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JOHN GREEN recommends a useful how-to guide for teaching children with special needs, aimed at those working in education
SOLIDARITY: Parents, activists and special needs assistants protest outside the Department of Education in Dublin, to call for enough school places to be provided for children with additional needs to meet the demand, as many have been left without a place ahead of the coming academic year, August 23, 2024.
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
The SEN handbook – how to do SEN the right way
Greg Higman, Self published, £12.99
GREG HIGMAN has been a teacher with a great deal of experience in teaching children with Special Educational Needs and in advising others.
His book is a how-to guide in approaching this complex subject. It is, however, aimed at those working in education rather than the general public.
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