Supporting a Child with Learning Disabilities and Challenging
Behaviour Sharon Powell and Madelyn Green, ISBN 1904082882, £5
STAR RATING: 3/5 As a visual learner, my mind works and
remembers information by bullet points. So this concise booklet,
which uses bullet points and sub-headings to aid quick access,
is a real find, writes Lyn Reeve. However, I found the
illustrations geeky and patronising: fat boy reading book and a
peculiar Japanese girl crying by a radio were particularly
irritating. There is a fine line between cartoon characters
highlighting and belittling important issues. There is nothing
earthshatteringly new about the booklet but I liked the content
and it is always worth revisiting issues. Everyone should read
the section “Be a good role model yourself ”. In my role as
mentor to BEd students I could easily use this as a tool for
training – for example, taking specific points and relating them
to children in the class. Behaviour management is one of the
hardest skills to quantify and share but