Written by a world authority on maths difficulties in children, this accessible guide provides tried and tested visual strategies and tailored techniques to help teachers and parents support children with SpLDs who need help with maths.
Over the past decade there has been a significant increase in interest from educators and the general public about deafness, special education, and the development of children with special needs.
Currently, many children are unable to access emotional support services, and other members of a child's support network are required to provide this emotional guidance and support.
This book supports inclusive practice by examining learning difficulties within the context of how humans learn and how teaching can create or prevent problems.
Education is an important aspect of the environmental influences on autism and effective education can have a significant effect on outcome for those on the autism spectrum.
Although an abundance of research exists on working with students with autism, teachers need the practical strategies in Success Strategies for Teaching Kids With Autism to build successful programs and services for kids with autism.
Experiential learning is a powerful and proven approach to teaching and learning that is based on one incontrovertible reality: people learn best through experience.
The bestselling guide, fully revised and updated, offering practical information and tips to help every child with ADHD succeed The ADD/ADHD Checklist helps parents and teachers to better understand children and teenagers with attention problems and provide the kind of support and intervention that is crucial to kids' success.
Education exists within a complex and changing world and many learners face a variety of risk factors - conditions, circumstances, situations, or events - that threaten to negatively impact upon their development and achievement.
With specific learning difficulties more prevalent than ever in mainstream schools, this is the essential guide for teachers wishing to create inclusive and successful learning environments in diverse classrooms.
An invaluable collection of sample case reports from experts in child and adolescent assessment With contributions from authorities in the fields of psychology and special education-including Dawn Flanagan, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, Randy Kamphaus, Nadeen Kaufman, George McCloskey, Jack Naglieri, Cecil Reynolds, and Gale Roid Comprehensive Evaluations provides over fifty sample case reports to help you draft carefully planned, goal-directed, and comprehensive evaluations that clearly explain the reasons for a student's school-related difficulties, from preschool to postsecondary level.
This trailblazing resource teaches educators how to support the strengths of children and teens on the autism spectrum as they transition into their lives as adults.
Giving Voice to Profound Disability is devoted to exploring the lives of people with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities, and brings together the voices of those best placed to speak about the rewards and challenges of living with, supporting and teaching this group of vulnerable and dependent people - including parents, carers and teachers.
Clearly illustrated, this is the ultimate practical handbook for all professionals working with children with eating and drinking difficulties, and an essential guide for all students studying this area of therapy.
Children with pervasive developmental disorders often do not learn from conventional methods, which can result in social isolation, behavior problems, limitations in communication, and slow academic growth.
This comprehensive resource profiles the articulation ability of a client, identifies areas in particular need of treatment and provides the material and tools to create tailor-made practice worksheets.
This is the first book to examine in-depth the crucial role of the speed of information processing in the brain in determining reading fluency in both normal and dyslexic readers.
This is a guidebook to help children who: "e;are missing someone too much or suffer from separation anxiety"e;; are obsessed with their absent parent "e;yearn for a parent who: has died; seems unreachable, although she is right there; or is loving one minute and indifferent, cold or abusive the next"e;.
Solution Focused Practice is a change-focused approach to enabling people of all ages to make progress in their lives by emphasising what is wanted in the future, amplifying successes and highlighting the capacities and skills available to support progress.
This ground-breaking book gives an accessible overview and synthesis of current knowledge of relevance to the development of excellence in autism education.
Die Anwendung anthroposophischen Denkens auf die Heilpädagogik geht unmittelbar auf Rudolf Steiner zurück, der seinen heilpädagogischen Kurs als eine Vertiefung der Waldorfpädagogik betrachtete.
The integration of children with special needs into mainstream schools demands a reorganisation of staff and support levels both in schools and in the advisory services.
Teaching Deaf Learners: Psychological and Developmental Foundations explores how deaf students (children and adolescents) learn and the conditions that support their reaching their full cognitive potential -- or not.
In diesem Band des Enzyklopädischen Handbuchs wird zum ersten Mal im deutschen Sprachraum übergeordnet zu klassischen sonderpädagogischen Fachrichtungen eine umfassende Gesamtdarstellung zentraler Theorien, Konzeptansätze und Inhalte der Bereiche "Sprache und Kommunikation" mitsamt ihren anwendungsorientierten Fragestellungen präsentiert.
School-Based Behavioral Intervention Case Studies translates principles of behavior into best practices for school psychologists, teachers, and other educational professionals, both in training and in practice.
Completely revised and updated in light of the new SEND 2014 Code of Practice, this new edition supports teachers in making good provision for children and young people with a range of co-ordination difficulties.
The BNVR Test is a unique non-linguistic approach for identifying whether a cognitive (problem-solving) deficit as well as a linguistic deficit exists in individuals with acquired aphasia.