2002 - 03 Reports

The social and political imperative to promote inclusion, clearly poses challenges to those charged with the responsibility for addressing the educational needs of pupils with ASD. If such pupils are to derive long-term gain from their educational experiences, whether in mainstream or in specialist provision, there are implications for Local Authority policymaking, management of the schools, curriculum planning and delivery, and staff training.

The remit for this strand of the 2002-03 Professional Development Programme (PDP) was, Implementation of Currie: What should an appropriate CPD framework for educational psychologists look like and how might training in management skills be included?

In May 2003 five educational psychologists from across Scotland met in Pitlochry for the PDP Start-up Conference to address the topic Evaluating Inclusive Practice. The group being acutely aware of the vast amount of the literature and opinion that existed on the topic of inclusion spent the early part of the time available following some of the maxims on reporting by Rudyard Kipling in establishing the who, the what, the where, the when, the how and the why of the story to be told and the work to be scheduled.