Warnock (1978)

Notes on the text
Preliminary pages Membership, Contents, Introduction
Chapter 1 General approach
Chapter 2 Historical background
Chapter 3 Scope of special education
Chapter 4 Discovery, assessment and recording
Chapter 5 Children under five
Chapter 6 Schoolchildren with special needs: introduction
Chapter 7 Special education in ordinary schools
Chapter 8 Special education in special schools
Chapter 9 Parents as partners
Chapter 10 Transition from school to adult life
Chapter 11 Some curricular considerations
Chapter 12 Teacher education and training
Chapter 13 Advice and support in special education
Chapter 14 Other education service staff
Chapter 15 Health service and social services
Chapter 16 Relations between professionals, confidentiality and coordination of services
Chapter 17 Voluntary organisations
Chapter 18 Research and development
Chapter 19 Priorities and resources
Summary of recommendations

Appendices

Appendix 1 List of contributors
Appendix 2 Categories of handicapped pupils
Appendix 3 Possible grid as basis for statistical returns
Appendix 4 Organisation of health service
Appendix 5 Research project on services for parents of under 5s
Appendix 6 Research project on pre-school education
Appendix 7 Research project on employment experiences of handicapped school leavers
Appendix 8 Survey of teachers' views on special education

Index

Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the education of handicapped children and young people

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1978
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

ISBN 0 10 172120 X

Appendix 5 Research project on services for parents of handicapped children under five
[page 388]

1. The research project on services for parents of children under five, commissioned by the Department of Education and Science at our request, was carried out under the co-direction of Professor M Chazan and Dr AF Laing of the University College of Swansea. Dr M Shackleton-Bailey was appointed as senior research officer and other research officers were Mrs GE Holmes, Miss GE Jones, Mrs S Threlfall and Dr JA Ward. The project began on 1 December 1975 and final reports were produced in December 1976.

2. The main aims of the project were:

(i) to obtain from a sample of parents factual information and personal opinions about the services they were receiving or would have liked to receive; and

(ii) to obtain from administrators, organisers and other professional workers concerned detailed information on the services being provided, their assessment of these services and future planning.

4. The sample of parents in each area was selected to include those with handicapped children in three age groups - 0-24 months, 24-36 months and 36-60 months - and, within each age group, with different types of handicap. The children were identified through handicap registers, advisory teachers, nursery head teachers and voluntary organisations. Care was taken to ensure that, so far as possible, different types of socio-economic background were represented in the sample.

5. References to, and illustrations from, the survey are to be included in an occasional publication planned by Professor Chazan and Dr Laing on 'Young handicapped children'.