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Each
Belongs. The remarkable story of the first school system to move to
inclusion
by Jim Hansen with Gerv
Leyden, Gary Bunch, Jack Pearpoint
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Order code: 02-B038 Price: £15.50
Format: 295x235mm 342pp wire
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The
Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board has just celebrated 30
Years of Fully Inclusive Education for All. Their mission statement:
"EACH BELONGS".
This remarkable book by Jim Hansen collects the
history - including an extensive collection of documents and letters from
teachers and families - that tell the stories of the struggles from the
inside over 30 years.
For anyone who ever has the thought, "It's a
great idea, but let's be realistic," this is
an important book. Hamilton is a steel town. It is a collage of immigrant
communities. It isn't wealthy. They had no extra funds. They believed it was
possible - and important and they just did it. Their secret is extra love
and caring for all.
About
the DVD: Each Belongs is a great
book. But, you need to see and hear Jim Hansen and his team to fully
appreciate the remarkable work they did to welcome all students. So we made
a DVD. It is 'interviews' with Jim Hansen and his colleague Phil DiFrancesco on how they created an inclusive school
system. They are frank, funny and profound. If you need to have your
schools and families hear it from the horse's mouth - you need this DVD.
Two additional interviews put this work in context. Gary Bunch, a Professor
of Education from York University in Toronto
reviews the history of special education and puts Hamilton in that context. Gerv Leyden is a freelance consultant and special
lecturer in educational psychology at the University
of Nottingham, who has observed
the Hamilton
experience over the decades. He summarizes the British experience and puts
the Hamilton
experience in that context.
Audience: A great resource
book for educators, families and policy makers who want to make inclusion
happen - especially in a school system
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by
Margaret Collins
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Order code: 22-B004 Price: £14.00
Format: 200x200mm 107pp wire
bound
Circle Time is being used more and
more in schools, nurseries and playschools. This book seeks to move ideas
forward in setting out a strategy for enhancing Circle Time by
pre-activities, encouraging children to focus on the content of Circle Time
as a way of sharing ideas, their work and thoughts. The three steps in this book to help set
the scene before Circle Time and extend learning afterwards are; providing
a starting point to help you to find out where the children are in their
knowledge and understanding of the work you want to do • sharing and celebrating during Circle
Time what the children bring to this topic, preparing the children for
further work • suggesting follow up activities which you
may use or modify to suit your class.
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Essential
Lifestyle Planning. A handbook for facilitators
by Michael Smull &
Helen Sanderson with Bill Allen
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Order code: 16-B003 Price: £29.90 £17.80
Format: 295x235mm 342pp wire
bound
A
person centred plan is a means not an end. The life that the person wants
is the outcome, not the plan that describes it. Person centred planning is
a process of learning how a person wants to live and then describing what
needs to be done to help the person move toward that life.
Essential
lifestyle planning began in the late 1980's, at the University of Maryland,
where Michael Smull & Susan Burke-Harrison
were asked to help people return to their home communities from
institutions and residential schools. All of the people that they were
asked to help return to their communities had been labelled as 'not ready'
for life in the community and their records supported this impression. We
have found that developing an essential lifestyle plan is useful for anyone
where it helps to discover what is important to a person in everyday life;
and what is important for a person in order for them to stay healthy and
safe describe what you have learned in a way that is easily accessible to
those who will help that person get what is important to them. Throughout
the 1990's the use of essential lifestyle planning was extended to other
people-to individuals living at home, to those using community services, to
children and to older adults.
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Essential
Lifestyle Planning For Everyone
by
Michael W Smull and Helen Sanderson with
Charlotte Sweeney, Louise Skelhorn,
Amanda George, Mary Lou Bourne and Michael Steinbruck
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Order
code: 21-B003 Price: £19.00
(bulk
order 10+ code 21-B003T Price: £14.95)
295x210mm 166pp paperback
This
is the second edition of the facilitator’s handbook, which is a resource
manual for those people who develop essential lifestyle plans. Since first
developing essential lifestyle planning in the late 1980s—early 1990s the
authors have continued to learn how to better develop plans that helped
people who use disability services get the lives that they wanted. This
edition of the handbook moves from a focus on plans with people with
disabilities, to plans for everyone who wants one. Essential lifestyle planning
is now used with children and families, with people who have mental health
issues, with older people and with people who have drug and alcohol issues.
What we teach and how we teach changes
as we learn more about what needs to be present in order to develop good
plans that make a difference. Much of our latest learning is reflected in
this workbook. Our cautionary note is that we continue to learn. This is a
snapshot of a moving target. If you have the first edition, look for the
new material in this edition. If you find this edition useful, look for
updates. If you are using this workbook and it is more than two years after
the publication date, look for a new edition. And if you would like to
contribute to the learning please contact us.
Following the introduction, the 8
chapters in this book are;
Person centred thinking ● Essential lifestyle planning ● Think before you plan ●
Gathering information ●
Developing the first plan ●
The planning meeting ●
Putting the plan into
practice and ongoing learning ●
Going from first plans to
great plans
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Everybody in.
A guide for Practitioners and teachers
by
Richard Rieser
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Order code: 06-B007 Price: £7.50
£4.00
Format:
295x210mm 77pp wire bound
A book for teachers at Foundation
Stage and KS1. Inclusion of disabled children into early years
settings and primary school is a key objective in education currently. The
principles of inclusion now underpin the Foundation Curriculum. In Key
Stage 1 and primary and secondary education there is increasing emphasis on
developing inclusive provision. Inclusion is not the same as Integration or
Segregation. If inclusion is to work all the key partners have to be
involved—children, parents, practitioners or teachers and disabled people
in the community. This book contains a wealth of information and advice to
assist teachers who want the inclusion of all children.
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Everyone
belongs. Inclusive education for children with severe and profound learning
disabilities
by Kenn
Jupp
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Order code: 03-B001 Price
£9.99
Format: 135x220mm 203pp paperback
This pioneering book sets out to
challenge the fabric and very existence of special schools, now back again
to coincide with the onset of valuing people and the code of practice. It
challenges, too, the wider culture and infrastructure of enforced separate
living that segregated special education systems impose on children and
their families. Kenn Jupp
describes his experiences in initiating and carrying out a pilot study in
which five children, all with severe or profound learning difficulties, were each given an opportunity to attend
their local mainstream school.
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