The Assessment of special educational needs : international perspective / edited by Tony Cline

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Empowering children and parents during the assessment process -- Images of deaf children as learners: the influence of adults' perceptions on assessment and intervention -- Pupil involvement in assessment -- Towards more effective decision making in assessment: pathway meeting the needs of all pupils -- Assessing needs in the planning of home-based learning services -- Part 2. Assessment in the service of integration and mainstreaming -- A second change to learn literacy: by different routes to common outcomes (the reading recovery programme) -- Enabling schools for all: assessment in the service of systemic reform -- The challenge of special educational needs: an approach to identification and assessment of individuals with cerebral palsy in a community setting -- Growth points in the improvement of practice -- Assessment of special educational needs: meeting reasonable expectations? -- Looking with different eyes, listening with different ears: reading evaluation from a holistic perspective -- Curriculum-based assessment: broadening the base -- Dynamic assessment: pitfalls and prospects -- Minimizing the inappropriate referral and placement of ethnic minority students in special education.

In this comprehensive survey, 12 international contributors examine recent developments in the assessment of special needs education across five continents. While taking account of the diversity between countries, they also consider universal themes.