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Transition to Adulthood: Work, Community, and Educational Success - PRISM 11
The transition from high school to adulthood is challenging for many young people, and often particularly difficult for those with disabilities. Transition To Adulthood: Work, Community, and...
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Building Alliances: A How-to Manual to Support Transitioning Youth
Building Alliances presents the core principles and practices of collaboration that best support transition-aged youth with disabilities—and their families. Val Mazzotti and Dawn Rowe discuss the key...
When Behavior Makes Learning Hard: Positive Steps for Changing Student Behavior
Ultimately, the goal of any thoughtful behavior plan is to assist students in making changes in their behavioral development so they can access educational opportunities and become independent...
Getting Around Town: Teaching Community Mobility Skills to Students With Disabilities
Transition experts agree that learning to get around the community is one of the essential components of all school programs for students with disabilities regardless of the type or degree of...
School-Based Observation: A Practical Guide to Assessing Student Behavior
Widely used to assess social–emotional and behavioral referral concerns in grades PreK–12, systematic direct observation is an essential skill for school psychologists and other educators. This...
Demystifying Transition Assessment
Assessment is the cornerstone of every good transition plan. Now there’s a book that demystifies the what, when, why, and how of collecting transition assessment data—and using the results to help...
Teaching Behavior: Managing Classrooms Through Effective Instruction
Every teacher knows that the perfect lesson plan is useless without effective classroom management. But what’s the best way to foster student engagement, differentiate instruction, handle disruptive...
Understanding Students with Autism Through Art
Classroom educators at all levels have been presented with new challenges and opportunities by great increases in the number of students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This book...
Including Everyone: Creating Music Classrooms Where All Children Learn
Many practical books for music educators who work with special needs students focus on students’ disabilities, rather than on the inclusive classroom more generally. In Including Everyone , Judith...
Exceptional Music Pedagogy for Children with Exceptionalities
Exceptional Music Pedagogy offers readers in music education, music therapy, and music in special education communities a new, important, and globally-informed resource for effective music pedagogies...
Interventions for Disruptive Behaviors: Reducing Problems and Building Skills
Children and adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders struggle both in and outside the classroom. This book gives school practitioners vital tools for supporting students’ positive behavior as...
Visual Note-Taking for Educators
We’ve come a long way from teachers admonishing students to put away their drawings and take traditional long-form notes. Let’s be honest: note-taking is boring and it isn’t always the most effective...