Special Education category: 3739 books
Sign Language, Sustainable Development, and Equal Opportunities
Envisioning the Future for Deaf Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Increased interaction between sign language communities and the mainstream societies in which they function is creating the potential for greater equality of opportunity for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. In this volume, renowned scholars and policy makers from around the world present innovative...
Making It Work
Educating the Blind/Visually Impaired Student in the Regular School
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
“Making It Work is destined to be the definitive guide for years to come on how to make the regular school education a successful experience for blind/visually impaired children. With chapters flowing logically and full of detailed, useful information, it will be an essential handbook for school...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1990
This collection of papers presents ideas and research that helps to find a link between the retarded child's educational setting and the onset of delinquency. The first section presents the impacts of the judicial system on the mentally retarded offender, and researcher attempts to find a relationship...
Children With Handicaps
A Review of Behavioral Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Psychological research on children with mental and physical handicaps began two hundred years ago. Its major development awaited the maturation of psychology as an empirical science and of social movements for child welfare and education. This book is a record of the research accomplished in the 1980s....
by Dr. Dhananjoy Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
The purpose of writing this book is strictly utilitarian. Lesson plan has got its own significance in the process of professional preparation alongwith the professional practices. The role of lesson-plan is unavoidable for effective and efficient teaching outcomes.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The Routledge Companion to Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties is a timely and rich resource with contributions from writing teams of acknowledged experts providing a balance of both academic and practitioner perspectives.
The book covers a myriad of topics and themes and has...
by Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell, Lana Collet-Klingenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores education issues for people with disabilities and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Support staff in schools are increasingly recognised as playing an important, though often undefined, role in inclusive education. While there has been some research on how best to work with support staff, this book provides readers with a comprehensive examination of roles and responsibilities within...
Promoting Social Inclusion
Co-Creating Environments That Foster Equity and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
This volume in the International Perspectives on Inclusive Education Series explores innovative perspectives and practices regarding social inclusion of potentially marginalized individuals from multiple perspectives.
This book blends theoretical and evidence-based research about social inclusion...
Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost
A Memoir of Hampshire College at the Twilight of the '80s
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Richard Rushfield takes us on an unforgettable and hilarious trip through higher alternative education in the eighties.
Don't Follow Me, I'm Lost is a strange and salacious memoir about life at the ultimate New England hippie college at the height of Reaganomics. Opening its doors in 1970,...
Dumbing Down America
The War on Our Nation's Brightest Young Minds (And What We Can Do to Fight Back)
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
At a time when the U.S. education system consistently lags behind its international peers, Dumbing Down America shows exactly why America can't keep up by providing a critical look at the nation's schools through the eyes of the children whose minds are languishing in countless classrooms. Filled...
Homeschooling Pros and Cons: Understand the Facts of Homeschooling and Make Learning Interesting
Curriculum & Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The easiest way to compare the benefits and drawbacks of homeschooling your child, and learning new methods of making homeschooling interesting!
Homeschooling can be a huge step for many families to take. Help prepare yourself to take this step by understanding the pros and cons of homeschooling...
Outdoor Classrooms
A Handbook for School Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Outdoor Classrooms is ideal for teachers and home educators who want to incorporate outdoor education at all levels of the school curriculum, with an emphasis on setting up vegetable gardens, teaching children about growing food, economic concerns, human and planetary health and future sustainability....
Alchemy of the Soul
An African-centered Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author’s life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experiences, was to start an African-centered school. The dream in the night ignited the journey that led to this book, which was to discover answers to critical...