A new book aims to help teachers support autistic children in mainstream. Teaching Young Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders to Learn is written [...]

In line with Government policy, Local Education Authorities continued to announce proposals for developing inclusion. LEAs announcing special needs restructuring plans in 2001 [...]

A disabled teenager was left an answerphone message saying she could not start her university studies -- four days before the course was [...]

Schools need to pay more than lip service to plans aimed at integrating special needs children into mainstream, an autistic group has claimed. [...]

A new report by the disability charity Scope, That Kind of Life, reveals that disabled young people with high support needs are still [...]

The Taoiseach and Tanaiste were last night urged to meet representatives of people with disabilities in a bid to prepare a Disabilities Bill. [...]

The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act, passed in May 2001, provides new protection for disabled pupils against discrimination. From 2002 there will [...]

The Scottish Down's Syndrome Association is launching new guidelines for hospital staff on how to tell parents that their new baby has Down's [...]

A new report from the Department of Education and Employment, the National Union of Teachers and Scope shows that all pupils -- not [...]

In his new role as journalist for the Daily Telegraph, former Ofsted chief Chris Woodhead, has criticised the way the Labour Government is [...]

Proposals to bring the education system within a disability rights framework, announced in the Queen's speech, were warmly welcomed by the Disability Rights [...]

Consultations about integrating pupils with special needs into mainstream schools throughout North Tyneside have been met with a huge response. Such has been [...]

Special schools face a fall in numbers if proposals by North Tyneside Council to integrate children with special needs into mainstream schools go [...]