Learners with Special Needs in Aotearoa New Zealand, 3rd Edition

This carefully updated new edition of a core New Zealand text on disability and education continues to emphasise inclusive, learner-centred, needs-based education. The book provides an ideal resource for courses in special education and for teachers in schools. The book emphasises New Zealand research and perspectives, alongside relevant and comprehensive international material. Case studies are incorporated to provide examples for the theoretical constructs.

Deborah Fraser is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Development and Counselling at the University of Waikato. Her particular research interests in the area of special needs include collaboration with parents and children with cancer. She has published internationally in the fields of disability and giftedness and is currently joint editor of the Waikato Journal of Education. Roger Moltzen is currently Chair of the Department of Human Development and Counselling and Director of Special Education Programmes at the University of Waikato. His teaching and research interests are inclusive education, intelligence, creativity and the development of talent. In 2001 he chaired the Ministerial Working Party on Gifted Education in New Zealand. Roger is joint editor of APEX: The New Zealand Journal of Gifted Education. Ken Ryba is an Associate Professor in the College of Education at Massey University, Albany Campus. Ken has just had a book published on ICT for adults with Down syndrome published by the Down Syndrome Educational Trust. His other research interests include graduate training in educational psychology, cognitive assessment, functional analysis of behaviour, mental imagery training, online learning and special education policies and systems.

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