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A Unique Child: Learning Disability - Parents hold the key
Nursery World,
23 January 2008
The way specialist teachers work with the families of children with learning disabilities is being changed by groundbreaking research, Karen Faux finds.
A research project in Cumbria has revealed that young children with severe learning difficulties can take bigger strides forward with a family-centred approach to early intervention. The three-year study, which was carried out by Lindsey Winterton for a PhD thesis, is influencing the way local early support teams work. Dr Winterton, a senior specialist advisory teacher for early years, says, 'My research revealed that early years specialist teachers were working with no specific training, no shared perceptions of...
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