Educating Young Children with Special Needs

Louise Porter is a child psychologist with many years' experience of working with children. She lectures in the School of Education at Flinders University of South Australia and is author of Behaviour in Schools, Gifted Young Children, and Young Children's Behaviour, and co-author of Professional Collaboration with Parents of Children with Disabilities.

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF EARLY YEARS EDUCATION Fundamentals of Early Education - Louise Porter Collaborating with Parents - Louise Porter Identification and Assessment - Louise Porter Principles of Program Individualisation - Louise Porter PART TWO: PROGRAMMING FOR ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS Vision - James D Kenefick Motor Skills - Margaret Sullivan Daily Living Skills - Zara Soden Hearing - Lindsay Burnip Communication Skills - Bernice Burnip Cognitive Skills - Louise Porter Emotional and Social Needs - Louise Porter Guiding Children's Behaviour - Louise Porter

'In scope and spread this book deserves to become a standard text for policy-makers, practitioners, those in training and their tutors. I welcome this book for its coverage of typical and a-typical development in young children and its emphasis upon an ethical and principled approach to working with young children and their families' - Professor Sheila Wolfendale, Director of the Doctorate in Educational Psychology programme at the University of East London