Learners with Mild Disabilities: A Characteristics Approach - Softcover

Raymond, Eileen B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205200648 ISBN 13: 9780205200641

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

This text focuses on four high-prevalence disabilities: mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, ADHD, and behavioral disorders. It begins with the conventional categorical perspective, and then moves to the perspective of alternative, non-categorical frameworks.

Learners with Mild Disabilities focuses on students with disabilities with respect to their individual strengths and needs, considering their cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics. The reader is encouraged to apply these conceptual frameworks through analysis of the numerous vignettes and extended case studies ― stories which are drawn from the experiences of real children and teachers. The approach of this book emphasizes the complex nature of mild disabilities and provides an alternative to the notion that these are discrete disabilities.

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The students you teach.

With a clear focus on the nature and characteristics of students with the four most prevalent disabilities, this revision allows students and professors to concentrate on the issues that most commonly faced in a school setting. The text explores the cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics of students with Mild Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Emotional/Behavioral Disorders.

With real stories and cases, and additional resources on the web, this book provides students and teachers with a clearer understanding of the ways children with these disabilities present themselves in the classroom, provides strategies for use when teaching these individuals, and emphasizes the complex nature of mild disabilities.

“...I am impressed by (Learners with Mild Disabilities) “global view” and the reality of dealing with a cluster of issues around individuals with mild disabilities. This book begins with a realistic and promising premise that is useful from a functional educational perspective...the case studies and initial descriptions were superb and resulted in excellent discussions in my class.”
Bernard H. Graney, PhD, CRC, Springfield College

“...both undergraduate and graduate students find the text very user friendly and written at an appropriate intellectual level.”
Diane M. Gut, Ohio University

“I LOVED the BEST PRACTICES SECTIONS, they are a very nice addition to the text.”
Moniqueka E. Gold, Ed.D, Austin Peay State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0205200648
• ISBN 13: 9780205200641
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 427