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Overly-simplistic messaging can blight attempts to educate children with learning disabilities about staying healthy, says Dr Jane Essex

Pupils who retreat from view in class seldom present challenging behaviour and often attain well in assessment. So should teachers ‘let sleeping learners lie’ or coax them to participate more? Jane Essex explores the issues

A lifetime of campaigning for inclusion in education has resulted in a Royal Society of Chemistry medal for Jane Essex. But why, she asks, are her efforts still an outlier when it is so clear that pupils with additional support needs benefit from learning science?