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A Survey of Parents' Views
Author(s) -
Dawson Ron,
Kierney Joyce
Publication year - 1988
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.1467-8578.1988.tb00736.x
Subject(s) - special educational needs , principal (computer security) , special education , perception , psychology , special needs , learning disability , mathematics education , developmental psychology , pedagogy , medical education , medicine , psychiatry , neuroscience , computer science , operating system
This survey of parental perceptions of special schooling for pupils with moderate learning difficulties is, as the authors recognise, a modest one which includes methodological flaws and question bias. Nevertheless, given the relative lack of data in this area, the findings deserve to be more widely known. In addition to suggesting a strong consensus of parental support for some special schools the article indicates the need for LEAs to involve and consult both parents and teachers in any proposed programme of special school closures. Ron Dawson is a principal lecturer in special educational needs at King Alfred's College, Winchester, and Joyce Kierney is deputy head of a school for children with moderate learning difficulties in Staffordshire.