Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors: A Guide to Intervention and Classroom Management - Softcover

Mather, Nancy; Goldstein, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155766935X ISBN 13: 9781557669353

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co, 2008

Synopsis

This is the ideal textbook for teaching pre-service educators and specialists to understand how specific developmental, behavior, and academic problems influence school success.The authors identify 10 building blocks important to learning success, divided into 3 levels: foundational, symbolic, and conceptual. Educators complete the questionnaire to identify a student's strengths and limitations. Corresponding chapters then provide educators with the research and information they need to understand the issues, cultivate the student's strengths, address weaker areas, and develop appropriate accommodations and instructional interventions. They get effective intervention strategies both to improve outcomes for individual students and to ensure successful classroom management. This guide is also flexible enough to be used as a classroom resource; busy teachers can complete the questionnaire for individual students and then immediately turn to the appropriate chapters to get the information and strategies they need to help the student succeed.This new edition includes additional information about school environment and elementary grades, and emotional issues are examined separately from behavioral issues.

About this title

Review:

"Absolutely fabulous . . . identifies many issues that we face today in our challenging and evolving society, AND gives solutions." --Armen Demirchyan

About the Author:

Nancy Mather is Professor, Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and School Psychology, University of Arizona. Sam Goldstein is Faculty, Psychiatry Department, University of Utah School of Medicine, Staff, University Neuropsychiatric Institute, and a psychiatrist in private practice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 155766935X
• ISBN 13: 9781557669353
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 488