Special Education category: 3739 books
Understanding and Promoting Access for People with Learning Difficulties
Seeing the Opportunities and Challenges of Risk
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The issue of access is at the forefront of the practical challenges facing people with learning difficulties and people working with or supporting them. This engaging text brings together evidence, narratives and discussions that question and advance our understanding of the concept of access for...
Difference Not Disorder
Understanding Autism Theory in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Interventions and educational approaches for children with autism spectrum disorders have developed in response to the different models for how autism has been constructed and understood. This book explores the evolving theories on autism and how these have impacted the interventions and outcomes...
Rethinking Learning Disabilities
Understanding Children Who Struggle in School
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it. Leading researcher and clinician Deborah Waber offers an alternative to the prevailing view of learning disability as a problem contained within the child. Instead,...
Publish and Prosper
A Strategy Guide for Students and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Intended to help readers succeed in academia by increasing their scholarly productivity, this book provides strategies for getting articles published quickly in reputable research journals. Rather than focusing on the basics of writing about results, this unique guidebook provides tips on how to approach...
Using Concept Mapping to Foster Adaptive Expertise
Enhancing Teacher Metacognitive Learning to Improve Student Academic Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Concept mapping is a powerful means to promote metacognitive learning in students and teachers alike. When teachers integrate concept mapping into their instructional planning, they clarify the big ideas, expose new conceptual relationships, and refine learning goals for their students. Salmon and...
Technology-Rich Teaching
Classrooms in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Information and computer technology arrived in classrooms more than three decades ago. Despite the efforts of educators and technologists, much teaching and learning has remained unchanged since it arrived. This is in contrast to the widespread adoption of computer technology in many other endeavors....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
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...
Supporting Children with Post Tramautic Stress Disorder
A Practical Guide for Teachers and Profesionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
It is estimated that at any one time around 135,000 school children are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They may be survivors of abuse (physical, emotional or sexual) or bullying. Some may have been involved in a road accident, an accident at home or any other traumatic event....
Physical Activities In the Wheelchair and Out
An Illustrated Guide to Personalizing Participation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
As a person involved in the care and development of individuals with disabilities, you have both the opportunity and challenge to provide movement experiences that fit within the scope of each person’s abilities.Physical Activities In the Wheelchair and Out: An Illustrated Guide to Personalizing...
Paulo Freire
The Global Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This collection is the first book devoted to Paulo Freire’s ongoing global legacy to provide an analysis of the continuing relevance and significance of Freire’s work and the impact of his global legacy. The book contains essays by some of the world’s foremost Freire scholars – McLaren, Darder,...
Bullismo e cyberbullismo
Comprenderli per combatterli. Strategie operative per psicologi, educatori ed insegnanti
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Una proposta di percorsi educativi basati sulla conoscenza dei processi di sviluppo, sull’importanza dell’assunzione di responsabilità e sulla forza dell’esempio. Vengono descritte alcune “buone pratiche” di prevenzione ed esempi di ciò che un adulto “non dovrebbe fare” insieme a possibili...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The Routledge Companion to Dyslexia is a ground-breaking analysis of the whole field of dyslexia by a distinguished team of international contributors and editors, engaged in literacy, inclusion and learning. Their diverse perspectives and wide expertise make this invaluable guide one of the most...
by Deirdre Martin, Carol Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Now fully updated and revised in the light of recent developments in practice, this book discusses children's language development and language difficulties in the context of the classroom. The book will help the practitioner to understand the range of language difficulties experienced by children...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Serving students with academic deficiencies necessitates communication and collaboration among professionals from several disciplines. Academic Assessment and Intervention brings together divergent approaches in order to demonstrate that scientific evidence, rather than biases or previous practice,...