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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
	Order code: 02-B038 Price: £15.50 Format: 295x235mm 342pp wire bound 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
Enhancing circle time for the very young by Margaret Collins
	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.

Essential Lifestyle Planning. A handbook for facilitators by Michael Smull & Helen Sanderson with Bill Allen
	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.
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
		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
Everybody in. A guide for Practitioners and teachers by Richard Rieser
		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.
Everyone belongs. Inclusive education for children with severe and profound learning disabilities by Kenn Jupp
		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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