Abstract
The Warnock Committee1 estimated that up to one in five children at some time during their school lives will need some form of special educational provision. The Education Act of 1981 (implemented in 1983) aims to help the needs of these children. Each child is individually assessed and provision for his/her needs sought. This contrasts with the previous method in which the child was first categorized and then placed in an educational unit which dealt with that category of handicap. However, no extra resources have been provided. It is difficult, also, to provide a child’s educational needs when the Act fails to define exactly what are the ‘special educational needs’.
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Pollak, M., Fry, J. (1986). Learning problems. In: Commonsense Paediatrics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6367-5_11
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