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Special Educational Needs
A Guide for Inclusive Practice
Fourth Edition
Edited by:
- Lindsay Peer - Educational Psychologist, UK
- Gavin Reid - Educational Psychologist, Canada
- Jennie Guise - DysGuise Ltd, UK
- Katrina Cochrane - Positive Dyslexia, UK
January 2027 | 384 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This guide to inclusive practice covers contemporary policy issues, perspectives from practice and specialist guidance across a wide range of common syndromes. Each chapter is written by experts from fields within special and additional educational needs and shows how research-led and evidence-based knowledge can support outstanding classroom practice.
This heavily updated fourth edition, led by new co-editors Jennie Guise and Katrina Cochrane, includes new chapters on:
- Neurodiversity and inclusion
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Intersectionality and disability
- Contemporary definitions of dyslexia
- Mental health knowledge and awareness
- Executive function
- Twice-exceptional learners
- Continual professional development
- Assistive technology
- Resilience
Jennie Guise and Katrina Cochrane
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Moving Forward in SEN
Amanda Kirby and Gavin Reid
Chapter 2: Neurodiversity - Moving Towards an Inclusive Future
Donna Stevenson
Chapter 3: Intersectionality, Neurodiversity and Disability – Unlearning Invisibility and the Importance of Radical Compassion
Rachael McMullen
Chapter 4: A New Definition of Dyslexia
Janet Goring
Chapter 5: How can a definition of a Specific Learning Difficulty in mathematics/Dyscalculia be used to inform classroom support?
Alison Szalay, Fran Foreman, Julie Ross, Rhiannon Packer, Jan Frost, Rebecca James and Trevor James
Chapter 6: Beyond Legislation – support for dyslexia and inclusion in England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland
Part II: Perspectives from Practice
Juanita Hurley and Sally Moore
Chapter 7: Speech, Language and Communication
Doris-Eva Bamiou and Tony Sirimanna
Chapter 8: Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
Sally Scott-Roberts and Catherine Purcell
Chapter 9: Developmental Coordination Disorder/ Developmental Dyspraxia in the Context of Education
Lynn Lovell and Helen Goodsall
Chapter 10: Training for Professionals – The Importance of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Steve Chinn
Chapter 11: Mathematical Learning Difficulties and Dyscalculia
Laura Cook
Chapter 12: Assistive Technology to support Learners with Dyslexia
Part III: Overlapping Neurodiversities
Tony Lloyd and Colin Foley
Chapter 13: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – (ADHD)
John Ravenscroft and Elizabeth McCann
Chapter 14: Visual and Cerebral Visual Impairment and Education: Beyond Mere Awareness Raising
Jill Duncan
Chapter 15: Inclusive Education for Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Fidelma Healy Eames
Chapter 16: The Twice-Exceptional Learner: Hear My Cry
Jenn Clark
Chapter 17: Understanding Executive Function - The Path to Inclusion and Universal Design for Learning
Jo-Ann Page
Chapter 18: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Research, Practice and Experience
Part IV: Working Together
Jillian Zocher and Katie Nelson
Chapter 19: Parents as Partners
Susan Flohr
Chapter 20: Children and Young People’s Voices
Part V: Mental Health/Feeling Positive
Rob Long
Chapter 21: Mental Health Knowledge and Awareness
Stan Godek
Chapter 22: Mental Health and Resilience
