1st Edition

Special Teaching in Higher Education Successful Strategies for Access and Inclusion

By Stuart Powell Copyright 2003

    Covering the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA), this book addresses the learning needs of impaired and disabled students. It suggests effective responses for those designing and delivering the curriculum and discusses flexible teaching strategies.
    An essential purchase for any education professionals wanting to implement best practice when catering for those with particular needs - whether lecturers, course developers, course leaders or learning and teaching interest groups.

    Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Special teaching in higher education, Stuart Powell; Part 2 The context for change; Chapter 2 From exclusion to inclusion: some lessons from abroad, Jeremy Cooper; Chapter 3 Communications and information technology (C&IT) for disabled students, Martyn Cooper; Part 3 Visual and auditory impairments: physical disability; Chapter 4 Supporting deaf students in higher education, Joy Jarvis, Pamela Knight; Chapter 5 Students with visual impairment, Archie W N Roy; Chapter 6 Able student, disabled person: access to courses in higher education by students with physical disabilities, Alan V Jones, Christopher Hopkins; Chapter 7 Issues for pedagogy (1), Stuart Powell; Part 4 Specific learning issues; Chapter 8 Students with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties, Stella Cottrell; Chapter 9 Overseas learners of English in higher education, Tim Parke; Chapter 10 Students with autism and Asperger's syndrome, Tim Luckett, Stuart Powell; Chapter 11 Issues for pedagogy (2), Stuart Powell; Part 5 Mental health issues; Chapter 12 Students with schizophrenia in higher education, James Wade; Chapter 13 Psychiatrically vulnerable students: stress, emotional disturbance, Mary Davies, Caralinda Jefferies; Chapter 14 Issues for pedagogy (3), Stuart Powell;

    Biography

    Stuart Powell