The Social Stories(TM) approach is widely acknowledged as a key technique for teaching social and life skills to children with autistic spectrum disorders.
Teaching Exceptional Children is an ideal textbook for introductory graduate and undergraduate courses on early childhood special education and teaching in inclusive classrooms.
The organisation Achievement for All engaged in international projects in England, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, South Korea, the United States of America and Wales with the aim of raising the aspirations, access and achievements of vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people.
In the fall of 2009, Amy Lutz and her husband, Andy, struggled with one of the worst decisions parents could possibly face: whether they could safely keep their autistic ten-year-old son, Jonah, at home any longer.
Interdisziplinär, praxisorientiert und auf der Grundlage der Theorien und Konzepte von Public Health/Gesundheitswissenschaften werden diese Fragen praxisnah dargestellt: - Wo gibt es Ansatzpunkte der Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention, die über die gesundheitlichen Grundbedürfnisse von Menschen mit Behinderung hinausgehen?
A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education brings sociological perspectives to bear on the social, political and economic policies and practices that comprise special and inclusive education, and the education of lower attainers.
Designed for practitioners who work with the gifted, this volume is intended to serve as a practical and easy-to-use resource for working with gifted students, their teachers, and their parents and families.
Alex Kelly's internationally renowned TALKABOUT books are a series of practical workbooks designed to develop the self-awareness, self-esteem, and social skills of people with special needs.
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.
Special Educational Needs and Disability provides a clear, coherent overview of the historical development of the field of special educational, or additional learning or support needs and disability, and discusses important past and current social and political contexts in which this took place, as well as changes in the law across time.
Für die Heilpädagogik fehlt bislang eine umfassende Begründung und Konzeptionalisierung einer Didaktik und Methodik, in der heilpädagogisches Denken und Handeln konsequent verknüpft werden.
A textbook on differentiation that considers the range of students that teachers have to teach, in terms of abilities, learning styles, social background, cultural diversity, special needs and so forth.
This volume presents the latest research from internationally recognized researchers and practitioners on language, literacy and numeracy, cognition, and social and emotional development of deaf learners.
Packed full of practical tips to use in the classroom, case studies to provide theoretical grounding and ideas to improve inclusion, Teaching Adult Learners with Dyslexia and English as an Additional Language covers all the key areas necessary to ensure inclusive and effective teaching practice in higher and further education settings.
Getting young children active and supporting their physical development right from the start is essential for children's all-round development and good health.
Leadership for Mental Wellbeing in the Secondary School is an introduction to a set of simple shifts you can enact to make your work more rewarding, and your school a flagship of excellence.
One of the largest and most complex human services systems in history has evolved to address the needs of people with autism and intellectual disabilities, yet important questions remain for many professionals, administrators, and parents.
Understanding Sensory Dysfunction is a clear and comprehensive resource to identifying and addressing sensory dysfunction in children, using a range of practical strategies to help them reach their full potential at home, at school and in the community.
Gunilla Gerland's extensive experience of the autism spectrum means she is expertly placed to offer a fresh perspective on working with autism as well as a wealth of effective tools and interventions to use in practice.
This practical resource is designed to help the families and professionals who support children who use augmentative and assistive communication (AAC) to interact with the world around them.
Finding a way of simultaneously addressing the sensory, motor, emotional, communicative, cognitive and social needs of children on the autism spectrum can be a real challenge, and choosing from the vast array of options available is a daunting task.
Effective Augmentative and Alternative Communication Practices provides a user-friendly handbook for any school-based practitioner, whether you are a special education teacher, an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) consultant, assistive technology consultant, speech language pathologist, or occupational therapist.
This essential book offers clear guidelines for determining if the Culturally Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students / English Language Learners (ELL) in your general education classroom are experiencing typical language differences, learning disabilities, or both.
Sharing the personal stories of individuals with disabilities who describe both the challenges and successes of their time in higher education, and with a major section on the findings of broad ranging research into the experiences of such students, the book explores the current situation, what works, and how things can be improved.
This book helps clinicians harness the benefits of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
In recent years, the intersection of cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and neuroscience with regard to deaf individuals has received increasing attention from a variety of academic and educational audiences.
Researching in special and inclusive education can be challenging due to the frequent difficulties in eliciting the views of individuals identified with SEND.
In den letzten 30 Jahren hat sich Unterstützte Kommunikation in Theorie, Forschung und Praxis enorm weiterentwickelt und ist mittlerweile in vielen pädagogischen, therapeutischen und medizinischen Arbeitsbereichen wichtiger Bestandteil professioneller Arbeit.
First published in 1994, Tilting the Tower explores the status of lesbians and lesbian studies in the high school and university classroom and in the academy.
A seminal handbook in the field for more than 20 years, this new and updated edition of Mathematics for Dyslexicsand Dyscalculics contains the latest research and best practices for helping learners with numerical and mathematical difficulties.
Salome Thomas-EL, award-winning educator and the highly-praised author of I Choose to Stay, has helped hundreds of troubled children get into magnet high schools, major colleges, and universities.
