Research has shown that children with emotional and behavioural difficul-ties are
likely to have additional special needs including undetected communication problems.
This study considers the background factors associated with complex emotional,
learning, and language difficulties in one individual. It also set out to
investigate the effectiveness of an integrated approach, where professionals worked
together to identify this student’s special needs, to help him learn and
in particular, to develop his communication skills. While the results of a single
case study must be treated with caution, this study suggests that integrated work
had a positive effect on this student’s ability to interact and to learn.
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