Special needs in the early years: Snapshots of practice

This text celebrates good practice in the area of early years and special needs by bringing together authors who are either practitioners or researchers, from a range of different and diverse early years settings including nurseries and units providing special provision. 160 pages. 1. 'Profiling early years and special needs: celebrations of practice' - Sheila Wolfendale 2. 'Working together in different ways: Rodney House School' - Pam Stanier 3. 'Integrating a child with Down's Syndrome into an Under Fives Education Centre' - Moira Evans, Moira Keating, Elizabeth Knight 4. 'Working with the Young Child who has Special Needs in the Hospital Setting' - Pamela Barnes 5. 'Parents supporting parents with deaf children' - Joy Jarvis and Karen Riley 6. 'Research and Practice: an evaluation of an education improvement strategy to support teachers and parents of young children with special educational needs' - Jo Fieldhouse, Christine Pascal, Anthony Bertram, Sheila Gatiss 7. 'Play Partners: parental involvement in a pre-school project for children with Communication Difficulties' - Fleur Griffiths 8. 'What is normal?' - Helen Penn 9. 'Behaviour Problems in the Early Years: the conceptualisation of behaviour problems and its relevance to management approaches' - Theodora Papatheodorou 10. 'Early intervention for hearing- impaired children in families of ethnic minority origin' - Wendy Lynas and Susan Turner 11. 'A contextual orientation to assessment' - Andrew Lockett 12. 'Sheffield Early Childhood Association - a snapshot of Sheffield Practice' - Sylvia Walker and colleagues.