Special Education category: 3739 books
Collaborate, Communicate, and Differentiate!
How to Increase Student Learning in Today’s Diverse Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Collaboration 101 for teachers, parents, and school communities
Teachers in both general and special education classrooms are being asked to collaborate to give all students access to the general education curriculum. The challenge is that teachers receive very little training in how to collaborate...
Collaboration
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Educating Students with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This practical resource for teachers, professionals, and parents addresses collaboration, effective communication, and how to work with families. Information also is included on the many different professionals involved in the education of students with disabilities such as occupational therapists,...
Collaboration Among Professionals, Students, Families, and Communities
Effective Teaming for Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Collaboration Among Professionals, Students, Families, and Communities provides a foundation for understanding concepts of collaborative learning along with strategies for the application of collaborative skills in teaching. The book moves logically from issues of macro-collaboration (district and...
Exploring ADHD
An ethnography of disorder in early childhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric condition of childhood worldwide, yet the medical and psychological perspectives that dominate our understandings of ADHD present problems in their reductive understanding of the condition. Exploring ADHD incorporates...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
It is important that stakeholders are aware of practices supported as effective for students with learning and behavioral disabilities in order to provide instruction that results in improved learner outcomes. Perhaps equally important, stakeholders should also know which practices have been shown...
Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom
Critical Practices for Embracing Diversity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom is a core textbook that integrates knowledge and practice from the fields of disability studies and special education. The second edition has been fully revised and updated throughout to include stronger connections between race, class, sexual orientation,...
I Have Autism, Who Will Be My Voice?
A Mother's Search for Answers
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Mary Ann Puckett's book is a must read for anyone who is dealing with autism. Readers who would benefit from this book would not only be parents and caregivers, but also teachers, doctors, nurses, therapists, and the general public. For over three and a half decades Mary Ann has faced many challenging...
Identification of Learning Disabilities
Research To Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Identification of Learning Disabilities: Research to Practice is the remarkable product of a learning disabilities summit conference convened by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in August 2001 and the activities following that summit. Both the conference and this book were seen as important...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
In this ground-breaking collection, leading experts in the field address the problems of parents, intervenors, and professionals who work with people who have been deafblind since birth or from a very early age.
Individuals who are congenitally deafblind face the same challenges as those who...
by Christine Breakey, Matthew Hesmondhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Based on pioneering work at their school in Sheffield, the authors of this book explore the universal issues of access and inclusion in employment and education for children and young people with autism or Asperger's Syndrome. They describe the challenges they faced in establishing and running an...
Asian Education Miracles
In Search of Sociocultural and Psychological Explanations
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
With a focus on Asian contexts, this book brings together knowledge on how values and practices, embedded and practised in the classroom, school, family, and the society at large, can influence students’ motivation, engagement and psychological well-being. The book synthesizes research on students...
Using Drama with Children on the Autism Spectrum
A Resource for Practitioners in Education and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
The second edition of Using Drama with Children on the Autism Spectrum takes the perspective that support for the learning and development of children should have the purpose of giving them the freedom to be more fully who they are and able to function more effectively as themselves in a wider range...
Children as Philosophers
Learning Through Enquiry and Dialogue in the Primary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Since the publication of the first edition of Children as Philosophers in 2002 there has been an enormous growth of interest in philosophy with children.
This fully revised second edition suggests ways in which you can introduce philosophical enquiry to your Personal, Social and Health Education...
by Joseph Winnick, David L. Porretta
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The field of adapted physical education and sport has undergone numerous changes in recent years. This new edition of Adapted Physical Education and Sport will help you stay on top of those changes and, in doing so, provide the highest-quality physical education and sport opportunities for students...