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Paperback. Condition: Good. Going to College provides counsellors, educators, and administrators with a comprehensive review of best practices, program guidelines, materials, and strategies to help students with disabilities gain admission to (and complete) secondary education programs.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This completely revised and updated new edition explains how to create a successful team of teachers, school staff members, and families to ensure that the needs of individual students with disabilities are met. The authors describe ways to build teamwork skills, develop problem-solving methods, implement action plans, define collaborative teaching, and improve communication skills among members. Collaborative Teaming is part of a five-book set designed to help teachers quickly and effectively implement inclusive practices. These practical, easy-to-read guides summarize current research and outline field-tested techniques. Each book includes photocopiable forms and discussions of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation procedures for elementary, middle, and secondary schools. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Universal Design for Learning is the best way to teach all students effectively?but how can a busy teacher get started with UDL right now? Answers are in this vibrant, research-based guidebook, created by seasoned teacher and former UDL Coordinator Loui Lord Nelson. K-12 educators will learn how to use the three key principles of UDL?Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression?to present information in multiple ways and meet the needs of diverse learners. Written in first person, like a face-to-face talk with a passionate educator, the book gives teachers a reader-friendly UDL primer and a practical framework for implementation, with detailed guidelines on lesson planning and checkpoints that help them stay on track.USE UDL PRINCIPLES TO HELP STUDENTS:sharpen executive function skills, such as goal-setting and strategy developmentimprove comprehension and information processingstay engaged during lessons and overcome distractionscommunicate effectively using multiple tools, including both high and low/no technology optionsdevelop self-regulation and self-assessment skillssustain effort and persistenceincrease autonomyshow what they know through flexible, individualized assessment optionsPRACTICAL MATERIALS:Diverse examples of successfully using UDL across grades, sample assignments and activity ideas, and helpful tips and personal reflections from teachers and administrators. Posey M.Ed., Allison (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Universal Design for Learning is the best way to teach all students effectively?but how can a busy teacher get started with UDL right now? Answers are in this vibrant, research-based guidebook, created by seasoned teacher and former UDL Coordinator Loui Lord Nelson. K-12 educators will learn how to use the three key principles of UDL?Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression?to present information in multiple ways and meet the needs of diverse learners. Written in first person, like a face-to-face talk with a passionate educator, the book gives teachers a reader-friendly UDL primer and a practical framework for implementation, with detailed guidelines on lesson planning and checkpoints that help them stay on track.USE UDL PRINCIPLES TO HELP STUDENTS:sharpen executive function skills, such as goal-setting and strategy developmentimprove comprehension and information processingstay engaged during lessons and overcome distractionscommunicate effectively using multiple tools, including both high and low/no technology optionsdevelop self-regulation and self-assessment skillssustain effort and persistenceincrease autonomyshow what they know through flexible, individualized assessment optionsPRACTICAL MATERIALS:Diverse examples of successfully using UDL across grades, sample assignments and activity ideas, and helpful tips and personal reflections from teachers and administrators. Posey M.Ed., Allison (illustrator). …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Provides philosophical and practical information to enhance inclusive, competitive employment opportunities for people with disabilities. This book serves to empower those with disabilities by providing an overview of the philosophies, practices, tools, and policies for developing and implementing community-based employment programs.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Shows teachers how to use scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in their everyday classroom instruction and improve their students' literacy outcomes. This book helps educators see the benefits of instruction based on research - and use it skillfully in classrooms to make their students better readers.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Imprint. The second edition of this ultra-practical resource helps both students and practising professionals in the human services fields to be more focused and fulfilled in the work they do.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Imprint. The second edition of this ultra-practical resource helps both students and practising professionals in the human services fields to be more focused and fulfilled in the work they do.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. This nontechnical and absorbing text describes how the interactive process of "learning to listen" provides practical alternatives to overly controlling behavior modification techniques. Written for support and other service providers working with people with intellectual disabilities, this book includes compelling and detailed case studies that illustrate possible positive approaches and reveal how people with disabilities can take control of their lives.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. This nontechnical and absorbing text describes how the interactive process of "learning to listen" provides practical alternatives to overly controlling behavior modification techniques. Written for support and other service providers working with people with intellectual disabilities, this book includes compelling and detailed case studies that illustrate possible positive approaches and reveal how people with disabilities can take control of their lives.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Technology holds great promise for helping students with autism learn, communicate, and function effectively in the modern world. Start leveraging that power today with this forward-thinking book, your in-depth guided tour of technologies that support learners with autism and help them fully participate in their classroom and community.