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Comparative special education is a topic rarely covered in research. This is a ground-breaking assessment of special education services for students with mild disabilities in eight Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, and Uruguay).

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Looks at the philosophical debates surrounding special educational needs and inclusion. This edition highlights the critical perspectives that philosophy can bring to bear on the education policy and provides a varied discussion of the issues. It aims to stimulate debate and to contribute to better informed educational initiatives.

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An introductory text for newly qualified teachers and trainee teachers and their mentors and tutors.

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Based on research in special needs carried out in primary schools, this text presents qualitative/quantitative data and deals with issues such as: effects of curriculum; how judgements are made; the impact of policies; role of local government; and emotional and behavioural difficulties.

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Special Populations in Gifted Education: Understanding Our Most Able Students From Diverse Backgrounds brings together the leading experts in the field, who combine both knowledge of and leadership experience with gifted students from diverse backgrounds.

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Designed for teachers wanting to know what to do to help pupils with spelling difficulties, this book combines practical advice with theory, research and accounts of the author's own experience. The author looks at how spelling skills develop in both young children and older pupils.

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Amidst bureaucracy and policy, the role of standards in the education of children with SEN can be lost. This book puts standards at centre stage, showing what is meant by standards, how they are measured, how they can be improved, and what pitfalls need to be avoided.

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There is always a good reason for a student's lack of success in school, and the four-component model presented in this work is intended to guide readers to a better understanding of lack of school success and what can be done about it.

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This innovative, technology-based resource provides those who teach gifted and advanced learners in grades 58 with quality, research-based, online lessons, tools, and insights.

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The updated second edition of Suicide Among Gifted Children and Adolescents explores the suicidal behavior of students with gifts and talents. It provides the reader with a coherent picture of what suicidal behavior is; clarifies what is known and what is unknown about it; shares two major theories of suicide with explanatory power; and offe

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Get the minds of bright kids jump-started with these exciting, motivational brain challenges. This unique book offers teachers and parents a fun collection of activitieslogic puzzles, riddles, optical illusions, math mysteries, and thought provokersthat will pique students' curiosity to the limit.

Grades 4-10

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A practical handbook packed with tips, techniques and suggestions for all those working and living with learning disabled children aged 3-19.

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The education of children with multiple disabilities is concerned with improving their quality of life and finding ways to overcome barriers to learning. This book addresses the growing needs of professionals in a variety of educational settings, and provides a practical support framework for children, professionals and parents.

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Children with SLI are a challenging yet stimulating group to work with. This book offers information, guidance, and examples of good practice to teachers, learning assistants, and parents. Included is a motor skills programme, rhymes for speech production and memory work, and a photocopiable word bank.

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The majority of deaf children are taught in the mainstream system, but are much more likely to under-achieve at school than their hearing counterparts. This is a guide to working with deaf students in a variety of educational settings.

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"Talent development is a phrase often used in reference to the education of gifted children. Recently, it has been presented by researchers to refer to a specific approach to the delivery of gifted education services.

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The lives of Black girls have far too frequently been used to support assertions regarding their alleged deviance and pathology.

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The goal of this book is to provide teachers with the theoretical and practical information needed to meet the daily challenge of individualizing instruction for gifted and talented students with different learning styles in regular classrooms.

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The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage first and second graders to read independently. The book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books.

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From the pages of Teaching for High Potential, a quarterly publication of the National Association for Gifted Children, this collection of articles is sure to be of use to any educator of high-ability students.Topics included range from instructional methods across all content areas, including tips and tools for reading and vocabulary instru

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Contains an array of entries dealing with various aspects of managing behaviour, from minor classroom incidents to full scale riots. Each letter in this work contains one detailed entry and several shorter ones, ranging from assertiveness to boredom, to self-esteem and warnings.