Curricula for teaching children and young people with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties : practical strategies for educational professionals / Peter Imray, Viv Hinchcliffe. [print]

Pedagogical questions -- Setting the scene -- Dilemmas of difference -- Assessment and pupil progress -- Personalised learning and engagement -- Curriculum issues for those with PMLD -- cognition curriculum for pupils and students with profound and multiple learning difficulties -- communication curriculum for pupils and students with profound and multiple learning difficulties -- physical curriculum for pupils and students with profound and multiple learning difficulties -- care curriculum for pupils and students with profound and multiple learning difficulties -- sensory curriculum for pupils and students with profound and multiple learning difficulties -- Curriculum issues for those with SLD -- language, literacy and communication curriculum for pupils and students with severe learning difficulties -- mathematical thinking curriculum for pupils with severe learning difficulties -- creative arts curriculum for pupils with severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties -- problem-solving and thinking curriculum for pupils with severe learning difficulties -- play curriculum for pupils with severe learning difficulties -- citizenship curriculum for pupils with severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties.

"Curricula for Teaching Children and Young People with Severe or Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties offers a range of compelling arguments for a distinct and separate pedagogical approach to the learning needs of the most educationally challenging pupils. This book, written in accessible, common sense and non-academic language, provides an easy-to-follow alternative curriculum specifically designed to enhance and enrich the learning of children with profound and multiple learning difficulties. Chapter by chapter, guidelines and support are offered in key curriculum areas, some of which include: - Cognition - Language, Literacy and Communication - Mathematical - Physical - Sensory - Creative - Care - Play - Problem solving. This highly practical resource is essential reading for any educational professional, parents, school governors, teachers, teaching assistants, therapists and indeed anyone involved with maximising the educational opportunities of those with profound learning difficulties. Peter Imray has been a teacher of children, young people and adults with special educational needs since 1986, mostly at The Bridge School in Islington, North London. He has combined his teaching role with forming and running the Bridge School's Training and Consultancy Centre, which has established itself as one of the UK's major trainers of those working with pupils and students with SLD, PMLD and ASD. Viv Hinchcliffe is Head of ASD services in Lewisham, and has national standing as an expert in special education"--

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