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Shows home visitors how to build trust, communicate respect, and maintain boundaries with families. This title helps to make home visits successful by developing specific communication and interpersonal skills. It also helps to understand the stages of typical child development.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Shows home visitors how to build trust, communicate respect, and maintain boundaries with families. This title helps to make home visits successful by developing specific communication and interpersonal skills. It also helps to understand the stages of typical child development.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This volume offers specific teaching strategies for helping students learn self-monitoring, self-evaluation, picture cues, self-instruction, problem solving and other student-directed learning strategies.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Each year hundreds of thousands of children in the United States experience trauma - such as abuse, neglect, or community violence - that creates tough obstacles to academic achievement and social success. Now there's a practical, strategy-filled book that shows educators how to reach and teach students exposed to trauma. Through clear and readable explanations of current research and enlightening vignettes, educators will understand how violence and other forms of trauma affect the key elements of a child's school and social success, including behavior, attention, memory, and language.Then they'll find dozens of simple, creative ideas - easy to use in any classroom, on any budget - that show them how to: adapt instruction to address the learning characteristics of children exposed to trauma; help students develop the most important skills they need to succeed in school; use positive behavior supports so children can stay calm and focused on learning; build meaningful, appropriate, and supportive teacher-student relationships; encourage positive peer relationships through cooperative games, group projects, and buddy systems; provide predictable routines that instill a sense of safety and control; avoid burnout and reduce the effects of 'compassion fatigue'; and, integrate a trauma-sensitive perspective across an entire school. Throughout this book, realistic sample scenarios demonstrate how teachers can make the strategies work in their classroom, and challenging What Would You Do? quizzes sharpen educators' instincts so they can respond skillfully in difficult situations.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Drawing upon their years of research and personal experience, contributors to this text provide educators with useful guidelines on teaching language arts, math, and science to students with significant disabilities. Unlike other, more theoretical volumes, this book offers practical suggestions for providing access to the general curriculum. Some of the best known researchers in curriculum and instruction, including Debby Houston, Michael Wehmeyer, June Downing, Terri Ward, Belva Collins, Claudia Flowers, Karena Cooper-Duffy and Jacqui Kearns, weigh in on this important subject. Geared toward primary and secondary school teachers, this book focuses on what to teach and how to teach. Moreover, it describes how to address academic content standards.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 500 entries for parents and professionals! The best A-Z reference available on autism spectrum disorders and pervasive developmental disorders, this comprehensive encyclopedia includes more than 500 terms, alphabetically listed and clearly described. Today's most respected autism experts have contributed essential terminology from various disciplines - including pediatrics, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, education, psychology, and psychiatry - to bring you reliable information onclassification systems signs and symptoms causes incidence and prevalence diagnosis screening and assessment interventions behavioreducation assistive technologydaily livingmedical issueslegislation Synonyms and relevant cross-references are included for the terms, and the two appendixes describe assessment tools and curricula and list autism-related study centers and organizations. Every professional whose work involves autism spectrum disorders needs a copy of this essential resource-to keep on hand as a daily reference and to share with parents of children who have these complex disorders.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Each year hundreds of thousands of children in the United States experience trauma - such as abuse, neglect, or community violence - that creates tough obstacles to academic achievement and social success. Now there's a practical, strategy-filled book that shows educators how to reach and teach students exposed to trauma. Through clear and readable explanations of current research and enlightening vignettes, educators will understand how violence and other forms of trauma affect the key elements of a child's school and social success, including behavior, attention, memory, and language.Then they'll find dozens of simple, creative ideas - easy to use in any classroom, on any budget - that show them how to: adapt instruction to address the learning characteristics of children exposed to trauma; help students develop the most important skills they need to succeed in school; use positive behavior supports so children can stay calm and focused on learning; build meaningful, appropriate, and supportive teacher-student relationships; encourage positive peer relationships through cooperative games, group projects, and buddy systems; provide predictable routines that instill a sense of safety and control; avoid burnout and reduce the effects of 'compassion fatigue'; and, integrate a trauma-sensitive perspective across an entire school. Throughout this book, realistic sample scenarios demonstrate how teachers can make the strategies work in their classroom, and challenging What Would You Do? quizzes sharpen educators' instincts so they can respond skillfully in difficult situations.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Based on research gathered for the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development, vignettes of some 70 young children from diverse backgrounds reveal the importance of early parent-child and teacher- child interactions and children's kindergarten language and literacy skills.…