Promoting social inclusion of pupils with visual impairment in mainstream schools in Scotland

Marianna Buultjens & Joan Stead

with Mary Dallas

A project funded by Scottish Executive Education Department, Special Educational

Needs Innovation Grants Programme (April 2001 - March 2002)

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Glossary
• Executive summary
• Questionnaire
• Discussion
• Recommendations
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Interviews with pupils
• Chapter 3 Interviews with parents
• Chapter 4 What do schools do to support pupils?
• Chapter 5 What do councils do to support social inclusion?
• Chapter 6 Social skills training: examples from the Netherlands and Scotland
• Chapter 7 Discussion and recommendations
• References
• Appendix I Overview of pupils
• Appendix II Questionnaire
• Appendix III Goldstein method
• Appendix IV Draft guidelines for practitioners
• Appendix V Bibliography and resources