Special needs and the beginning teacher

Every teacher will encounter pupils with special needs.

How to recognise these pupils, diagnose their needs and teach them effectively are crucial issues, and ones that inspectors and teacher appraisers monitor carefully.

This manual provides advice on dealing with a range of special needs - from those concerned with literacy and numeracy, through sensory impairment and bilingualism, to emotional and behavioural difficulties.

The authors also examine that much-forgotten set of special needs - the needs of more able children.