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This guide gives educators facts about how students' medical conditions and their treatments directly affect their classroom behavior and learning ability. Drawing from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and IDEA 1997 amendments, the book provides tips and strategies for creat
What Successful Schools Do to Improve Student Achievement
Turn a good school into a great school with this invaluable guide. Discover the seven critical success factors that directly correlate with student achievement and get practical, real-world strategies for implementing them.
Social and Communication Intervention for Children with Autism
Children with autism pose a perplexing and inconsistent puzzle when it comes to their social skills and communication development. You need research-based techniques that will enable you to support the acquisition of these vital skills. In this guide, you'll get this and more as you apply the new state-of-the-art assessment tool to guide your ......
This book addresses the needs of older adults (age 45 and older) with developmental disabilities and adults with other lifelong disabilities who have similar needs. It discusses age-related and disability-related issues in community life.
This comprehensive resource offers an explanation of genetic mental retardation syndromes and how they affect behaviour. Four major syndromes - Down, Williams, Fragile X and Prader-Willi - and several lesser-known syndromes are covered.
Offers an overview of the communication, language, social, and behavioral issues characteristic of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This book offers guidelines for intervention designed for children with autism and their families. It is useful to speech-language pathologists, clinicians, early interventionists, psychologists, and educators.
A Phonological Awareness Program for Young Children
Presents an 11-week lesson program for helping kindergartners and first graders who need extra work on their early literacy skills. Each of the 44 15-20 minute lessons features three activities for children to do under the teacher's direction. Includes detailed scripted instructions and reproducible
Contains 10 days of activities linked to the popular storybook A Porcupine Named Fluffy. This module is part of an innovative, play-based curriculum for children 3-6 years of age that promotes general development and boosts cognitive, sensorimotor, communication/language, social, and emerging literacy skills.
Contains 10 days of activities linked to the popular storybook First Flight. This module is part of an innovative, play-based curriculum for children 3-6 years of age that promotes general development and boosts cognitive, sensorimotor, communication/language, social, and emerging literacy skills.
