Special Education category: 3739 books
Ability Profiling and School Failure
One Child's Struggle to be Seen as Competent
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Ability Profiling and School Failure, Second Edition explores the social and contextual forces that shape the appearance of academic ability and disability and how these forces influence the perception of academic underachievement of minority students. At the book’s core is the powerful case study...
by Lynne McClure, Jennifer Piggott
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Mathematics provides specific guidance on:
recognising high ability and potential
planning, differentiation, extension and enrichment in Mathematicss
teacher questioning skills
support for more able pupils with special educational needs (dyslexia,...
Functional Behavioral Assessment
A Special Issue of exceptionality
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Published in 2000, Functional Behavioral Assessment is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.
Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities and ADHD
Assessment and Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Most of the literature on learning disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) focuses on the needs of elementary school–age children, but older students with these conditions also require significant support. Comprehensive and authoritative, this book helps educators and clinicians...
Educating Gifted Students in Middle School
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Understanding and meeting the needs of gifted students in middle school offers unique challenges. This newly revised and expanded second edition of "Educating Gifted Students in Middle School" updates the practical information about meeting these needs offered in the award-winning 2004 edition....
Unlocking Student Talent
The New Science of Developing Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do we truly help students achieve their fullest potential? What are the roles of motivation, deliberate practice, and coaching in developing talent and abilities in students? This hands-on guide examines each of these elements in detail providing definitions, relevant research, discussions, examples,...
Inclusive Instruction
Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching Students with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This accessible book presents research-based strategies for supporting K-8 students with high-incidence disabilities to become accomplished learners. The authors clearly describe the core components of effective inclusive instruction, showing how to recognize and respond to individual students' needs...
RTI With Differentiated Instruction, Grades 6–8
A Classroom Teacher’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
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...
by Toby J. Karten
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Inclusion means more than just preparing students to pass standardized tests and increasing academic levels. In inclusive classrooms, students with special educational needs are treated as integral members of the general education environment. Gain strategies to offer the academic, social, emotional, and behavioral benefits that allow all students to achieve their highest potential.
Accessing the General Curriculum
Including Students With Disabilities in Standards-Based Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
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.
Twice Exceptional
Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
In an educational system founded on rigid standards and categories, students who demonstrate a very specific manifestation of intelligence flourish, while those who deviate tend to fall between the cracks. Too often, talents and interests that do not align with classroom conventions are left unrecognized...
by David Wiegan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
In the United States alone, there are roughly three million individuals living with a developmental disability, but less than a third are active in the labor market. This book provides a comprehensive approach to developing a successful jobs program for persons with developmental disabilities, drawn...
by Evan Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
We've all heard the saying… "Work Smarter, and Not Just Harder". Accelerate your learning speed by being both the teacher and the student.
Imagine how much more you can accomplish if you are able to be your own teacher. Instead of adapting to other people's way of teaching, you...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book focuses on dyslexia and traumatic experiences. It strives towards fostering a scientific exchange that promotes emergence of synergy effects and real progress in the understanding of dyslexia, psychological trauma, and stress experiences, as well as special methodological problems of qualitative...