Wearmouth is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at The Open University in the UK. She is an experienced teacher, researcher and author in the area of special educational needs and difficulties in literacy development. Her research interests include pupil self advocacy, the development and organisation of special and/ or additional provision for pupils who experience difficulties in learning in mainstream schools, and home-school literacy partnerships. She is co-chair of the course team which developed and produced the Open Universi...