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ghdhair100 · Wysłany: Wto 12:14, 15 Mar 2011 Temat postu: Educational psychologist_1331

Educational psychologist
They are trained to help children and young people (from birth to 19 years) who are experiencing difficulties in learning or behaviour. Educational psychologists are the professionals who are most likely to work closely with schools, and the special needs coordinator in particular. They may be based in a Child Guidance Centre and will be responsible for several schools – primary,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], secondary and special. The Educational Psychology Service has to ration numbers of visits to each school per year. In most local authorities the special needs coordinator needs to obtain written consent from the parent or carer before the child is seen by an educational psychologist, although if you have a general query and do not use the child’s full name you can discuss any pupil with them. Educational psychologists are concerned with children’s learning and development and their barriers to learning. They are involved in statutory assessment and early identification of learning difficulties and emotional and behavioural difficulties,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but their role can be far wider than this. Their duties will include: consultations with class teachers for advice about children in general terms discussion with the special needs coordinator about particular children who have already been referred to the Educational Psychology Service# observation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], assessment and reporting on children with learning or emotional and behavioural difficulties who have been referred to them attending annual reviews of statement meetings for children with statements of special educational needs providing INSET for staff on any aspect of their work meeting and advising the parents of children with special educational needs debriefing staff who have been in a difficult situation with children or parents (this may sometimes include counselling after a bereavement in the school) attending liaison meetings in school with other professionals eg. the school nurse or the educational welfare officer planning how to reintegrate a child who has been absent for a long time, for example due to ill-health or an accident drawing up learning programmes for children or groups of children with special educational needs of various kinds introducing circle of friends as a strategy to support a particular child.
The Court of Appeal pointed out that R and F's submission in the county court was of overt, conscious racism, and it was not prepared to find that there had been unconscious discrimination.The decisionThe Court of Appeal said that, unlike the ordinary civil claim where the judge decides, on the claimant's evidence only, whether the claimant has made out a case, in this case the judge had had the benefit of the whole of the evidence. Despite the school's failure to comply with the statutory requirements, the judge had been entitled to find on the basis of all the evidence that R and F had not proved racial discrimination.

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