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This book is written to help parents of special needs children understand and navigate the educational system. The book describes the various ways parents can be involved in planning and delivering a special education program for their child.

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This book is a valuable resource for all educators who seek to gain a better understanding of learning disabilities, effective classroom practices, and meeting the instructional, emotional, and social needs of struggling students.

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This book is a valuable resource for all educators who seek to gain a better understanding of learning disabilities, effective classroom practices, and meeting the instructional, emotional, and social needs of struggling students.

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Gifted students can exhibit extreme variance in both their abilities and their interests, yet they are often treated within schools as one homogeneous, specialized population. Personalized Learning in Gifted Education helps educators strengthen their differentiation of both instruction and services for advanced students.

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Open your students' minds to the wonders of philosophy with these exciting activities that can be used individually or by the whole class. Each activity appears in the discussion of a question40 questions in allthat will captivate the interests of young students.

Grades 4-12

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Drawing extensively from critical education theory, feminist perspective and the writings of community college insiders as well as from her three years of classroom research. Professor Herideen develops the concept of Critical Mainstreaming. This model is designed to maximize both critical thinking and career success for nontraditional students.

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This invaluable guide equips teachers and trainees with practical tips and strategies for teaching children with profound and multiple learning difficulties.

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The authors contend that reading would be learned in normative ways, were not some factor intervening in the learning processes that would naturally take place.

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This book provides an essential critical exploration of how disability is presently understood and responded to within the field of education. It forwards a human rightsfocused model of disability that mandates the amelioration of people with disabilities within education.

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This book provides an essential critical exploration of how disability is presently understood and responded to within the field of education. It forwards a human rightsfocused model of disability that mandates the amelioration of people with disabilities within education.

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Special educators are facing new challenges at the beginning of the 21st century as public education is being reformed by a vision focusing on measurable student outcomes. This work covers disability studies, school violence, and university-school collaboration.

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Special educators are facing new challenges at the beginning of the 21st century as public education is being reformed by a vision focusing on measurable student outcomes. This work covers disability studies, school violence, and university-school collaboration.

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After an opening section which summarizes the results of a national parent survey, there are separate chapters that profile home-based (family child care) models, public school-operated models, models operated in partnership between schools and other organizations, and community-based models.

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Here is a wealth of information to help you support children in your classroom who have serious illnesses or chronic conditions. Activity ideas, discussion questions, and lesson plans show you how to teach students about the illnesses and conditions.

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A well-crafted memoir of a young woman who spends two years teaching at the school at Aurukun in Cape York paints a colourful picture of life in a remote Aboriginal community in the sweltering tropics.

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This book addresses a very important subject: the relationship of bilingual education to power politics in the US from 1880 to the present. Of particular interest is discussion of the impact of Reagan appointees in the Department of Education on bilingual programs ...

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Social Skills Games and Activities for Kids With Autism provides complete instructions for using fun, engaging games and activities to teach social skills to children with autism spectrum disorders.

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This book merges the fields of individual differences, developmental psychology, and educational psychology with the field of gifted education for a complete overview of the social, emotional, and psychosocial development of gifted and talented individuals.

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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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The cases are designed to present an overview of the law from special education, where there is frequent litigation.

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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.