Publications & Articles

Articles and Chapters

Imray P and Wolger J (1999) A Home Grown Answer to the Problem of Support Staff Training. The SLD Experience. 25: 2-4.

Imray P (2004) The ultimate question to life? But……… The SLD Experience. 40: 5-7.

Imray P (2005) Moving towards simple, understandable and workable definitions of severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties. The SLD Experience. 42: 33-37.

Imray P (2007) The inclusion debate continues. A commentary on ‘Inclusion: does it matter where pupils are taught?’ The SLD Experience. 47: 7-10.

Imray P (2007) Training and PMLD. PMLD Link 19 (2)

Imray P, Gazquez Navarro D, and Bond L. (2010) A PMLD Curriculum for the 21st Century. The SLD Experience. 58: 11-17.

Imray P and Andrews T (2012). Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) and learning difficulties. Insight 37. Curriculum Bitesize: 8-12.

Imray P (2012) Saying NO to ‘No’! The SLD Experience. 64: 17-20.

Imray P and Hinchcliffe V (2012) Not Fit for Purpose: a call for separate and distinct pedagogies as part of a national framework for those with severe and profound learning difficulties. Support for Learning, 27 (4) 150-157.

Imray P (2013) Can the P scales give a sufficient and accurate assessment of progress for pupils and students with severe or profound learning difficulties? The SLD Experience. 66: 17-25.

Imray P (2013) Alternatives assessment and pupil progress indicators to the P scales for pupils and students with SLD or PMLD. The SLD Experience. 67; 7-16

Imray P and Bond L (2015) Care as an educational concept in P Lacey, R Ashdown, P Jones, H Lawson and M Pipe (eds) The Routledge Companion to Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. London. Routledge.

Imray P and Hewett D (2015) Challenging Behaviour and the curriculum in P Lacey, R Ashdown, P Jones, H Lawson and M Pipe (eds) The Routledge Companion to Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. London. Routledge.

Imray P and Orr R (2015) Playing to learn or learning to play? Ideas on ensuring that the opportunity to play is continually accessible for learners with SLD/PMLD in P Lacey, R Ashdown, P Jones, H Lawson and M Pipe (eds) The Routledge Companion to Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties. London. Routledge.

Imray P (2015) What does Care have to do with Education? PMLD Link. 27 (2) 8-11

Imray P (2015) Literacy, Phonics, and the SLD Learner. The SLD Experience. 72: 8-11.

Imray P, Colley A, Holdsworth T, Carver G and Savory P (2017) Listening to Behaviours: adopting a Capabilities Approach to education. The SLD Experience. 76: 3-9.

Imray P (2017) Passing the Einstein Test: Thoughts on appropriate curricula for learners with PMLD and SLD. The SLD Experience. 77: 19-21

Imray P (2019) Including children and young people with complex needs in learning and life in R Webster (ed) Including Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Learning and Life. Abingdon. Routledge.

Imray P (2019) Is it a good thing to identify people as having profound and multiple learning disabilities? PMLD Link. 31(2): 21-23.

Imray P and Sissons M (2021) A Different View of Literacy. Support for Learning. 36 (2) 222-237.

Books

Imray P and Hinchcliffe V (2014) Curricula for Teaching Children and Young People with Severe or Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties: Practical Strategies for Education Professionals. London. Routledge.

Imray P and Colley A (2017) Inclusion is Dead: Long Live Inclusion. London. Routledge.

Imray P (2018) Turning the Tables on Challenging Behaviour. (2nd edition) London. Routledge.