Karen Watson – författare

This exciting text equips educators with practical, evidence-informed strategies to support neurodivergent learners. Packed with actionable advice that can be easily incorporated into your everyday teaching, the book shows how you can foster positive relationships, enhance teaching and optimise learning outcomes.Exploring the theory around autism, this new edition has been fully revised and includes two new chapters on adapting for demand avoidance and managing change, including transitioning from primary to secondary school. There is also expanded guidance on multi-agency working and improving relationships with families. Other topics covered include:procedural/semantic memory,executive functioning,expressive/receptive language,sensory integration,behaviour as communication andthe importance of emotional literacy, co-regulation and resilience.Good Autism Practice for Teachers isn't about prescribing one-size-fits-all solutions; it's about empowering educators to make informed decisions tailored to their unique class and students. Whether you're a seasoned teacher or a trainee, including SENCOs, this book is your key to transforming your classroom.

This exciting text equips educators with practical, evidence-informed strategies to support neurodivergent learners. Packed with actionable advice that can be easily incorporated into your everyday teaching, the book shows how you can foster positive relationships, enhance teaching and optimise learning outcomes.Exploring the theory around autism, this new edition has been fully revised and includes two new chapters on adapting for demand avoidance and managing change, including transitioning from primary to secondary school. There is also expanded guidance on multi-agency working and improving relationships with families. Other topics covered include:procedural/semantic memory,executive functioning,expressive/receptive language,sensory integration,behaviour as communication andthe importance of emotional literacy, co-regulation and resilience.Good Autism Practice for Teachers isn't about prescribing one-size-fits-all solutions; it's about empowering educators to make informed decisions tailored to their unique class and students. Whether you're a seasoned teacher or a trainee, including SENCOs, this book is your key to transforming your classroom.

Inside the ‘Inclusive’ Childhood Classroom: The Power of the ‘Normal’ offers a critique of current practices and alternative view of inclusion. The rich data created inside three classrooms will challenge those who work in the field, as the children and their performances, previously overlooked, are foreground. Although at times confronting, it is ultimately invaluable reading for classroom teachers, students, academics, and researchers as well as anyone who desires to deepen their understanding of inclusive processes. The inclusion of children with diagnosed special needs in mainstream early childhood classrooms is a policy and practice that has gained universal support in recent decades. Exploring ways to include the diagnosed child has been of interest to inclusive research. Adopting a poststructural perspective, this book interrupts taken for granted assumptions about inclusive processes in the classroom. Attention is drawn to the role played by the undiagnosed children, those positioned as already included. Researching among children, this ethnography interrogates the production of the classroom ‘normal’. As the children negotiate difference, the operations of the ‘normal’ are made visible in their words and actions. In their encounters with the diagnosed Other, they take up practices of tolerance and silence, effecting fear, separation, and a desire to cure. These performances echo practices, presumed abandoned, from centuries past. As a way forward this book urges a rethink of practice-as-usual, as these effects are problematic for inclusion and not sustainable. A greater scrutiny of the ‘normal’ is needed, as the power it exercises, impacts on all children and how they become subjects in the classroom.