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Understanding educational support
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Understanding Educational Support Warnock Report Two reports written in the late 70's challenged the concept of remedial education and with it the 'Child-Deficit Model'. The first of these was the report of the Warnock Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People in May 1978 (DES, 1978). It is considered by many as a seminal report in the area of special needs education replacing the former statutory categories of handicap with the concept of special educational needs. The other report heralding a shift in thinking about special educational needs was the HMI Report on Pupils with Learning Difficulties (HMSO, 1978). Special educational needs as defined in the Warnock Report encompassed a wider concept than previously which only included handicapped children to also include children with emotional and behavioural disorders. The underlying thinking of this new term was that children may suffer from multiple disabilities, however, it is not the...
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