Cover -- Special Needs in the Early Years -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Profiling early years and special needs: Celebrations of practice -- 2 Working together in different ways: Rodney House School -- 3 Integrating a child with Down's Syndrome into an Under-Fives Education Centre -- 4 Working with the young child who has special needs in the hospital setting -- 5 'Listen hear': Parents supporting parents with deaf children -- 6 Research and practice: An evaluation of an education improvement strategy to support teachers and parents of young children with special educational needs -- 7 Play partners: Parental involvement in a pre-school project for children with communication difficulties -- 8 What is normal? -- 9 Behaviour problems in the early years: The conceptualisation of behaviour problems and its relevance to management approaches -- 10 Early intervention for hearing-impaired children in families of ethnic minority origin -- 11 A contextual orientation to assessment -- 12 Sheffield Early Childhood Association: A snapshot of Sheffield Practice -- Index.

This book 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. They describe their work with young children who have different and distinctive special needs and disabilities.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.