00)
Pupils
with challenging behaviour can cause all adults involved with them tremendous
stress. It is important that there is a clear understanding as to how best to
work together to support both the pupil and each other. The checklist is a
small booklet which can stand alone, form the basis of in-service training
sessions or be used by individual teachers to negotiate roles and establish a
basis for shared practice. The booklet is available in packs of five and is
accompanied by an A3 poster for staff-room display.
Talking Points: Including Children with Language and Communication Difficulties (Teaching Assistants and Trainers) (£7.00) The SENJIT Peripatetic Teachers' Support Group for Language and Communication Difficulties (LCD) has compiled this manual to support teaching assistants and those who work with them on their professional development. It offers detailed guidance on a range of issues including the recognition of LCD; their relationship to learning and behaviour; practical activities and strategies for the classroom and advice for supporting children in literacy and mathematics lessons. It is completely photo-copiable.
Management of Special Units (£5.00)
This booklet is a
report on the second phase of a study of resource base and unit management. It
considers aspects of unit management and inclusion and discusses the
development of policy, the involvement of a range of professionals and training
issues. Sue Flockton and Margaret Kumsang, the authors, are both highly
experienced managers of SEN provision and have worked with units for SEN of all
kinds. These reports are significant for the development of national policy.
They are also being used by managers to formulate policy for their own resource
bases and units.
Communication Difficulties, the Classroom & the Curriculum. J.
Roux, R. Lacey, H. Brookes & M. Blamires (£46.50)
This pack is
the product of four speech/language therapists' combined experience of planning
and delivering INSET to teachers in a wide range of school settings. It offers
a comprehensive and thoroughly evaluated training course. It was successfully
piloted with a mixed group of primary teachers and educational psychologists.
Each of the 4 modules contains 2 - 5 sessions, which together constitute a
self-contained unit of teaching. Delivery of the whole course requires 11
sessions, but the modular structure of the pack allows for shorter courses to
be run. Many photo-copiable resource materials are included.
Work Related Programmes in Supporting Inclusion (£9.00)
This report, on Work Related Programmes for Disapplied Pupils
at Key Stage 4, was based on responses from 44 schools to a SENJIT survey. The
report looks at three main areas of provision: extended work experience,
college link courses and alternative work related courses in school. Emerging
issues and critical tasks included forging links with extended work experience,
developing a monitoring system to track progress in work related learning,
rationalising timetables and curriculum to provide effective learning and
evaluating the overall effectiveness of the work related programmes. The report
was compiled by Jim Forrest.
Developmental Coordination Disorder (£4.00)
This booklet
written by Professor David Sugden, Helen Wright, Mary Chambers and Ann Markee
is aimed specifically at parents and others concerned with children who have
difficulty with movement skills. Topics include the nature of the difficulties,
a case study, how parents can get help (with reference to the SEN Code of
Practice) and how parents themselves can help.
School Target Setting in Special Schools: Review and
Recommendations (£5.00)
Government curriculum guidance for
'planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning
difficulties' (DfEE/QCA, 2001), makes clear that in planning the curriculum,
schools must determine the learning priorities for their pupils with learning
difficulties. Tim Kent wrote this booklet with the help of colleagues in
special schools to suggest approaches to target setting for youngsters who are
unlikely to reach level 2 of the National Curriculum by the age 16.
Which Handwriting Scheme? (£7.00)
Which handwriting
scheme is the best for us? This is a question that can take many hours of
research to answer. The Handwriting Interest Group's latest publication will
help to simplify this task. This pack contains reviews of 15 currently
available handwriting schemes published in the UK. Each scheme is summarised,
its aims are stated and some pages are reproduced so that teachers can see how
much detail is given on the worksheets, how and when important stages in
handwriting teaching, such as joining, are addressed, and the style of writing
used.
Self Esteem 2nd edition (£2.00)
This booklet will be of
interest to parents, teachers and LSAs. It looks at the relationship between
self esteem and learning difficulties and makes suggestions for helping to
raise the self esteem of pupils.
Tools of the Trade (£3.00)
Handwriting is a skill which
has to be systematically taught and which depends on efficient use of tools and
efficient tools to use. There is a confusing diversity of equipment available
for handwriting. This booklet considers "how to choose and how to use"
equipment for handwriting. Published by the Handwriting Interest Group.
Training Teachers in Behaviour Management (£12.00)
John
Bayley and Lynda Haddock are expert teachers of pupils whose behaviour causes
concern. This book is their guide to training on behaviour and EBD and contains
many ideas developed in their successful courses. The book also includes a
valuable section which summarises the many training packs available on
behaviour management.
Specific Learning Difficulties: Resources Booklet (£3.50)
This valuable booklet, prepared by Gillian Hawley and Sarah
Rae, lists resources and organisations which support the learning of pupils
with specific learning difficulties. The areas covered include dyslexia, hand
writing, autistic spectrum disorder and language impairment. The advice is
detailed and thorough and accompanied by descriptions of routes to support,
including a section on education and employment for adults.
For more information contact: SENJIT . Web site: www.ioe.ac.uk/teepnnp/SENJIT_Home.html