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Sensory and physical difficulties

Teaching materials

Provision and practice

• Teaching and Training 25: Padded Budgies: Julie Lankester's Farmington Institute report about Experiential and Enactive Teaching, and Special Educational Needs in RE.
• Celebrating Diversity and the Gift of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: Mary Jane Owens asks: "How could I possibly include children with disabilities in my religious education class? Some of them don't even know how to read."
• Religious education for pupils with special educational needs: Surrey County Council's website dedicated to RE for those with SEN.
• Teaching and Training 94: Affirming RE: Elizabeth Weightman's Farmington Institute report about RE for pupils with SEN.
• A bibliography of religious education and special educational needs: A list of references maintained by David Wilson.
• Teaching and Training 87: The drawing out, not the pumping in: Jane Brooke's Farmington Institute report about effective learning in RE to include all pupils.
• Inclusion in Religious Education: Providing effective learning opportunities for all pupils in Religious Education: Isle of Wight Council document about providing effective learning opportunities for all pupils in Religious Education.
• Teaching and Training 3: Tell me about it: Dalwyn Attwell's Farmington Institute report describing how non-written teaching activities within RE affect the attainment of children with special educational needs.
• Religious Education: Additional Needs Net website dedicated to RE for pupils with SEN.
• Teaching and Training 93: Multi-sensory religious education: Lisa Brown's Farmington Institute report about the value of multisensory approaches in RE for SEN pupils.
• Teaching and Training 31: Faith in a Box: Susan Murrell's Farmington Institute report about the study of Religious Education through topics for children with SLD, PMLD and Autism.
• Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: Religious Education: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority document to inform teachers of RE to pupils with SEN.
• Teaching and Training 112: Appraising R.E. resources for primary children with special needs (plus production of more): Ruth Toothill's The Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 85: RE and the reluctant reader: Chris Prokaza's Farmington Institute paper about differentiating a scheme of work for pupils with visual perceptual distortions, learning difficulties and reluctant readers in RE.
• Teaching and Training 107: Tell the story simply: Sandy Cave's Farmington Institute paper about presenting religious stories to Key Stage 1 children with Special Educational Needs.
• Teaching and Training 6: A Scheme of Work for RE in the Early Years for Children with Special Needs: Lynn Drinkwater's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 15: Teaching Religious Studies GCSE to Pupils with Special Educational Needs in a Mixed Ability Context: Stephen Morris's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 14: Special Needs and RE at Key Stage Four: Anne Patrick's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 102: Children in the middle: Alexandra Williams's Farmington Institute paper about making teaching and resources more accessible for SEN students in an inclusive school at KS4.

Professional development

Special schools

• Religionsunterricht an Sonderschulen: a contribution by the diocese of Speyer to the teaching of RE in special schools.
• Teaching and Training 103: Symbols and symbolism in RE in a secondary special school: Norma Hyde's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 30: Speak from the Heart: Exploring and Responding to RE in the Special School: Anne Krisman's Farmington Institute paper.

Cognition and learning difficulties

• Forum Religionspädagogik & Geistigbehindertenpädagogik: Stephan Anderssohn's forum dedicated to the teaching of religious education to those with learning difficulties.
• Schulentwicklung - Religion - Religionsunterricht in der Schule für Geistigbehinderte: Siegfried Klöpfer's article about the teaching of religious education in schools for those with cognitive impairments.
• Teaching and Training 11: RME Worksheets/Ideas for Secondary Pupils with Moderate-Severe Learning Difficulties: Margaret Marks's Farmington Institute paper.

• Teaching and Training 37: Magic Moments: Margaret Dean's Farmington Institute paper about Finding "ways in" to a new County Agreed Syllabus for pupils with moderate learning difficulties.
• Teaching and Training 98: Teaching religious and moral education and enhancing the development of the self-esteem of pupils with moderate learning difficulties: Jim McLaughlin's Farmington Institute paper.

• Teaching and Training 90: The Use of Stories in Religious Education to Encourage Language in Primary-Aged Children with Severe Learning Difficulties: Denise Brogden's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 80: To Promote and Enhance the Teaching and Learning of RE for Pupils with Severe Learning Difficulties And Profound Multiple Learning Difficulties: Jane Davenport's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 29: A Secondary RE Curriculum for Pupils with SLD and PMLD, Jane Dowell's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 5: Assemblies brought alive, Helen Dunman's Farmington Institute paper about assemblies for pupils with SLD/PMLD.
• Teaching and Training 26: Making Multi-sensory Story Boxes for use with SLD and PMLD Students: Sandy Fairhurst's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 106: Developing religious multi-sensory story sacks and sensory boxes: Elizabeth Ferris's Farmington Institute paper about RE for children and students with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities.
• Teaching and Training 126: Adapting an RE Syllabus for Pupils with Severe and Profound learning Difficulties: June Freeman's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 101: Schemes of work for key stage 1 and 2 pupils with severe learning difficulties: Mandy Green's Farmington Institute paper.
• Teaching and Training 89: RE story boxes in a primary special school: Teresa Lehane's Farmington Institute paper about increasing R.E. access and enjoyment through story boxes for children with severe learning difficulties.
• RE Policy and RE Assessment at Longmoor School for pupils with SLD.

Emotional, behavioural and social difficulties

Communication and interaction difficulties

• Teaching and Training 100: Sing a new song: Sue Eaton's Farmington Institute paper about the development of a religious education curriculum for children with autistic spectrum disorders.
• Teaching and Training 111: Teaching RE to pupils with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD): Bridget Walton's Farmington Institute paper.

• Teaching and Training 136: The Assessment of RE at KS1 for children with global or specific speech and/or language difficulties: Tracey Heys's Farmington Institute paper.

Sensory and physical difficulties

• Sehbehinderte und "gesunde Kinder" erleben gemeinsam Freude und Begeisterung: Elisabeth Schwarz's article in Religionsunterricht/Praxis about RE for visually impaired and sighted children.

© 2003 David R. Wilson