The SERC Report: A Basis for Change
Keywords:
SERC Report, Change, Improvement, Special Education Review Committee, Provision, Policies, Legislation, Rights, Responsibilites, Resources, Roles, Special Education, Mainstream Education, PathwayAbstract
The concluding article in our series of commentaries on the Report of the Special Education Review Committee is written by two of the signatories to that Report. It is argued that in identifying the strengths and deficiencies of current provision, the SERC Report has laid the foundations for effective legislative change in the areas of rights, responsibilities and resources. The role of creative linkages between special and ordinary schools is regarded as an important pathway in this process.
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