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Researching Learning Difficulties is is for researchers, teachers and other professionals working with children and young people with learning difficulties. It will enable them to: access research in learning difficulties, drawing on other disciplines; understand different types of research methodology and their strengths and limitations; examine how researchers must consider the constraints on methodology because of the characteristics of the field; understand the particular issues of small-scale research; The authors recognize that there are tensions, especially the difficulty of validating research on small varied populations in a wide range of schools and settings. The book will help readers to critically evaluate the implications for their own practice. It will also help researchers to recognize the particular difficulties of carrying out small- scale research.

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'This book is highly recommended and endorsed. It celebrates the diversity of work that is currently undertaken in the field of learning difficulties with a concern to enable people working within different spheres of activity to share something of their work to contribute to the bigger picture. 'As part of an academic, school or staff development resource library this book will aid, stimulate and focus researchers at all levels to hone their selected methods, evaluate results and critically judge qualitative and quantitative data' - Special Children 'This timely book, written in a highly accessible way... provides a coherent basis for users as well as practitioners, of research involving children and young people with learning difficulties' - Ann Lewis, Professor of Special Education and Educational Psychology, University of Birmingham.

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Research Interests * Policy and provision for pupils with special educational needs * Policy, provision and practice for people with learning difficulties across the age span * Organization of inclusive and special schooling * Early mathematical development * Research methodologies and special populations Penny Lacey had a background in teaching children and young people with severe, profound and complex learning difficulties before she came to the School of Education in 1991.

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