Professor Jill Porter

Masters Level Supervision offered in these areas:

• Curriculum and pedagogy for children with special needs.
• Barriers and supports to participation in education and inclusive provision.
• Education of children with severe and profound learning difficulties.

PhD and EdD Level Supervision offered in these areas:

• Accessing the Learning Environment for Children and Young People with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities.
• Disability & Impact: Context and Culture in the Collection and Responses to Disability Data.
• Numerosity and Pupils with Complex Learning Difficulties.
• Development of counting and children with Down syndrome.
• Participatory research and mixed methods.

Current and Recent PhD Students:

• Louise Gallagher Sterritt: Dynamic Assessment of Oral Narrative Skills of Children with Specific Language Impairment (Prof. Doctorate in Dept of Health University of Bath)
• Tim Leighton: PT Inside the Black Box: a critical realist study of drug rehabilitation (University of Bath).
• Emma Seal Juggling Identities: Elite Female Athletes' Negotiation of Identities in Disability Sport Completed 2015, University of Bath.
• JinChang Huang The Language Environment of Children with Down syndrome in primary classrooms: case studies of the impact of speech rate. Completed 2013, University of Bath.
• Rachel Ravid: Taught Doctorate Student. Parents of Young High-Functioning ASD and Asperger Disorder Children Early-Years School Choice in Israel. Completed 2013, University of Bath.
• Michael O'Keefe The Rarely Heard Voice: Students with Moderate General Learning Disability Speak of their Experiences in Mainstream Schools. Completed 2009, Dublin City University.
• Colman Motherway Enabling Hearing and Giving Weight to Students' Views of Special Schooling in 21^st Century Ireland: Do 'Dilemmas of Difference' Apply ? Completed 2009, Dublin City University.
• H.R.Abd El Hamidi Counting and Egyptian Children with Down Syndrome. Completed 2006 University of Birmingham.
• R.E.Germain Type of Educational Provision Made for Young People with Learning Disabilities and Participation in Communities and Activities beyond the School. Completed 2006 University of Birmingham.
• E.M.Hodges Learning Styles in Deafblind Pupils: Perspectives from Practice Completed 2004, University of Birmingham.
• J.M.Ellins Departmental Differences in Attitudes to Special Educational Needs and their Impact on Practice in the Secondary School. Completed 2004 University of Birmingham.
• C.A.Szwed The Developing Role of the Primary Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator Completed 2004, University of Birmingham.
• V. Argyropoulus An investigation into tactual shape perception and geometrical concepts in students who are blind. Completed 2002, University of Birmingham.
• D.Koutantos A cultural understanding of collaboration between parents of children with SEN and educationalists in the Special School in Crete. Completed 2001, University of Birmingham.