Educating students with severe and multiple disabilities: A collaborative approach

Educating students with severe and multiple disabilities: A collaborative approach is a 552-page fifth edition of a bestselling textbook that offers a thoroughly updated, and streamlined version. Written for both current and future educators, this book is packed with research and teaching strategies in a team-based, collaborative approach. Folks from special education, physical therapy, occupational therapy, communication, counseling, and pediatrics fields all had a hand in this edition. New to this edition are chapters on teaching strategies and transition to adulthood, cutting-edge information on assistive technology and understanding challenging behaviors, case stories at the start of each chapter, and more!

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Teaching for the lifespan: Successfully transitioning students with learning challenges to adulthood

Teaching for the lifespan: Successfully transitioning students with learning challenges to adulthood "makes transition planning easier. Backed by the latest research in learning and development, Teaching for the Lifespan provides you with the pedagogical best practices to promote your students’ strengths for life-long success. You’ll benefit from:

• A deep understanding of the educational, vocational, social, and emotional dimensions of adulthood for students with learning differences
• Techniques to help students with learning differences develop an awareness of proactive behaviors
• Strategies to help all learners achieve the demands of the Common Core and high-stakes assessments through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)"

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Evaluating online teaching: Implementing best practices

Evaluating online teaching: Implementing best practices guides faculty members and administrators in crafting an evaluation process specifically suited to online teaching and learning, for more accurate feedback and better results. The authors address challenges that colleges and universities face in creating effective online teacher evaluations, including organizational structure, institutional governance, faculty and administrator attitudes, and possible budget constraints.

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Teaching children & young people with special educational needs & disabilities

Teaching children & young people with special educational needs & disabilities gives you the knowledge and practical advice you really need to help you teach children from 0-25 with special educational needs and disabilities. This book will guide you with chapters on

• Your first day in a specialist provision
• Teaching, planning, and assessment
• Working in partnership
• As well as material on specific conditions which covers all areas of exceptionality

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Teaching word recognition: Effective strategies for students with learning difficulties

Teaching word recognition: Effective strategies for students with learning difficulties synthesizes the research base on word recognition and translates it into step-by-step instructional strategies, with special attention to students who are struggling. Chapters follow the stages through which students progress as they work toward skilled reading of words. Presented are practical, evidence-based techniques and activities that target letter- sound pairings, decoding and blending, sight words, multisyllabic words, and fluency. -book description

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10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom

Looking for help with managing your special education classroom? 10 Critical Components for Success in the Special Education Classroom can help. Find real-world examples and learn about strategies to:

• Support all students with special needs,  including those with more severe disabilities
• Organize your classroom, materials, and staff and student schedules
• Plan and assess standards-based lessons, annual IEP’s, behavioral interventions, and more
• Foster parent communication and staff collaboration

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Design and Deliver

Need ideas to help students sharpen executive function skills, improve comprehension, and stay engaged during lessons? Check out Design and deliver: Planning and teaching using universal design for learning. In this easy-to-read book, K-12 educators will learn how to use the three key principles of UDL "Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression." Learn how to present information in multiple ways and meet the needs of diverse learners.

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Understanding and teaching the at-risk adult student

Understanding and Teaching the At-Risk Adult Student can help teachers working with adult education of students who are at-risk due to their criminal backgrounds, substance abuse issues or undiagnosed learning disabilities. This book provides readers with an overview of the challenges of working with this population of students, presents research on their unique challenges as learners, and provides teachers with evidence-based practices to enhance the success of this adult learner population.

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Mobile App Monday - ABA Receptive Identification

Looking for an app designed to teach language concepts to early learners? ABA Receptive Identification is used by educators and speech language pathologists worldwide. It offers over 300 beautiful, concrete photos presented against a non-distracting white background. Every image has been carefully selected for its familiarity, appeal to children and developmental value.

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Aligning IEPs to the Common Core State Standards

Looking for help aligning student IEP goals to instruction, assessment, and grade-level state standards? Aligning IEPs to the Common Core State Standards for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities presents a user-friendly template for doing just that. This book features new ideas for aligning IEPS in Language Arts and Math. Self-determination and assistive technology are also explored along with current hardware and software examples used to teach academic objectives.

