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The Case for Specialist Training for Learning Support Assistants Employed in Schools for Children with Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
Author(s) -
Aird Richard
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9604.00158
Subject(s) - learning disability , training (meteorology) , medical education , psychology , service (business) , mathematics education , pedagogy , medicine , developmental psychology , physics , economy , meteorology , economics
In this article, which complements the previous one on the attitudes of pre‐service teachers to pupils with disabilities, Richard Aird argues the case for specialist training for learning support assistants (LSAs) working with students with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties. The author goes on to describe the course developed at University College Worcester to meet the needs of LSAs working with such students.