Special Educational Needs

Ronald Gulliford is Emeritus Professor of Special Education at the University of Birmingham, and has been involved in teacher education for special educational needs since the early 1950s. His first book (with A. E. Tansley) in I960 aimed to broaden ideas and practice in educating slow learners. Special Educational Needs (1971) outlined the difficulties and needs of children with various kinds of disability - it is a sign of how the field has developed that this new edition of the book requires specialist contributions.Graham Upton is Professor and Head of the School of Education at the University of Birmingham. He has taught in ordinary and special schools, and been involved in teacher education in colleges of education, a polytechnic and two university education departments. In addition to research conducted in conjunction with his own higher degrees, he has conducted large-scale funded research in a number of areas of special education.

• Keith Bovair, Brian Fraser, Heather Mason, Carol Miller, Heather Murdoch, Christina Tilstone and Colin Smith, all of the University of Birmingham; Neil Hall, Senior Educational Psychologist, Birmingham LEA and Ian Glenn, Headteacher, Victoria School for the Physically Handicapped, Birmingham