Special and Inclusive Education

Contents: John Pringle/Anne McGough: School Completion and Resilience: Reflections on a Case Study from the Perspective of Inclusion - Siobhán Kelly/Ann Marie Farrel: Making the Transition: Exploring Pupils' and Parents' Experiences of the Move from a Special Class in Primary School to Post-Primary Schooling - Pauline Kerins/Thérèse Day: Factors Influencing the Transfer of Pupils with Mild General Learning Disabilities from Mainstream Schools to Special Schools for Pupils with Mild General Learning Disabilities - Margaret O'Donnell: Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs for Including Pupils with Special Educational Needs in Irish Mainstream Primary Schools - Aisling Cleary/Geraldine Haye: An Exploration of Irish Teachers' Perceptions of the Inclusion of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders in Mainstream Primary Schools - Fionnuala Drudy/Margaret O'Donnel: Post-Primary Inclusive Education for Students with Moderate General Learning Disabilities: Perspectives of Teachers and Support Personnel - Fiona Cronin/Zita Lysagh: Challenges Met When Introducing Assessment for Learning to Students with Dyslexia: A Teacher's Perspective - Niamh Ní Fhoighil/Joseph Travers: The Inclusion of Irish-Medium Students with Special Educational Needs - Mairéad Ní Chiaruáin/Joseph Travers: How Children with Dyslexia Experience Literacy in Irish and English in a Gaelscoi - Deirdre Murphy/Joseph Travers: Including Young Bilingual Learners in the Assessment Process: A Study of Appropriate Early Literacy Assessments Utilising Both Languages of Children in a Gaelscoi - Colman Motherway: Responding to Diversity: Where Do Students in Special Schools Feel Included? - Sarah Feeney/Maeve Dupont: The School Code of Behaviour: Exploring and Including the Perspective of the Student with Special Educational Needs - Eileen Duffy/Jean Ware: Intensive Interaction: An Intervention to Reach the Child - Anne McGough: Language Teaching and Learning in Inclusive Early Years Classrooms - Zita Lysagh: Towards Inclusive

Thérèse Day is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Masters in Special Educational Needs in the Special Education Department, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin. She is a former primary school teacher in both mainstream and special schools. She has published in the areas of special and inclusive education in relation to literacy, learning support, the role of special schools and collaborative practice in mainstream schools.
Joseph Travers is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Special Education Department, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin. He is a former primary school teacher in both mainstream and resource settings. He has published in the areas of policy and practice in special education, learning support for mathematics, inclusion, leadership and early intervention.