Includes CD-Rom
Based on the authors' own clinical practice and extensive experience in the field, this book is a creative and flexible aid to helping children with learning difficulties.
Their accessible and positive approach, 'Functional Learning', focuses on helping children learn, children's potential, and what they can rather than cannot do. It is based on the purposeful 'doing' by the young child and can be carried out at home, school or the therapy room with either parents, teacher or therapist. The approach, which is cross-cultural, can be extended to all aspects of the child's life, and enables them to participate in everyday activities at home and school.
Fully illustrated, the book draws extensively on the authors' many years of practical work and offers techniques and activities used to help children develop their learning with a focus on:
- Development of Learning Tools
- Working with parents
- Language and communication
- Behaviour and emotional development
- Integration of learning into everyday life
The book includes a CD-Rom/DVD with printable material for making cards and worksheets, plus illustrative video material.
This book is suitable for anyone working with or caring for a child with learning difficulties, or with autistic spectrum disorders; for SEN teachers and SENCOs, early years training, teacher training and child development courses, as well as parents.
Recommended video resources:
Learning and Communication
http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/products/learning-and-communication-programmes-for-developmentally-delayed-children-568/
Understanding Understanding
http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/products/understanding-understanding-1157/
Table of Contents:
Historical Background
Play and Learning
Functional Learning
Assessment
PART ONE: DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEARNING TOOLS
The Placing Tool
The Piling Tool
The Banging and the Drawing Tool
The Pairing Tool
The Matching Tool
The Sorting Tool
The Sequencing Tool
The Brick-Building Tool
PART TWO: EXTENDING THE LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Coding
Intersectional Sorting
Worksheets
PART THREE: COMMUNICATION, EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND THE FAMILY
Language and Communication
Therapeutic Work with Parents
Feeding and Eating in Young Children with Developmental Delay
PART FOUR: FUNCTIONAL LEARNING IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS
A Class in a Residential Unit
Functional Learning and Inclusion in Mainstream Education
International Links
