Nasen Awards 2009 winners
Nasen Awards 2009
Celebrating Inclusive Practice
Nasen, the UK’s leading professional association embracing all special and additional educational needs and disabilities, is proud to announce the winners of the nasen Awards 2009.
Now in its seventeenth year, the nasen Awards represent excellence and best practice in books, games and DVDs in the field for special educational needs. The awards celebrate inclusive practice and this year an overwhelming array of high quality submissions was received. The awards were presented to the winners by Anne Fine, renowned author and former Children’s Laureate.
And the winners are:
The Special Educational Needs Academic Book
Multiprofessional Communication-Making systems work for children
Georgina Glenny and Caroline Roaf (Open University Press)
The Inclusive Children’s Book
Running On The Cracks
Julia Donaldson (Egmont)
Book to Support Teaching and Learning - The Educational Practitioner’s Book
Education Support Pack for Further Education
UK Education Consortium for pupils with Down syndrome
(Down’s syndrome Association)
Book to Support Teaching and Learning – Pupil Book
A Brief Guide to Successful Learning or I Wish I’d Known This Years Ago
Rebecca Thomas, edited by Alex Griffiths and Betsy Langford
(The Educational Guidance Service)
Book to Promote Professional Development
A Beginning Teacher’s Guide to Special Educational Needs
Janice Wearmouth (Open University Press)
Inclusive Primary Classroom Resource
Story Shaping Set
Julia Damassa and Meg Jones (Yellow Door)
In addition to the prize of £500 to the author the winning publishers also received the nasen Inclusion Awards logo, a hallmark of excellence in SEN resources, to use with their winning product.
Georgina Glenny, the joint winner of the Special Educational Needs Academic Book, commented: “In our studies we saw great examples of successful practice, and hope that in winning this prize we will ensure many more people get to hear about it.”
Lorraine Petersen, CEO of nasen, said: “The submissions to our 17th awards were exceptional; inspiring, engaging and truly inclusive. Each year we find that there are more and more stimulating books and resources to help the most vulnerable children in our education system, and to support those who teach them – this is something that nasen are proud to recognise.”
nasen Awards 2009
Celebrating Inclusive Practice
