Separating, Losing and Excluding Children

Tom Billington currently teaches in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Sheffield and also works as an LEA psychologist in the Merseyside region. He has been a teacher and psychologist for over twenty years, working in schools, colleges and universities.

'This is a fascinating book, which I would recommend to those working with children who are different, but also to a wider audience who have an interest in discourses around disability and education.' - British Journal of Special Education'This is a book born out of the author's work as an educational psychologist, full of stimulating narratives of personal experiences blended with theoretical analyses and which manages to prove accessible, academically rigorous and exceptionally engaging.' - British Journal of Educational Psychology'...this book has the potential to spark the sort of reflection and debate that would provide a qualitatively different reappraisal of our role.' - Educational Psychology in Practice

• Chapter 1 Working with Difference; Chapter 2 Gary—A Formal Assessment; Chapter 3 Pathologizing Children; Chapter 4 Speaking of Mary; Chapter 5 Authority and the Written Word; Chapter 6 Memory, History and the Division of Labour; Chapter 7 Alienation or Pathology?; Chapter 8 Tales from the Autistic Spectrum; Chapter 9 Conclusion;