Special Education category: 3739 books
Best Practices for the Inclusive Classroom
Scientifically Based Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Written by expert teachers and researchers, Best Practices for the Inclusive Classroom looks at field-tested strategies teachers of inclusive classrooms need to implement to successfully teach all of the learners in their classroom.
The purpose of the book is to provide both general and special...
by Sally Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
What happens to young people who are defined as lower attainers or having learning difficulties in a global knowledge economy?
How do we stop those with learning difficulties or disabilities being seen as social problems or simply as consumers of resources?
Governments in developed countries...
A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays
Recognizing and Coping with Missed Milestones in Speech, Movement, Learning, and Other Areas
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Developmental delays affect millions of children each year, and often go undetected until an alert and caring parent recognizes there’s a problem. In A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays, special education expert and consultant Laurie LeComer, M.Ed., provides essential information for any parent...
Homeschooling the Challenging Child: A Practical Guide
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Often, families will choose homeschooling because they have children who cannot cope or thrive within traditional educational environments due to special physical or emotional needs. Homeschooling the Challenging Child addresses these special education issues, offering potential and current homeschooling...
Teaching Adolescents with Autism
Practical Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Award-winning educator Walter Kaweski offers secondary teachers practical strategies and heartfelt insights based on his extensive experience as an autism specialist, inclusion coordinator, and father of a son with Asperger syndrome. Students with special needs often require extra support as they...
(Un)Learning Disability
Recognizing and Changing Restrictive Views of Student Ability
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do high school students confront and resolve conflicting messages about their intelligence and academic potential, particularly when labeled with social and learning disabilities? How does disability become “disablement” when negative attitudes and disparaging perceptions of ability...
Accessible Education for Blind Learners
Kindergarten through PostSecondary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
(special supplemental workbook) The goal of this manual is to enhance the capacity of all members of the educational context, whether student, parent, teacher, administrator, or consultant, to activate the benefits of infused technologies for all learners, including those who are blind or have low vision....
Helping Your Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities
Strategies to Succeed in School and Life with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, and Processing Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Based in cutting-edge research in neuroscience, education, and the principles of attachment-based teaching, this important guide for parents offers tools and practices to help children transcend language-based learning difficulties, do better in school, and gain self-confidence and self-esteem.
If...
Counseling Gifted Students
A Guide for School Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
"Drs. Susannah Wood and Jean Peterson have combined forces to move the field of school counseling forward in its work on behalf of gifted students… This subtle regularizing into appropriate school counseling practice is actually quite radical as is makes it clear that the time has passed to consider...
by Dilwyn Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Religious Education provides specific guidance on:
recognising high ability and multiple intelligences
planning, differentiation and extension/enrichment in RE
teacher questioning skills
support for more able pupils with special educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
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...
Achieving Successful Transitions for Young People with Disabilities
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
This best practice guide provides a blueprint for managing seamless transitions between services for young people aged 16-25 with additional needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, complex health needs and sensory impairments.
The authors cover a wide range of transitions,...
by Cordula Zwanzig
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Pedagogy - Orthopaedagogy and Special Education, grade: 2,0, University of Warwick (Institute of Education), course: Working with Children in a Diverse Society, language: English, abstract: Although research and politicians already equally well realised...
by Gavin Reid
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
'[Gavin Reid] provides some useful links to websites devoted to different approaches. Some of the ideas relating to specific areas of the curriculum, for example, the suggested approaches to the teaching of modern languages, are likely to be particularly valuable. Reid also outlines strategies using...