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Teaching everyone: An introduction to inclusive education

Teaching Everyone is a new kind of special education textbook that focuses on children, not labels. The text fully prepares teachers to see past disability labels and work with all students' individual needs and strengths. It will get K-12 teachers ready to work effectively within today's educational system and meet the learning needs of a wide range of students. Each chapter clearly explains how the content helps students meet specific Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Initial Content Standards.

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RTI & DI: The Dynamic Duo

RTI and DI: The Dynamic Duo highlights two powerful approaches to addressing the needs of all learners in a classroom. With a student-centered focus and utilization of on-going assessment, these two methods of instruction can go hand-in-hand. Response to Intervention uses a problem solving process to match the needs of students to research based interventions. DI is a way to plan/deliver curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. It is through DI that RTI can be successfully implemented.

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Inclusive Instruction

Looking for tools to manage your inclusive classroom? Inclusive instruction: Evidence-based practices for teaching students with disabilities presents research-based strategies for supporting K-8 students with high-incidence disabilities to become accomplished learners. Learn to plan a curriculum that fosters concept development across content areas, promotes strategic learning, and builds fluent skill use. Find out how to integrate technology effectively into instruction.


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Systematic Instruction for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

Systematic instruction for students with moderate and severe disabilities was developed by a seasoned educator who has trained thousands of teachers. This textbook offers the nuts-and-bolts of the systematic instruction process which has its roots in applied behavior analysis. It includes sample lesson plans, chapter objectives, reflection questions, and a glossary. Practical materials, including 20 blank data collection sheets and quick step-by-step charts of instruction procedures, make this an invaluable resource for in-practice educators.

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Count Me In! K-5

Count Me In! K-5: Including learners with special needs in mathematics classrooms is research-based and field-tested. In this book, elementary teachers will find help creating programs for students with special needs. Case studies and teacher viewpoints are included as well as research on disability and solutions to managing learning environments.

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The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model for 21st Century Schools

The Brain-Targeted Teaching Model for 21st Century Schools offers valuable policies and practices that fit the advances in the cognitive sciences. It provides a forward-thinking model to help teachers integrate the arts with content areas and assess the extent to which brain-friendly concepts are being used in their lesson plans.

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The Complete Guide to RTI

The Complete Guide to RTI offers a complete overview of everything you need to make the strategy successful. Parents, teachers, and administrators will find value in this book as it is written not only for individual but also institutional success. Incorporating technology into analyzing the academic and behavioral data of the RTI process is just one of the many different techniques that can be found in the book.

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Systematic Screenings of Behavior to Support Instruction

Book Description for Systematic Screenings of Behavior to Support Instruction:

"Straightforward, practical, and user friendly, this unique guide addresses an essential component of decision making in schools. The authors show how systematic screenings of behavior—used in conjunction with academic data—can enhance teachers' ability to teach and support all students within a response-to-intervention framework. Chapters review reliable, valid screening measures for all grade levels, discuss their strengths and weaknesses, and explain how to administer, score, and interpret them. Practitioners get helpful guidance for evaluating their school's needs and resources and making sound choices about which tools to adopt."

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Simplifying RTI

What are the four essential guiding principles of RTI, you ask? In Simplifying RTI: Four essential guiding principles, you will find effective answers to implementation questions.The four essential principles of pyramid response to intervention explored in the book are:
  1. Collective responsibility - A shared belief that the primary responsibility of each member of the organization is to ensure high levels of learning for every child
  2. Concentrated instruction - A collaborative process that focuses teacher teams on the skills and knowledge most important to the student and his or her future
  3. Convergent assessment - An ongoing process of collecting targeted information to add depth and breadth to the understanding of each student s individual needs, obstacles, and points of learning leverage
  4. Certain access - A systematic process that guarantees every student will receive the time and support needed to learn at high levels

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Teaching Literacy to Learners with Dyslexia

Looking for help teaching literacy to children with dyslexia? Pick up Teaching Literacy to Learners with Dyslexia: A Multisensory Approach. Here's an excerpt from the book's description:

"...It offers a structured, cumulative, multi-sensory teaching program for learners with dyslexia, and draws attention to some of the wider aspects of the learning styles and differences of learners with dyslexia such as memory, information processing, and automaticity. Designed to help support any learner, ages 5 to 18, with dyslexia or specific learning difficulties."

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