Description: A language/communication difficulty is at the core of many types of special educational need: specific and general learning difficulties, autism, sensory impairments and specific developmental disorders. A language-based approach to teaching and therapy therefore provides a key to unlocking many children's difficulties with learning and social behavior in both mainstream and special schools. Underpinned by this ideology and based upon observations of practice and research this book covers issues surrounding language difficulties in educational contexts from pre-school to adolescence. It then presents a language-based approach to educating children with special needs, in mainstream and special schools. A final chapter addresses the use of IT in the education of children with language difficulties. Language Difficulties in an Educational Context has been written for practitioners, student practitioners and managers in education.

The author, Wendy Rinaldi, PhD (Special Educational Needs), has worked as a speech and language therapist in primary and secondary education since 1983, specializing in developmental language disorders, learning difficulties, autism and Asperger's syndrome and has written extensively in these fields. She currently works freelance in staff training, research and practice. There are additional chapters by Dr. James Law, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Human Sciences, City University, London, and Dr. Janet Larcher, Consultant in Micro-technology Aids.

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