Curricula for Teaching Children and Young People with Severe or Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties: Practical strategies for educational professionals

Curricula for Teaching Children and Young People with Severe or Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties offers a range of compelling arguments for a distinct and separate pedagogical approach to the learning needs of the most educationally challenging pupils. This book, written in accessible, common sense and non-academic language, provides an easy-to-follow alternative curriculum specifically designed to enhance and enrich the learning of children with profound and multiple learning difficulties.

Chapter by chapter, guidelines and support are offered in key curriculum areas, some of which include:

• Cognition
• Language, Literacy and Communication
• Mathematical
• Physical
• Sensory
• Creative
• Care
• Play
• Problem solving.

This highly practical resource is essential reading for any educational professional, parents, school governors, teachers, teaching assistants, therapists and indeed anyone involved with maximising the educational opportunities of those with profound learning difficulties.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Setting the Scene
2. Dilemmas of Difference
3. Assessment and Pupil Progress
4. Personalised Learning and Engagement
5. A Cognition Curriculum for pupils and students with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
6. A Communication Curriculum for pupils and students with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
7. A Physical Curriculum for pupils and students with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
8. A Care Curriculum for pupils and students with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
9. A Sensory Curriculum for pupils and students with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
10. A Language, Literacy and Communication Curriculum for pupils and students with Severe Learning Difficulties
11. A Mathematical Thinking Curriculum for pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties
12. A Creative Arts Curriculum for pupils with SLD and PMLD
13. A Problem Solving and Thinking Curriculum for pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties
14. A Play Curriculum for pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties
15. A Citizenship Curriculum for pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties and Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties