Learning Disabled category: 563 books

This comprehensive guide is bursting with achievable teaching strategies for those involved with ASD students in the school environment. Due to understaffed classes or poor staff training, many students with ASDs are taught in mainstream lessons where they do not receive the help they require and...

Based on the authors' model of auditory, speech, and language development, the book provides educators with effective techniques and strategies for working with children in the primary grades.

Offers clear guidelines aligned with the reauthorization of IDEA 2004 for assessing students' eligibility for special education services and for working with families and service providers.

The fourth edition of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Identification, Education, and Treatment continues the mission of its predecessors: to present a comprehensive, readable, and up-to-date overview of the field of autism; one that links research, theory, and practice in ways that are accessible to students,...

This book is aimed at those who encounter secondary school students with dyslexia on a daily basis. It takes a practical approach by breaking down the whole process of assessing the issues involved and then suggesting ways for teaching staff and students to implement a suitable program of study skills....

Dance, Belle, Dance! is the touching story of a young girl, Belle Andrews, who was born with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Her inability to focus in the classroom creates many obstacles and her immaturity results in social miscues, which her peers don't understand. Yet she refuses...

Glenn Doman—pioneer in the treatment of the brain-injured children and founder of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential—brings hope to thousands of children who have been sentenced to a life of institutional confinement. In What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child, Doman...

Do your or any other adult in your family have challenges with ADD (attention deficit disorder) and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)?  If so this book serves well to help you to learn more about the two condition as well as learn the best ways in which they can be treated at this level....

The Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability provides an integrated, transdisciplinary overview of research-based practices for teaching students with intellectual disability. This comprehensive volume emphasizes education across life stages, from early...

Responding to disruptive or troubled pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) remains a highly topical issue. The challenges these children present relate to wider issues of continuing political concern: the perceived declining discipline in schools; school and social exclusion; the...

Un manuale per tutti coloro che intendono diventare interpreti di Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS). La grande novità del libro è la possibilità di esercitarsi e poi confrontarsi con alcuni video, che riportano anche le attività svolte dal vivo durante uno dei corsi per interpreti organizzato dall’Ente Nazionale Sordi (sezione provinciale di Roma).

Un libro per gli insegnanti curricolari, di sostegno e assistenti alla comunicazione che lavorano con apprendenti sordi. Un testo ricco di esempi, suggerimenti e percorsi di lavoro, accompagnati però sempre da riflessioni teoriche, affinché il saper fare derivi dalla consapevolezza che la sordità...

Il testo propone una panoramica delle difficoltà e dei disturbi che s’incontrano con maggiore frequenza nella scuola, facendo riferimento all’ICD10 e al DSM-5, ma con uno sguardo ampio, il più possibile attento alle differenze. Uno sguardo che tiene conto dei vissuti con gli occhi degli alunni,...

Non possiamo curare il corpo se non ci prendiamo cura anche del “cuore” e della mente. Il contatto con natura e animali ci può venire in aiuto, ma come? In questo libro possiamo ritrovare la filosofia e le caratteristiche del metodo di lavoro Elide Del Negro® che utilizza materiali naturali...