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Legal Aspects Of Special Education
by Kurt E. HulettFor every course in Special Education Law and Education Law, or as a perfect supplement to any Educational Administration course, Legal Aspects of Special Education was written by a practitioner to help teachers, administrators, and advocates understand special education law in everyday language- without excessive legalese or extraneous case law. Different in many ways from other special education law texts on the market, all of the elements of this text are intended to help its students obtain the most critical information about special education law and how it is applied in the real world. Some unique features include: a fascinating opening interview and then epilogue with Joe Ballard, a pioneer of the IDEA movement; a discussion of Response-to-Intervention (RTI) and the implication of IDEA 2004 for school districts; and a discussion of the history of special education and its link to the Civil Rights Movement. Additionally, the book provides case studies and application questions, critical thinking questions, the most current information on the laws including No Child Left Behind and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004, and a discussion of major trends changing the laws, including that of autism.
Instruction of Students with Severe Disabilities
by Martha E. SnellThis book examines the principles behind teaching students with severe and multiple disabilities. This edition includes a stronger focus on positive behavior interventions and supports, and additional strategies on peer relationships.
The Bilingual Special Education Interface
by Leonard M. Baca Hermes T. CervantesThis book offers an understanding of the major needs of bilingual children who also have disabilities. Chapters highlight the connections between the common knowledge base, programs, and methodologies of special education and those of bilingual education in order to explore the ways to help exceptional children of Asian, African, Hispanic, and Native-American heritage. Practical information is balanced with strong research. Topics include: a judicial perspective on bilingual special education; a development of the bilingual special education interface; language acquisition; issues and assessment; procedures and techniques for assessment; individualized educational programs; instructional plans and curriculum development; methods and materials; family involvement; and issues in policy development and implementation. An excellent resource for teachers, counselors, psychologists, and speech/language specialists.
Assistive Technology For Children And Youth With Disabilities
by Mary Ann Marchel Denise M. Clark Thomas A. FischerEncompassing home, school and community environments, Assistive Technology for Children and Youth with Disabilities highlights the vast amount of supports available for children with disabilities from birth to age 21. An informative resource, the text details not only what types of assistive technology exist, but also how to select technology to meet specific students needs and match specific environmental circumstances. Chapters address the broad range of technologies now available, including supports for mobility, positioning, access, academic areas, behavior problems, recreation, and transitioning. Case examples, vignettes and activities provide practical, real-life examples that show how to use assistive technology to improve the independence and participation of students with special needs.
Interactive Teaming: Enhancing Programs for Students with Special Needs (4th edition)
by Vivian Ivonne Correa Hazel Jones Carol Chase Thomas Catherine Voelker MorsinkInteractive teaming in special programs is a concept of service delivery for school-age students who are currently placed in special education programs or are at risk for referral to such programs.
Behavior Management: A Practical Approach for Educators
by James E. Walker Thomas M. SheaChild psychology textbook aimed at teachers.
Parents And Families Of Children With Disabilities: Effective School-Based Support Services
by Richard L. Simpson Denise M. Clark Craig R. Fiedler Patricia J. Fewell William J. GibbsParents and Families of Children with Disabilities: Providing Effective School Based Support Services provides teachers and paraprofessionals with necessary motivation, research-based practices, skills, and resources to collaborate effectively wiith familes to develop family-centered schools. The book challenges educators to rethink the traditional roles and responsibilities of public schools, training teachers and paraprofessionals how to achieve effective stress management, child advocacy, and transition planning, as well as how to provide academic intervention for the families of children with disabilities and the diverse communities that surround them. General K-12 inservice teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents.
Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy
by Jonathan Lazar Anne Taylor Daniel GoldsteinThis book provides readers with a resource to digital accessibility from both a technical and policy perspective.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation (2nd edition)
by Carlos W. Pratt Kenneth J. Gill Nora M. Barrett Melissa M. RobertsPsychiatric rehabilitation refers to community treatment of people with mental disorders. Community treatment has recently become far more widespread due to deinstitutionalization at government facilities.
