PREPARING FUTURE PROFESSIONALS FOR FORMING COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES OF CHILDREN’S WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

Children with special educational needs.

Sir, It was good to see Dr Ni Brolchain's interesting study of children with special educational needs (February Journal, p.56). They form a small but important subgroup of a practice child population. I suspect these children and their families may well have higher consultation rates than a control group without special educational needs. I trained for general practice (including nine months i...

Preparing Professionals for Educational Partnerships: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Online educational counselling for students with special needs: building rapport

This paper reports the findings from a study that investigated the effects of providing online counselling for undergraduate students with long-term health problems. Issues associated with learning at a distance for such students include fatigue, manual dexterity, academic and social isolation, together with a need for better interactive communication with support agencies (Debenham, 1996a). Th...

A Needs-Driven Cognitive Architecture for Future 'Intelligent' Communicative Agents

Recent years have seen considerable progress in the deployment of ‘intelligent’ communicative agents such as Apple’s Siri, Google Now, Microsoft’s Cortana and Amazon’s Alexa. Such speech-enabled assistants are distinguished from the previous generation of voice-based systems in that they claim to offer access to services and information via conversational interaction. In reality, interaction ha...

Uses of Technology That Support Pupils with Special Educational Needs