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This essential guide for working with PDA pupils outlines effective and practical ways that teachers and school staff can support these pupils, by endorsing a child-led approach to learning and assessment.

Beginning with an introduction to PDA and how it can affect the education experience, it is then followed by thoughtful, useful strategies school staff can implement to build a collaborative relationship with pupils and help them to thrive in the school environment. The activities presented aim to make children more comfortable and at ease, and therefore better able to learn. It covers key issues for children with PDA, such as sensory issues, preferred language and phrasing of demands, social skills, and recognising distressed behaviour. The chapter summaries and simple activities listed throughout make this a useful tool for busy teaching staff working with PDA pupils.

ISBN-13: 9781787754874

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Publication Date: 07-21-2021

Pages: 176

Product Dimensions: 5.91(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.55(d)

Clare Truman has been a special needs teacher for eleven years, and specialised in autism for eight. She is currently completing a PhD at the Centre for Research in Autism and Education at UCL London. In January 2017, she established Spectrum Space Community Interest Company, a social enterprise and alternative education provision which specialised in supporting children with a PDA profile.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Preface 11

1 PDA - What Do We Know So Far? 15

2 Prioritizing Demands 23

3 Presenting Demands 37

4 Designing and Implementing a Child-Led Curriculum 49

5 Invitations to Learn 61

6 Developing Social Understanding 71

7 Adapting Traditional Autism Strategies 83

8 Managing Distressed Behaviour 93

9 Hidden Forms of Distressed Behaviour 109

10 Managing the Needs of the PDA Student in a Class of Thirty 119

11 Eating, Drinking, Washing 127

12 Paperwork 135

13 What I Learnt from Spectrum Space 149

Afterword 157

Further Advice and Further Reading 161

References 163

Index 167