CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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JOHN GREEN recommends a useful how-to guide for teaching children with special needs, aimed at those working in education
SOLIDARITY: Parents, activists and special needs assistants protest outside the Department of Education in Dublin, to call for enough school places to be provided for children with additional needs to meet the demand, as many have been left without a place ahead of the coming academic year, August 23, 2024.
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
The SEN handbook – how to do SEN the right way
Greg Higman, Self published, £12.99
GREG HIGMAN has been a teacher with a great deal of experience in teaching children with Special Educational Needs and in advising others.
His book is a how-to guide in approaching this complex subject. It is, however, aimed at those working in education rather than the general public.
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