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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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What Really Works With Exceptional Learners
Teachers in today’s classrooms work with a diverse group of students, including many who have special education needs, and are often pressed to know a little something about everything. In What Really...
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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...
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English Language Learners: Differentiating Between Language Acquisition and Learning Disabilities
This unique guide for special education teachers, teachers of English language learners, and other practitioners provides the foundational information needed to determine whether the language...
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...
Start With the Heart
Start with the heart to build a school climate in which achievement will flourish. You can build an empathetic school culture that promotes genuine acceptance of one another, an appreciation for...
Educating Students with Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder Book 2: Foundational Concepts for Leadership and Collaboration
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...
Using the National Gifted Education Standards for Teacher Preparation
Standards have benefits particular to the field of gifted education. In order to ensure equity and systematic talent search and programming, it is essential that current and future teachers are...
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...
Using the National Gifted Education Standards for Pre-K–Grade 12 Professional Development (2nd ed.)
National teacher preparation standards in gifted and talented education provide the foundation for research-based practices in gifted education and identify what teachers should know and be able to do...
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...