CYP Now - Resources: Review - A challenge to conventional thinking

This book provides a framework for understanding and working with children with special educational needs (SEN). It challenges the view that theories of child development relate only to those children whose development follows normal lines, and encourages practitioners working with children with SEN to use these theories to reflect on their own understanding and practice.

The book discusses the work of key theorists and thinkers such as Vygotsky, Piaget, Freud, Erikson, Skinner and Bruner. It considers the educational implications of each theorist and then goes on to consider them in light of four different areas of development: communication and interaction; cognition and learning; behaviour and social development; sensory and physical development.

No one theory is given precedence, the reader is encouraged to consider the relevance of each, and some interesting links are made.

The authors place emphasis on the value of reciprocal relationships, developing self-esteem and meaningful relationships and the importance of shared contexts for learning. Throughout, we are encouraged to see how the pupil with SEN can develop the skills to "learn how to learn".

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