Current Issues in the Education of Students with Visual Impairments (International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume #46)
by Deborah D. HattonThis edition addresses current issues in the education of students with visual impairments and includes the expanded core curriculum for students with visual impairment, assistive technology, Braille reading comprehension, communication development, orientation and mobility issues, and more.
Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward Without Leaving People Behind
by Kel SmithThe blind person who tries to make an online purchase. The young girl who cannot speak due to a cognitive disability. The man confined to his home due to permanent injury. The single mother with a long-term illness who struggles to feed her family. With one in seven people worldwide currently living with a disability, the term "outcast" covers numerous scenarios. Digital outcasts rely on technology for everyday services that many people take for granted. However, poorly designed products risk alienating this important (and growing) population. Through a "grass roots" approach to innovation, digital outcasts are gradually taking action to transform their lives and communities. This emerging trend provides exciting learning opportunities for all of us. Citing real-world case studies from healthcare to social science, this book examines the emerging legal and cultural impact of inclusive design. Gain a better understanding of how people with disabilities use technology Discover pitfalls and approaches to help you stay current in your UX practices Anticipate a future in which ambient benefit can be achieved for people of all abilities and backgrounds.
In The Key Of Genius: The Extraordinary Life Of Derek Paravicini
by Adam OckelfordDerek Paravicini is blind, can't tell his right hand from his left and needs round-the-clock care. But he has an extremely rare gift - he is a musical prodigy with perfect pitch whose piano-playing has thrilled audiences at venues from Ronnie Scott's to Las Vegas, the Barbican to Buckingham Palace. <p><p> Born prematurely, Derek remained in hospital for three months and technically 'died' several times before he was finally strong enough to go home. It was not long before his blindness became apparent and later it became clear that he had severe learning difficulties and autism. <p> Desperately trying to find something to engage and stimulate baby Derek, his nanny discovered a toy organ and put it down in front of him. Miraculously, Derek taught himself to play. Music proved to be an outlet for expressing himself and communicating with others - his way of dealing with a strange and confusing world.
Social Skills Training for Psychiatric Patients
by Arnold P. Goldstein Leonard Krasner Sol L. GarfieldThis guidebook has been written for all disciplines in the mental health, counseling, and rehabilitation professions. It will be useful for highly trained psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers as well as for paraprofessionals who have only a bachelor's degree or less.
Educating Children with Exceptionalities 10/11 (20th edition)
by Karen L. FreibergThe Annual Editions series provides students with convenient, inexpensive access to current, carefully selected articles from the public press. Annual Editions: Educating Children with Exceptionalities 10/11 is an easy-to-use reader that presents articles on important topics such as fitting in, severe disabilities, gifted and talented, and many more.
Rethinking Disability: A Disability Studies Approach to Inclusive Practices
by Jan Valle David ConnorIn a series aimed at pre-service and beginning in-service teachers that is meant to boost teacher retention, this volume by Valle (City College, City U. of New York) and Conner (Hunter College, City U. of New York) brings together theory and practice in explaining how and why to implement inclusive education. They discuss inclusion through the frame of disability studies in education, which offers new ways to think about disability as a marker of identity and inclusive practices through a social model. They address the effects of teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and values on practice; misperceptions of disability; problems with the medical model of disability; how to create inclusive classrooms through classroom culture, assessment, and co-teaching; and acknowledging disability as part of diversity. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Principles and Methods of Adapted Physical Education and Recreation (11th Edition)
by David Auxter Carol Huettig Jean Pyfer Kristian Roth Lauriece L. ZittelProvides physical educators with up-to-date knowledge and skills to deal with all levels of students' abilities. It is the only text in the adapted physical education market that provides both task-specific and developmental teaching approaches. With the national movement to include most students with disabilities into the general curriculum, the text is designed to enable adapted and regular physical education teachers to successfully address those students' needs in the regular physical education class.
