Description
Educating Children with Life-Limiting Conditions supports teachers who are working with children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions in mainstream schools by providing them with the core knowledge and skills that underpin effective practice within a whole-school and cross-agency approach.
Mainstream schools now include increasing numbers of children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, and this accessible book is written by a team comprised of both education and health professionals, helping to bridge the gap between different services.
Recognising the complexity of individual cases, the authors communicate key principles relating to the importance of communication, multi-professional understanding and working and proactive planning for meeting the needs of any child with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition that can be applied to a range of situations.
Reflective activities and practical resources are provided and are also available to download. This book will be of interest to teachers in mainstream schools, as well as teachers, SENCOs and senior leaders in all school settings, school nurses, children’s nurses and allied health professionals.
Table of Contents
Section 1- Policy and Practice
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Policy context
Chapter 3: The Teaching for Life Project
Section 2- Knowledge and Skills
Chapter 4: Understanding Life Limiting and Life Threatening Conditions
Chapter 5: Medical care
Chapter 6: Working Collaboratively
Chapter 7: Communication skills
Chapter 8: Supporting other children within the school
Chapter 9: Teaching and learning approaches
Chapter 10: Handling emotional and behavioural changes
Section 3- A Whole School Approach to Support
Chapter 11: Establishing a positive whole school culture
Chapter 12: Whole school policies
Section 4- Practical resources
Chapter 13: Directory of useful contacts and agencies
Chapter 14: Glossary of medical and educational terms explained
Chapter 15: Photocopiable Resources
Section 5- Conclusions
Chapter 16: Learning from each other- implications for practice
