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Teaching materials

Provision and practice

• Departmental Policies: Special Needs and Departmental Policies: Differentiation: A. Davies's free educational resources for school design and technology departments.
• Knappe Begriffsbestimmung der Arbeitslehre (mit deutlichem Schwerpunkt aus sonderpädagogischer Perspektive): G. H. Duismann's overview of design technology with particular emphasis on special educational needs.
• Design and Technology and Pupils with Special Educational Needs in Ordinary Schools: A guideline developed from a paper by David Williamson (Inspector for Art, Design and Technology, Haringey Educational Services) at the National Association of Advisers & Inspectors in Design and Technology Conference, April 1995.
• Structuring Design and Technology for pupils with learning difficulties: F. Pearson's paper offering "a set of ideas and considerations to allow design and technology to be taught effectively to pupils with special educational needs of a moderate nature."
• Special educational needs in Design and Technology: I. H. Thompson's report on his survey of design and technology teachers working with learners who have learning difficulties.
• A Bibliography of Design and Technology and Special Educational Needs: A thematic reading list of DT/SEN references maintained by David Wilson.
• Whole language and design and technology education, Patricia Hutchinson examines language issues in the teaching and learning of design and technology.
• Food Technology, Resistant Materials and Textiles: Additional Needs Net resources for learners of design and technology with special educational needs.
• Pupils with Special Educational Needs: British Nutrition Foundation resource.
• Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: Design and technology: National Curriculum website: Introduction, Responding to pupils' needs, opportunities and activities at key stage 1-3, performance descriptions.
• EEN in Design and Technology: Harris City Technology College strategies used by the design and technology subject area to support students with special educational needs.

Professional development

Special schools

Cognition and learning difficulties

• SEN Resources: More than 30 CDT Lesson Plans Written for Students Ranging in Ability from PMLD to Moderate learning difficulties: Lesson plans produced by Richard Murray at Abbey Hill School Technology College.

• ICT with Design Technology: Hand Steady: A unit for MLD students prepared by Allan C. Scott of Tollesby School in Middlesbrough.

• Design Technology Policy and Design Technology Assessment: Documents produced by Longmoor School and Residential Unit, which provide education for pupils with severe learning difficulties, aged 2 to 11.
• We Can Do Design & Technology: Projects for Severe Learning Difficulty Schools through Progression in Design and Technology: Document published by Adviser for Technology, Kent Advisory Service and designed to support teachers meet the individual needs of children with severe learning difficulties, by linking specific projects and planning techniques to enable access to the National Curriculum for Design and Technology.

Emotional, behavioural and social difficulties

Communication and interaction difficulties

Sensory and physical difficulties

• Design and Technology and Food and Fabric Technology - Use of ICT: Scottish Council for Educational Technology articles about teaching design and technology to the hearing impaired.

• Curriculum Close-Up 5: The DT (Food Technology and Resistant Materials) theme issue of the Royal National Institute for the Blind newsletter.

© 2003 David R. Wilson