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Provision and practice

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Special schools

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Emotional, behavioural and social difficulties

Communication and interaction difficulties

Sensory and physical difficulties

Teaching materials

Provision and practice

• Special Education History and Social Science: History and Geography target-setting for the individual educational plans of learners with special educational needs.
• Steve Krasner, Ginna Smyth and Barbara Wallach's bibliography for the Special Education Resource Center at the Connecticut State Department of Education focuses on social studies instruction for those with special educational needs and includes many history references.
• A bibliography of history and special educational needs: a thematic reading list of History/SEN references maintained by David Wilson.
• Additional Needs Net list of special needs history resources.
• Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning disabilities: History: National Curriculum document: Introduction, Responding to pupils’ needs, opportunities and activities at key stage 1-3, performance descriptions.
• Pupils record learning about the Great Fire of London, PowerPoint templates to create slide shows, Clicker 4 to support recording in History and Planning for the History unit on the Great Fire: Resources on using ICT to promote inclusion by Cath Harper of Oak Tree Primary School, Ashford in Kent.
• Teaching History in Inclusive Classrooms: Technology-Based Practices and Tools: article by C. M. Okolo, R. P. Ferretti and C. D. MacArthur. in Technology in Action.

Professional development

Special schools

• Geschichtsunterricht in der Hilfsschule 1898 —Geschichtliches Lernen heute: Entwicklungen - Standort – Perspektiven: Conference paper by D. Schmetz on the development of history teaching in special schools since the end of the nineteenth century.

Cognition and learning difficulties

• Kingsbury School's Foundation Subject Policy: History.
• History Policy, History Assessment and History Units of Work at Longmoor School for pupils with SLD.
• History - Teaching and Learning and Curriculum Policy - History at Priory Woods School for pupils with SLD.

Emotional, behavioural and social difficulties

Communication and interaction difficulties

Sensory and physical difficulties

• Curriculum Clipboard Close-Up Issue 4: The Geography and History theme issue of the Royal National Institute for the Blind newsletter.

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