The Senco Handbook Book

	Acknowledgements	4
	Foreword	5
	How to use this book	6
1	Decisions and Dilemmas in SEN: Legislative and Historical Legacies	8
2	Roles and Responsibilities for SEN within a Whole-school Policy	15
3	Identification and Intervention: the Individual Education Plan	23
4	The Curriculum: Whatever Happened to Differentiation?	35
5	The Curriculum: Key Issues for Key Stages	47
6	Managing Effective Support	55
7	Multi-professional Networks	64
8	Paperwork and Procedures: the Co-ordinating Role	78
9	Supporting Others: the Consultancy Role	88
10	The Role of the SENCO: Working within a Whole-school Approach	99
	Activity Pack: 1. Roles and Responsibilities: exercise	104
	Activity Pack: 2. Audit of Whole-school Policy	106
	Activity Pack: 3. Lesson Planning for Differentiation	109
	Activity Pack: 4. Room Management: exercise	112
	Activity Pack: 5. Information Flow for IEPs: exercise	116
	Activity Pack: 6. Reviewing Parental Policy	118
	Source Lists: 1. Assessment: tools and resources for teaching	120
	Source Lists: 2. Further reading: disabilities, difficulties, policy, training	121
	Source Lists: 3. Addresses of Voluntary Organisations	123
App. 1	Categories of disabilities used by LEAs from 1959	126
App. 2a	Governors' Responsibilities (from the Code of Practice)	126
App. 2b	Schedule 1: Reg 2 (1) Whole-school Policy Information	127
App. 3a	Guidance notes on Code of Practice forms	128
App. 3b	Bilingual Learners (notes)	131
App. 4a	Instrumental Enrichment (notes)	132
App. 4b	Bloom's Taxonomy (notes)	133
App. 8a	Appendices to Statements	134
App. 8b	The SEN Management Form	134
App. 9a	Observation (notes)	136
App. 9b	Questionnaire form	138
App. 9c	Parental responsibilities (from Children Act)	138
	Bibliography	139
	Index	143