Used – Teaching Individuals with Physical or Multiple Disabilities

ISBN: 013159012X

Author: Best, Sherwood

Condition: Used

Comprehensive and unique, this text provides special educators and others education professionals with the knowledge and strategies for creating meaningful educational experiences for students with physical, health, or multiple disabilities. It is the only text published that specifically addresses the educational and psychosocial needs of students with physical or health impairments who do not necessarily have cognitive disabilities and explains the psychosocial impact of disability including those disabilities that are degenerative and terminal in nature. It teaches key knowledge and strategies for creating meaningful educational experiences for students with physical, health, or multiple disabilities and illustrates how assessment and curriculum accommodations and modifications support students with physical or multiple disabilities to reach their highest potential.New to this Edition! NEW! Features a completely redesigned model for planning and designing courses of study for students with disabilities that is aligned with core academic curriculum - found in the chapter on curricular options (Ch. 5) and modeled throughout the text. Familiarizes readers with the theory on which text coverage is based and gives them a structure on which to hang current and future knowledge. NEW! Includes the most updated information on federal legislation - Summarizes the key aspects of NCLB and IDEA (Ch. 1) Describes mandated assessment and appropriate accommodations and modifications. NEW! Redesigned transition content (Ch. 12) - emphasizes self-determination as a guiding factor developing student outcomes. NEW! Photos and illustrations throughout the text - Created specifically for this text, with enhanced chapter opening photos. Enhance the narrative throughout and the uniqueness of the text overall.

• The four-part structure is conducive to teaching the course in a variety of ways-helping all instructors to teach in the way that best suits their particular course. | Part I explains key definitions, legal requirements, and specific physical disabilities and health impairments; Part II describes accommodations for curricular access including assistive technology and augmentative/alternative communication; Part III examines specialized essential skill areas; and Part IV assists teachers how to implement core academic curriculum. | A strong emphasis throughout on collaboration among teachers, service professionals and families-introducing the currently-advocated model of collaborative service delivery to students of the course. | Defines similarities and differences among such professionals as teachers, social workers, counselors, therapists, and others when working in the range of classrooms (self-contained to inclusive) as well as hospital and home settings. | Focus on the Net features at the end of every chapter have been updated-Provide students with current Website and Internet addresses relevant to chapter content, ideal for assignments, discussion topics, and for self-study. | Encourages readers to use technology and the Web to extend their knowledge of current issues and developments in the field | Information on appropriate software and functional academic skills - In every chapter in Part IV. | Helps readers understand the potential of computers to bolster accessibility of school curriculum and offers guidelines for using computer technology to add meaning to content area studies. | Separate chapters on assistive technology (AT) and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)-Describes the legal mandates for AT devices and services, the AT assessment process, and the application of