Teaching individuals with physical or multiple disabilities
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Teaching individuals with physical or multiple disabilities
Pearson, c2010
6th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
PART I
Impact and Implications of Physical, Health, and Multiple Disabilities
CHAPTER 1
Understanding Individuals with Physical, Health, and Multiple Disabilities
CHAPTER 2
Physical Disabilities
CHAPTER 3
Cerebral Palsy
CHAPTER 4
Health Impairments and Congenital Infections
PART II
Curriculum Options and Avenues of Performance Improvement
CHAPTER 5
Curriculum and Individualized Educational Planning
CHAPTER 6
Task and Situation Analysis
CHAPTER 7
Assistive Technology
CHAPTER 8
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
PART III
Essential Knowledge and Skill Domains
for Personal Self-Reliance
CHAPTER 9
Feeding and Swallowing
CHAPTER 10
Adaptations for Personal Independence
CHAPTER 11
Adaptations in Physical Education, Leisure Education, and Recreation
CHAPTER 12
Self-Determination and Education for Transition
PART IV
Core Curriculum
CHAPTER 13
Reading Instruction and Adaptations
CHAPTER 14
Writing Instruction and Adaptations
CHAPTER 15
Science and Social Studies Instruction and Adaptations
CHAPTER 16
Mathematics Instruction and Adaptations
Name Index
Subject Index
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