title: Collaborative working with specific speech & language disorder in mainstream education.
abstract: Children with specific speech and language disorders are part of a special needs population whose educational and therapeutic needs have been provided for in a variety of settings over the last fifty years. Changes have been implemented in response to a range of legislation. This has also had implications for the delivery and type of provision of the children's education and therapy. The National Health Service and local education authorities (LEAs) have had to respond to legislation and continue to provide for the full range of specific speech and language disorders. This paper will outline how therapeutic input has had to adapt to the changing educational context. Changes in delivery have necessitated a redefinement of roles and adjustments in collaborative working.
authors.affiliation: Speech and Language Unit, Overfields Primary School, Ormesby, Middlesbrough.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Greenwell
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Heggarty
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Woolard
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003479:Curriculum; D004519:Education, Special / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008282:Mainstreaming, Education; D010348:Patient Care Team; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000628:therapy*