"For years the text of choice for developing excellence as a teacher of K-12 students with moderate and severe disabilities, this clearly written work has now been revised and updated. Chapters provide step-by-step procedures for designing standards-based individualized education plans and evaluating and enhancing student progress. Methods and materials for teaching literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies are described in depth. The book also describes effective ways to build functional daily living skills. User-friendly features include extensive vignettes and classroom examples, end-of-chapter application exercises, and reproducible planning and assessment tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. Subject Areas/Key words: special education, children, adolescents, special-needs learners, disabled, moderately, severely, developmental disorders, academic interventions, academic skills, life skills, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, inclusion classrooms, systematic instruction, special educators, teachers, literacy, reading, mathematics, textbooks, texts Audience: Students in special education and school psychology; K-12 special educators, school psychologists, reading specialists, classroom teachers, and administrators"--
Ryan is a 6-year-old who is a member of Annette Harris's first-grade class. Ryan has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair for ambulation. Ryan also has a severe intellectual disability and does not use speech.
This book has been replaced by Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities, Second Edition, 978-1-4625-4238-3.
'I was rejuvenated by the opportunities for exciting and meaningful instruction.
Written by a seasoned educator with decades of experience training a multitude of teachers, this is the accessible, up-to-date text today's teachers need to succeed in inclusive classrooms and improve outcomes for students with moderate and ...
Teaching Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities: Use of Response Prompting Strategies
A rationale for comprehensive longitudinal interactions between severely handicapped students and nonhandicapped students and other citizens. American Association for the Education of the Severely/Profoundly Handicapped, 4, 3–14. Brown ...
The book also has a broad emphasis on diversity, with a section in each chapter devoted to exploring how instructional strategies can be modified to accommodate diverse exceptional students.
Strategies for Teaching Students with Severe and Low-Incidence Disabilities
This updated edition of Teaching Students with Severe Disabilities, is written in a way that makes the most complex findings of research understandable and usable in the real educational world.
Serving learners from kindergarten through age 21, this field-tested curriculum is a must for professionals and parents devoted to directly preparing a student to function in the world. It examines...