
Including Children with Attention and Behaviour Difficulties in the Foundation Stage
Maureen Garner(Author)
Featherstone (Publisher)
Published on 21. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-1-4729-0657-1 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of the Including Children with... series is to equip practitioners and carers with the basic information they require in order to understand particular special needs and respond appropriately to the child and his or her parents. The emphasis is on helping the child to participate as fully as possible in the curriculum, on equal terms with his or her peers. Each book will -Inform you by: Providing essential background information about the particular need; Telling you about the particular learning requirements of children with that need; Indicating further resources and sources of help; Unraveling the complexities of working with a range of different agencies. Support you by: Offering tried and tested teaching tips; Giving advice about working with support staff; Giving practical strategies for differentiation. Inspire you by: Suggesting a range of activity ideas across all the areas of learning; Offering great ideas to help children make a smooth startto education. Make you think by asking: How does it feel to have this need? What's it like to be the parent of a child with this need?
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
208 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-0657-1 (9781472906571)
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Person
Trained as a nursery and primary teacher, Maureen Garner taught four to seven year olds before becoming a community teacher with responsibility for developing partnership working with parents and developing multi agency working. Maureen worked for many years as a specialist teacher with babies and very young children with complex special needs and their parents. She developed many new resources bespoke to the needs of individual children and families. Maureen has a particular interest in imaginative play and creative development and specializes in easy to make play props from everyday objects.
Maureen keeps her hand in by volunteering in the Foundation Stage Unit at her grandchildren's school where she helps with ideas and resources for imaginative play.
Maureen keeps her hand in by volunteering in the Foundation Stage Unit at her grandchildren's school where she helps with ideas and resources for imaginative play.