Opportunities for teachers to undertake professional development to
work with pupils with language and communication difficulties have
increased recently in the UK. It is suggested that the competence to work
in this field is likely to be over and above what is generally expected of
teachers. This paper describes the process of agreeing what the outcomes
of these courses should be.
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