Author: Janet Goepel

Sheila Sharpe was until recently a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University with roles including course leader for the PG Cert Senco award and inclusion co-ordinator for the undergraduate and postgraduate primary and early years teacher education programme. She has taught children from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures with a range of learning and emotional needs. In addition she has been a SENCo in a primary school and has worked in an advisory capacity in a local authority supporting teachers in meeting the language and literacy needs of children.