Universal Design Handbook (2nd edition)
by Wolfgang Preiser Korydon H. SmithThe Latest Advances in Universal Design. Thoroughly updated and packed with examples of global standards and design solutions, Universal Design Handbook, Second Edition, covers the full scope of universal design, discussing how to develop media, products, buildings, and infrastructure for the widest range of human needs, preferences, and functioning. This pioneering work brings together a rich variety of expertise from around the world to discuss the extraordinary growth and changes in the universal design movement. The book provides an overview of universal design premises and perspectives, and performance-based design criteria and guidelines. Public and private spaces, products, and technologies are covered, and current and emerging research and teaching are explored. This unique resource includes analyses of historical and contemporary universal design issues from seven different countries, as well as a look at future trends. Students, advocates, policy makers, and design practitioners will get a theoretical grounding in and practical reference on the physical and social roles of design from this definitive volume. UNIVERSAL DESIGN HANDBOOK, SECOND EDITION, COVERS: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; U. S. accessibility codes and standards, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); Life safety standards and guidelines; Universal design implementations in Norway, Japan, France, Germany, Brazil, Italy and the Old City of Jerusalem; Planning ADA implementation in public educational institutions; Urban scale and mass transportation universal design; Designing inclusive experiences, including outdoor play settings; Office and workspace design; Universal design in home building and remodeling; Products and technologies, including autos, web access, media, and digital content; Universal design research initiatives, education, and performance assessments.
Reflections From a Different Journey: What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew
by Stanley Klein John D. KempFrom the book: In this book, people with all kinds of disabilities make clear that they can be capable role models for children; advisors to their parents and family members; and teachers to educators, health care professionals, and the many other adults who provide services for children with disabilities and their families. In fact, the essays have important messages for all of us as we strive to make our world a more caring, loving, and peaceful place for all children and families. This book is a wonderful celebration of diversity. The essay writers have grown up with many different kinds of disabilities in many different places, including some countries outside the United States. They are not people who have "overcome" their disabilities. Rather, they have overcome the prejudices of society that all too often stereotype people with disabilities in destructive ways.
Adjustment to Severe Physical Disability: A Metamorphosis
by Charlene Deloach Bobby G. Greer<p><i>Adjustment to Severe Physical Disability: A Metamorphosis</i>, then, is designed for professionals-in-training, practicing professionals, and parents or families of disabled persons. <p>The book deals with (1) the societal misconceptions that impede the physical, psychological, and social adjustment of disabled persons; (2) the effects these misconceptions have on the attitudes and effectiveness of those who work with disabled persons; and (3) existing services, laws, environmental changes, and technological advances that affect both the efforts of professionals and the lives of disabled persons. In keeping with the goals of this book, the content ranges from hard science to advocacy, from objective data to personal experiences. Case illustrations are designed to stimulate discussion and self-exploration, as well as to illuminate the factual basis for author opinions with no printed sources. Ideally, these illustrations will serve a heuristic function, leading students to conduct needed research into the psychosocial aspects of disability. </p>
One, Two, Three... The Story of Matt, a Feral Child
by Eleanor CraigFrom the book: The voice on the phone was pleading, a husky whisper: "Please come. We fight about Matt all the time. Someone's got to help my son." Author Eleanor Craig, a social worker in real life, has written a hauntingly true story of her work with this boy from the moment she answered his father's desperate call. The first psychiatrist to evaluate the six-year-old boy described him as "a feral child, as wild as if he'd been raised by animals." Brain-damaged, retarded, autistic, schizophrenic--eventually Matt was accorded all the labels. And in an effort to prevent his being sent to a mental institution for the rest of his life, the author began to work with the boy, and with his mother, Nellie. The child ran naked at home, urinated on the living-room floor, and had yet to speak a word or even to indicate that he could understand anyone speaking to him. He drank from a baby's bottle, screamed constantly, had violent tantrums, and physically abused his mother. Yet until Matt's father called the clinic for help, only the child's parents knew of his existence. And then one day, walking down the stairs from the author's office, Matt began to count: -One... two... three...." But what could the future hold for a child who had spent the first six years of his life in a darkened home? And what about his mother, who was so fearful of letting him grow up that she was willing to risk his sanity? Readers will gasp at scenes in this incredible story of a family whose dependency on society was perpetuated by the inadequacies of the system itself. Other books by Eleanor Craig are available from Bookshare.
