Researching Learning Difficulties: A Guide for Practitioners

Researching Learning Difficulties is is for researchers, teachers and other professionals working with children and young people with learning difficulties. It will enable them to: access research in learning difficulties, drawing on other disciplines; understand different types of research methodology and their strengths and limitations; examine how researchers must consider the constraints on methodology because of the characteristics of the field; understand the particular issues of small-scale research; The authors recognize that there are tensions, especially the difficulty of validating research on small varied populations in a wide range of schools and settings. The book will help readers to critically evaluate the implications for their own practice. It will also help researchers to recognize the particular difficulties of carrying out small- scale research.