Learning Disabled category: 563 books

Various forms of grouping and acceleration are studied in this volume, along with recommendations for implementation.

Written by legal and education experts and aligned with the reauthorization of IDEA 2004, this practical resource provides a step-by-step plan for creating, writing, and evaluating IEPs.

Focusing on the link between gifted education and general education, this resource discusses the benefits of differentiating curriculum and instruction.

Similar to a handbook in its comprehensive description of the theory and research supporting current practices in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders, this interdisciplinary text shows how the existing knowledge base can be used to explore promising new possibilities related to the field’s...

Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs: Collaborating Across the Age Span teaches students the skills they need to effectively collaborate with parents and families to ensure a child's success in the classroom. Authors Vicki A. McGinley and Melina Alexander’s text takes a lifespan approach...

This ready reference offers decision makers the tools they need to shape a successful and enriching curriculum for gifted students.

This book is designed to help parents and adults who teach children with autism how to play. Children with autism need to be taught these important play skills that are so challenging for them. These play skills build social connections and relationships as children become adults. Parents can be a child's first playmate. Start where your child is at developmentally and have fun!

This book presents an innovative model for supporting executive function in students with attention, memory, organization, planning, inhibition, initiative, and flexibility difficulties, including those with ADHD, ADD, autism spectrum disorders and related conditions. The author advocates a...

Test-drive these research-based strategies in your inclusive classroom!  Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book focuses on extending academic research to classroom practices that address the problems faced by teachers working with special needs learners in inclusive classrooms....

Integrating DI and RTI in the elementary grades While differentiated instruction is familiar to most educators, the principles and practices of Response to Intervention (RTI) are still emerging. This helpful guide examines the relationship between differentiated instruction and RTI through...

An efficient way to merge differentiated instruction and RTI This hands-on guide brings together the two leading approaches to teaching students of varying abilities: Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI) and differentiated instruction (DI). Written in a practical, “how-to” format...

These guidelines for special education teachers cover gathering student information, classroom design, meeting with parents, evaluation, assessment, classroom management, instructional interventions, and grading options.

Featuring updated strategies for fitting special education into frameworks created by standards and assessments, this indispensable resource shows teachers how to achieve expected results with all students.

Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Mathematics will be an essential resource for teachers, classroom assistants, and SENCOs who help dyslexic and dyscalculic children with their understanding of mathematics. Written in an accessible style with helpful illustrations, this practical book reveals helpful ways...