Special Education category: 3739 books
Reading for Gifted Students
The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Gifted readers, like other gifted students, need challenging opportunities that enable them to learn something new each day. Because gifted readers are those who read at least 2 years ahead of their chronological grade placement, teachers must effectively differentiate for these students in the classroom....
Defining Critical Animal Studies
An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation as a social justice movement...
Controversial Therapies for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
Fad, Fashion, and Science in Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
One of the largest and most complex human services systems in history has evolved to address the needs of people with autism and intellectual disabilities, yet important questions remain for many professionals, administrators, and parents. What approaches to early intervention, education, treatment,...
Autism Believe in the Future
From Infancy to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Ann Millan shares the story of how she helped her daughter, Robin, move past the many challenges of severe autism in AutismBelieve in the Future. Her first goal was simple; she wanted to stop the screaming, running, and self-injurious behaviors that her daughter exhibited. For ten years, Ann was told...
The SEND Code of Practice 0-25 Years
Policy, Provision and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Considering it for your course reading list? Lecturers can order their e-inspection copy here today!
How have you found the changes brought about by the new SEND Code of Practice: 0-25 years (2014)?
This book is the ultimate guide to making sure that you are not only meeting the...
by Neil Mars
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
The world is changing rapidly, as well as the way we think and live. Meanwhile, while changes occur in the way we read, communicate and interact, absolutely nothing evolved regarding the educational system. Students are showing much less interest and motivation to learn nowadays, and we tend to attribute...
Understanding Dyscalculia and Numeracy Difficulties
A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty that affects the acquisition of numerical skills. A far larger number of pupils, while not dyscalculic, fail to acquire the basic numerical skills required for everyday life.
Whatever the cause of poor numeracy it is essential that these difficulties...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
What are today's best interventions for supporting language acquisition and literacy for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH)? This comprehensive textbook-and-DVD set brings the answers to life for tomorrow's speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educators. The newest addition to...
Speed Reading In Only One Hour (or Less)
How to Double Your Reading Speed in One Hour or Less
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
You Are Moments Away From Doubling or Tripling Your Reading Speed!
The Accelerated Computerized Book Reading Program makes you read faster.
If you can read faster you can:
- spend less time studying and worrying
- read 3 or 4 magazines instead of 1 or 2...
Teaching with Tenderness
Toward an Embodied Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Imagine a classroom that explores the twinned ideas of embodied teaching and a pedagogy of tenderness. Becky Thompson envisions such a curriculum--and a way of being--that promises to bring about a sea change in education.
Teaching with Tenderness follows in the tradition of bell hooks's Teaching...
Young, Triumphant, and Black
Overcoming the Tyranny of Segregated Minds in Desegregated Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Many educators struggle to meet the needs of gifted Black students because they know little about their experiences at school and at home. What are the experiences of gifted Blacks in desegregated predominantly White schools? How do gifted Black students survive and thrive in de facto segregated Black...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Once considered disruptive to learning, technology has increasingly become an integrated and valued part of the modern classroom. In particular, mobile technologies provide the ability to encourage evocative student learning through new experiences. Promoting Active Learning through the Integration of...
Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning
The Project-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning provides a blueprint of how teachers and their students can engage in science learning that mirrors the way science is practiced. It is written for K–16 science educators as well as those in the informal science education sector. The framework for this book...
Redefining English for the More Able
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Redefining English for the More Able is a practical guide offering English teachers a range of strategies to stretch and challenge their students. Written by Ian Warwick, founder of London Gifted and Talented, and Ray Speakman, this book provides a fresh perspective on the purpose of English teaching...