Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-8bhkd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-14T22:48:18.323Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Educational Provision For Children With Very Severe Learning Difficulties in Special Care Units in the U.K.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Peter Evans  and
Jean Ware
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Seventy-eight schools in 25 local education authorities in the South-East of England catering for profoundly retarded multiply handicapped children were surveyed using a postal method. Fifty-four special care units (SCUs) in 43 schools were visited and the head teachers of the schools and the, teachers in charge of the units were interviewed. The major results of the survey concerning the SCUs, the pupils, the classroom size and organisation, the staff, visiting professionals and voluntary help are reported. Implications with regard to educability, teacher training and curriculum are made.

Type
Research Article
Information
Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , May 1986 , pp. 28 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1986

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Baer, D.M. (1981). A hung jury and a Scottish verdict: ‘Not proven’. Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, 1, 91–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bailey, J. S. (1981). Wanted: A rational search for the limiting conditions of habilitation in the retarded. Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, 1, 45–52.Google Scholar
Department of Education and Science (1975). Educating Mentally Handicapped Children. London: HMSO.Google Scholar
Evans, P.L.C. & Ware, J. E. (1985). Educational provision for the profoundly and multiply handicapped child in the United Kingdom. Paper presented at the “Models of Co-operation in Special Education” Conference of the Australian Association of Special Education. September, Launceston.Google Scholar
Evans, P.L.C. & Ware, J. E. (1986) (in press). Educational Provision for the Profoundly and Multiply Handicapped Child in Special Care Units. NFER/Nelson.Google Scholar
Hogg, J. (1984). Abnormality, learning and development in profoundly intellectually impaired people and the issue of educability. Paper presented to the “Current Perspectives on Learning in Mentally Handicapped People” Symposium, Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society. April, University of Warwick.Google Scholar
Kaufman, J. M. & Krause, J. (1981). The cult of educability: searching for the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Analysis and Intervention in Developmental Disabilities, 1, 53–60.Google Scholar