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Backlash Let's Stop ‘Statementing’ Children
Author(s) -
Smith Colin J.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8578.1985.tb00004.x
Subject(s) - backlash , special education , damages , vocabulary , root (linguistics) , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics education , political science , psychology , law , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence
‘Statementing’ is an ugly, clumsy and depersonalising word, which has become established in the vocabulary of special education. It is not too late to root it out, before it permanently damages the more flexible approach to the assessment of special educational needs for which the 1981 Education Act provides an opportunity, writes Colin J. Smith, lecturer in education, Department of Special Education, Birmingham University.