Special Education

Guides readers through the design, administration, and interpretation of dyslexia assessments.

Provides insights into the laws, regulations, processes, culturally and contextually relevant practices, and requirements that practitioners need to follow when engaged in assessment, and an overview of current and time-tested assessment tools designed for use by early childhood educators when evaluating young children with developmental challenges.

A compilation of theoretical background and concrete approaches designed to increase understanding and outline strategies to support autistic children and young people who experience anxiety in the school environment.

Intro to sensory needs of all students and staff within the school environment, with standards, audit tools, strategies, and a sensory curriculum for students.

Provides info on how to effectively implement special education programs and exams issues, from developing & implementing individual education programs (IEPs) that confer a free appropriate public education, Section 504, least restrictive environment (LRE), and successfully collaborating with parents, to issues regarding accountability, staffing, bullying, early childhood special education, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), evidence-based practices, transition, discipline, and the school-to-prison pipeline.

Provides theories, frameworks, and more to support educators in using socio-culturally sustaining practices, curricula, and instruction through an intersectional lens.

Brings together leading experts to present data-based individualization (DBI), a systematic approach to providing intensive intervention which is applicable to reading, math, and behavior.

Through powerful narratives of parents of Black and Latinx students with disabilities, this book provides a unique look at the relationship between disability, race, urban space, and market-driven educational policies.

Chapters on both social and emotional learning (SEL) research and practice.

Explores how High Leverage Practices can be applied to the education of students with extensive support needs (ESN).

Offers High Leverage Practices focused primarily on Tiers 1 & 2.

Each chapter focuses on a specific High Leverage Practice with explanations of its purpose and essential components, accompanied by examples for use with small groups of students or the individual student.

Improves teachers' understanding of Antisocial Orientation (AO) including the pathology, assessment, biological & sociological factors, and treatments for youth with AO. Also, classroom strategies, interventions, and modifications to the school environment to foster prosocial orientation.

Discusses the challenges of educating students with emotional disabilities in general education classrooms, and provides recommendations.

Provides cross-categorical, practical, research-based strategies for collaborative teaching in general education classrooms. An emphasis on behavior management and student engagement responds to the two most significant inclusion teaching hurdles. Also describes how racial and cultural diversity impacts student identification and placement.

Foremost LD experts identify effective principles of assessment and instruction within the framework of multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). With a focus on what works in the classroom, the book explores the full range of reading, mathematics, and writing disabilities.

Identifies and analyzes important yet insufficiently explored moral issues in k-12 special education.

Makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire, because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species's inventiveness. However, these abilities exact a great cost on autistic people, including social and often medical challenges.

Shows how High Leverage Practices can work in tandem with evidence-based practices (EBPs). .

Examines the preventive and remedial powers of consultation for indirectly supporting the needs of youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), through collaborating with their parents and educators.

Children who struggle with processing sensory input can experience a wide range of symptoms, including hypersensitivity to sound, sight and touch, poor fine motor skills and easy distractibility. Helps teachers to better support and understand their students and their sensory needs.

"provides a thorough examination of the basic concept of special education, a discussion of specific exceptionalities, and constructive responses to common criticisms of special education."

Focuses on implementation of evidence-based interventions, strategies, and practices. Includes case studies, as well as step-by-step directions for conducting Functional Behavior Assessments (FBA), developing Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP), and monitoring student progress.

Analyzes the process of leaving school, commonly referred to as 'transition' for young adults with severe, complex, and multiple disabilities. Includes case narratives from the US and New Zealand.

Offers information that can be applied to improve the outcomes of students with dyslexia or who struggle learning to read.