Covering a wide range of SEN and disabilities this book examines teachers’, young peoples’ and parents’ perspectives with a focus on specific educational aspects, such as curriculum and pedagogy. Bang up-to-date with policy changes in the special needs and inclusive education context, the book offers an introduction to the special needs and inclusive education field for teachers and other allied professionals (e.g. speech and communication therapists) as well as parents ad policy makers, by: • Examining the lived experience of parents, teachers and children/young people with special educational needs/ disability in education • Illustrating some of their experienced tensions and how they deal with them • Exploring the significance of these experiences for policy and practice The book features several case studies that compare and contrast the experiences and perspectives of parents, teachers and the child or young person as regards their education. Education will be taken in the book to be wider than schooling as usually understood. As the book is about the participants’ experiences, it will be in terms of their understandings and meanings that these terms are to be understood.