Special Education category: 3739 books
Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society
A Life in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
This book chronicles the professional life of a career-long, inclusive educator in New York City through eight different stages in special and general education. Developing a new approach to research as part of qualitative methodology, David J. Connor merges the academic genre of autoethnography with...
Guerrilla Mum
Surviving the Special Educational Needs Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Getting the educational provision you need for your special needs child can feel like an uphill struggle. This book offers clear guidance on how authorities such as Local Education Authorities, schools, the National Health Service and the Government function, what the law entitles your child to, and...
Complete IEP Guide, The
How to Advocate for Your Special Ed Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Put the law on your child's side
Federal law guarantees every child a free, appropriate education, and the goal of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) is to assure that every child with special needs receives what the law promises. But if you have a special ed child, you know that your...
Passing the Special Education TExES Exam
Keys to Certification and Exceptional Learners
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Gain confidence, lower stress, and raise your TExES exam scores!
In this artful guide, TExES test prep veteran Elaine Wilmore breaks down the EC-12 and Supplemental special education test so you can feel calm and confident on test day. Built on her successful test-prep training seminars,...
by Georganne S. Schroth-Cavataio, Jennifer C. Booker Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
The definitive guide for mentoring special education teachers
The national shortage and high attrition rate of special education teachers are impediments to serving students with special needs. This book helps meet an essential need for attracting, retaining, and supporting special educators....
Speds (Special Education Students)
An Inside View and Experiences of Educational Systems by a Sped
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This book is comprised of many of my teaching experiences with the SPEDs like me. The experiences I had as a Special Education teacher are from four different states and regions in the country. All having different ideas as to how a student with disabilities, should be taught and how they learn. Youd...
Unifying Educational Systems
Leadership and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Unifying Educational Systems encourages leaders to move beyond the traditional forms and rituals of leadership for special education that are caught within traditional definitions of a continuum of services. Grounded in public policy debates, research on teaching and learning, and an emerging consensus...
Interdisciplinary Connections to Special Education
Important Aspects to Consider
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This two-part volume addresses the specific area of interdisciplinary connections within special education research. Special education has transformed as a result of legislation, new trends and current research investigations. Currently, there is no comprehensive resource that effectively covers these...
Special and Gifted Education
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Diverse learners with exceptional needs require a specialized curriculum that will help them to develop socially and intellectually in a way that traditional pedagogical practice is unable to fulfill. As educational technologies and theoretical approaches to learning continue to advance, so do the...
Toward a Theology of Special Education
Integrating Faith and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Professor, mentor, author, disability advocate, seminar leader around the worldDr. David Anderson corralled his many talents and worldwide experiences to author this important book. The volume should prove invaluable to Christians concerned about disabilities, especially teachers. Without flinching,...
Special Educational Needs and the Internet
Issues for the Inclusive Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
With Internet access for every school now a reality, teachers are beginning to explore the use of the Internet in the education of children with special needs. This book describes its benefits for children across the spectrum of special educational needs, from those with physical disabilities or sensory...
An Emerging Approach for Education and Care
Implementing a Worldwide Classification of Functioning and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
An Emerging Approach for Education and Care provides a synthesis of the extensive research that has been conducted worldwide about the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth in education and care. The main purpose of the ICF is to provide a classification...
Exceptional People
Lessons Learned from Special Education Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Exceptional People: Lessons Learned from Special Education Survivors is a unique work that describes disabled (exceptional) students’ and their parents’ perspectives as they journeyed through the education system. For educators, it provides a window to the souls of the children whose lives they...
Special Educational Needs for Qualified and Trainee Teachers
A practical guide to the new changes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This completely revised and updated edition, previously published as Special Educational Needs for NQTs and TAs, addresses the latest Teachers’ Standards, and their application in meeting the most recent developments and changes in the special educational needs system and the new SEN Code of Practice.
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