A Standards-Based Guide to Practices in School and Community Settings
Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support's Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authorative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge professinals need to translate the principles and science ......
A playful look at the world of dyspraxia, explored through photographs of an array of animals, following in the best-selling footsteps of Kathy Hoopmanns Inside Aspergers Looking Out. It provides a perfect introduction to the condition for those recently diagnosed, highlighting the unique characteristics that make them special.
More than 100,000 school practitioners and teachers (K-12) have benefited from the step-by-step guidelines and practical tools in this influential go-to resource, now revised and expanded with six new chapters. The third edition presents effective ways to assess students' strengths and weaknesses, create supportive instructional environments, and ......
Teaching Students with Reading Difficulties, Grades K-6
Comprehensive and evidence-based, structured literacy (SL) approaches place a high value on explicit, systematic, and sequential instruction. This book brings together leading experts on key components of literacy to help K-6 teachers design and target SL interventions for particular student profiles. Chapters identify effective features of ......
This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area. The author explains the key role of sentence combining in the writing process and presents effective techniques for instruction and assessment. Numerous sample lessons, practice activities, planning tips, and ......
From executive skills experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare, the large-format academic planner that has helped thousands of students in grades 6-12 is now revised and updated. It provides an all-in-one resource for keeping track of assignments and due dates while developing the crucial executive skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. ......
What does a great paraprofessional need to know and do? You'll find real-world answers from two experts in the second edition of this bestselling guidebook. Passionate inclusion advocates Julie Causton and Kate MacLeod bring you a supremely practical guide to surviving and thriving as an integral part of your school's inclusive team. You'll get ......
How can you support both colleagues and families as they enhance their knowledge, develop new skills, and promote health development of young children? Coaching is the key - and the new edition of this bestselling guide is packed with even more practical tools to help early childhood professionals conduct skillful coaching.
Gifted Children with ADHD, ASD, and Other Dual Exceptionalities
Explaining why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, each chapter addresses the relevance for children with AD/HD and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how best to nurture individual needs, positive behaviour and relationships at home and at school.