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Dimensions of special needs: a non‐categorical approach to SEN
Author(s) -
Muncey Jim,
Palmer Charles
Publication year - 1995
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.1467-8578.1995.tb00919.x
Subject(s) - categorical variable , special educational needs , psychology , mathematics education , special education , service (business) , work (physics) , pedagogy , medical education , sociology , medicine , computer science , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering , economy , machine learning
Jim Muncey, Chief Education Adviser, and Charles Palmer, Senior Educational Psychologist (both of whom work for the City of Coventry Edcation Service) reconsider the concept of ‘Dimensions’ introduced by Fish (1989). It is suggested that an individual approach to meeting pupils' special educational needs requires a descriptive system which is neither crudely categorical on the one hand, nor completely individualised on the other.