Developing School Provision for Children with Dyspraxia

Nichola Jones is Assistant Head of Access and Inclusion for Bridgend County Council. She is a former Welsh President of NASEN and is a member of the General Teaching Council.

Children with Development Coordination Disorder: Setting the Scene - Nichola Jones Specific Learning Difficulties: The Spectrum - Gavin Reid Developing Service Provision in Schools - Nichola Jones Assessing Pupils with Coordination Difficulties - Barbara Walsh Developing Handwriting for Children with Coordination Difficulties - Sheila E Henderson Developing a Gross Motor Programme for Children with Coordination Difficulties - Christine Macintyre Adapting the PE Curriculum - Philip Vickerman Working In Collaboration with the Therapist - Lois Addy A Parent's Perspective - Diane Jenkins The Voice of the Child - Contributions from Bridgend County Borough Council

`This book has pulled together the expertise of a number of well-known professionals. We like the way Nichola Jones 'sets the scene', and outlines the child's main difficulties in the education environment... [T]his is a very practical book offering plenty of ideas in an area where teachers often have less confidence to put a programme in place' - SATIPS 'A wealth of ideas and opinions providing usable ways forward for colleagues in mainstream to best support their pupils with DCD. I can wholeheartedly recommend it' - Afasic News `This is an accessible overview of issues pertaining to the inclusion of children and young people wit Dyspraxia/developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD). Nichola Jones has drawn together contributions form a wider range of experts in the Dyspraxia field and produced a coherent account of how the needs of children can be met in ways that move beyond a focus solely based on individual interventions' - SENCO Update `This is both an interesting and very useful book for any primary practitioner. It also provides enough references and ideas to encourage professionals to investigate and learn more about Dyspraxia/developmental co-ordination disorder. This is a book that will fit perfectly on your bookshelf' - Special Needs Coordinators file 'This is an excellent book which would certainly be useful to many professionals seeking to include children with dyspraxia or DCD in mainstream schools. It presents the reader with a clear picture of the characteristics that contribute to the label DCD within the spectrum of specific learning difficulties. It enables the reader to assess and gather information on the particular problems experienced by individual children. It suggests to the reader ways to support these children. Finally it offers the reader an insight into how it feels to have such difficulties by presenting the voices of the children themselves - those who have experienced these difficulties first hand. I can recommend this text highly' - British Journal of Special Education