Special Needs in the Early Years: Snapshots of Practice Book

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	List of contributors
	Foreword
1	Profiling early years and special needs: Celebrations of practice	1
2	Working together in different ways: Rodney House School	15
3	Integrating a child with Down's Syndrome into an Under-Fives Education Centre	26
4	Working with the young child who has special needs in the hospital setting	36
5	'Listen hear': Parents supporting parents with deaf children	46
6	Research and practice: An evaluation of an education improvement strategy to support teachers and parents of young children with special educational needs	57
7	Play partners: Parental involvement in a pre-school project for children with communication difficulties	71
8	What is normal?	81
9	Behavior problems in the early years: The conceptualisation of behaviour problems and its relevance to management approaches	91
10	Early intervention for hearing-impaired children in families of ethnic minority origin	102
11	A contextual orientation to assessment	112
12	Sheffield Early Childhood Association: A snapshot of Sheffield Practice	123
	Index	138