The publication in the United Kingdom in 1978 of the Warnock Report (Department of Education and Science, 1978) provided a landmark in the development of both resources for and conceptualization of children with special educational needs. Not only did it provide the basis for legislation in the form of the 1981 Education Act, but it also altered the way in which the issue of special education was viewed. For present purposes, the major aspect was the assertion that about one in six children would have special educational needs at any one time, and about one in five sometime during their school lives.
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