Special Educational Needs

• Gibson, K et al, (2025) Pathways to Inclusion: Exploring Higher Education Opportunities for People with Intellectual Disabilities

  Inclusive higher education for students with intellectual disabilities has gained considerable momentum internationally over the past two decades as part […]

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• Beck, G. (2021) In Need of Review: Developing Sensory Provision in Northern Ireland’s Mainstream Primary Classrooms

  The impact of Sensory Processing Difficulties across a range of Special Educational Needs is well researched. More recently, the impact […]

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• McMurray, S. (2020) Learning to spell for children 5–8 years of age: The importance of an integrated approach to ensure the development of phonic, orthographic and morphemic knowledge at compatible levels

  This paper considers samples of independent writing highlighting the integral role of phonology, orthography and morphology in spelling development for […]

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• Purdy et al (2019), “Too Little, Too Late: The views of parents/carers on their child’s experiences of the Special Educational Needs (SEN) process in mainstream schools”

  This report of parents/carers’ views was commissioned by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) as part […]

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• Purdy, N. (2020) Examining the legacy of the Warnock Report in Northern Ireland: a Foucauldian genealogical approach

  Over 40 years after the publication of the Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children […]

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• McMurray, S. and McVeigh, C. (2014) The Case for Frequency Sensitivity in Orthographic Learning

  This paper positions the importance of frequency sensitivity in the development of orthographic knowledge throughout childhood and promotes learning to […]

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