Educating Students with Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder Book 3: Essential Skills and Frameworks

Educating Students with Intellectual Disability and Autism Disorder is a comprehensive resource, providing educators with the most up-to-date information on what works in real classrooms with real students. Essential Skills and Frameworks, the third book in the series, addresses the prerequisites for beginning to develop, assess, and teach curriculum and skills, and focuses on how a personally relevant curriculum can make instruction meaningful. The authors cover a range of topics, from augmentative and alternative communication to the foundations of student behavior, social interactions and communication, student self-determination, and supporting students with more complex needs and multiple disabilities.

• Chapter 1: Communication and Expression
• Chapter 2: Behavior
• Chapter 3: Socialization
• Chapter 4: Self-Determination
• Chapter 5: Multiple Disabilities and Health Impairments

Jordan C. Shurr

Jordan C. Shurr is Associate Professor of Special Education at Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. Previously, he has worked as a special education teacher, assistive technology consultant, and camp inclusion coordinator. Jordan’s research interests include the profession of teaching students with significant disabilities as well as supporting meaningful access to the academic curriculum. In addition to teaching and research related to education, he enjoys spending time outdoors with his family.   

Bree A. Jimenez

Bree A. Jimenez is a special education research consultant with Mater Dei School, New South Wales, Australia and Honorary Associate in Special Education with the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. Her most recent research focuses on the use of teacher-directed professional development, including mentoring and coaching within the school environment, to support the implementation of research- and evidence-based strategies for students with intellectual disability and autism.

Emily C. Bouck

Emily C. Bouck is Professor of Special Education at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Her research interests surround the effect of educational programming on outcomes for students with disabilities, specifically helping students with disabilities by providing effective mathematics and functional curricula in both school and post-school contexts. Dr. Bouck is the co-author of the CEC publication Footsteps Toward the Future: Implementing a Real-World Curriculum for Students With Developmental Disabilities.