The Music of Silence: A Memoir
by Andrea Bocelli Stanislao PuglieseYou don't have to be an opera fan to appreciate this beautifully written memoir by world-famous tenor Andrea Bocelli. Born among the vineyards of Tuscany, Bocelli was still an infant when he developed glaucoma. Music filtering into his room soothed the unsettled child. By the age of twelve he was completely blind, but his passion for music brought light back into his life. Here Bocelli reveals the anguish of his blindness and the transcendent experience of singing. He writes about his loving parents, who nurtured his musical interests, the challenges of learning to read music in Braille and of competing in talent shows, his struggles with law school, and his desire to turn an avocation into a way of life. He describes falling in love and singing in piano bars until his big break in 1992, when a stunned Pavarotti heard him sing "Miserere." The international acclaim and success that have followed Bocelli ever since have done nothing to dull his sense of gratitude and wonder about the world. No classical music fan can afford to be without this engaging and humble memoir of a fascinating and triumphant star. ANDREA BOCELLI wrote this memoir himself on a special Braille computer, without a ghostwriter. He chose to tell his own life story through the eyes of a boy called Amos, a charming and unusual device characteristic of this modest man. Bocelli lives in Monte Carlo and summers in Tuscany.
I Have A Sister -- My Sister Is Deaf
by Jeanne Whitehouse PetersonA young deaf child who loves to run and jump and play is affectionately described by her older sister.
Joey Pigza Loses Control (Joey Pigza #2)
by Jack Gantos"He was wired. No dougbt about it... Now I know what Mom meant when she said he was like me, only bigger. " <P><P> Joey Pigza really wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, to show him he's not as wired as he used to be, to show his dad how much he loves him. But Carter Pigza's not an easy guy to love. He's eager to make it up to Joey for past wrongs and to show him how to be a winner, to take control of his life. With his coaching, Joey's even learned how to pitch a baseball, and he's good at it. The trouble is, Joey's dad thinks taking control means giving up the things that "keep Joey safe." And if he wants to please his dad, he's going to have to play by his rules, even when the rules don't make sense. <P><P> Newbery Medal Honor book
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (Joey Pigza #1)
by Jack GantosJoey Pigza can't sit still, he can't follow the rules, and he can't concentrate when his meds aren't working. He's had these problems since he was born, problems just like his dad and grandma have. And whether he's wreaking havoc on a class trip or swallowing his house key, Joey's problems are getting worse. In fact, his behavior is so off the wall that his teachers are threatening to send him to the special-ed center downtown. Joey knows he's really a good kid, but no matter how hard he tries to do the right thing, something always seems to go wrong. Will he ever get anything right? For older children.
Autobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition]
by Lucy Grealy”So many memoirs make you feel that you’ve been sealed up inside a wall with a monomaniac. A really good one, like Autobiography of a Face, makes you feel there is more to ask and learn. You are not just seeing the writer; you are not trying to see yourself. You are seeing the world in a different way.”—Margo JeffersonForeword by Suleika Jaouad, author of the New York Times bestseller Between Two KingdomsA thirtieth-anniversary edition of Lucy Grealy’s celebrated memoir, a timeless exploration of identity, loneliness, the nature of beauty, and strength.Thirty years ago, Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face launched the young writer into the top echelons of contemporary literature, winning her both acclaim and fame. An incandescent tale of perseverance, humor, and deep introspection in the face of emotional and physical pain, her powerful memoir—as evocative and resonant today as it was in 1994—speaks to us across time.At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a potentially terminal cancer, undergoing years of chemotherapy that destroyed a third of her jawbone. When she eventually returned to school, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures before she began to come to terms with her appearance. This beautiful and timeless memoir is a tale of great suffering and remarkable strength told without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Grealy reflects on how cancer transformed her face and her life, and captures what it was like as a child and a young adult to be torn between wanting to be loved for who we are and desperately wishing to be perfect.