Life Beyond the Classroom: Transition Strategies for Young People With Disabilities

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This comprehensive textbook addresses the transition from school to work and community for young adults with disabilities (mental, physical, cognitive, hearing, visual, and emotional). It identifies the responsibilities young adults take on for employment, post-secondary education, maintaining a home, involvement in the community, money management, and social relationships. It shows how teachers and others can help to plan for the transition and provide support for the young adult. This new edition includes updated material on self-determination, high stakes accountability, assistive technology, finding jobs, and application for youth with autism spectrum disorders.

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Useful book, well-written. - C. Calkins -
Definitive and current, well-written, an easy read. Wish this book had a bit more on transition for gifted LD kids. Other than that, it was exactly what I needed and was useful in my coursework - much more useful than my professor alone.Life Beyond the Classroom: Transition Strategies for Young People With Disabilities

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Teaching Adolescents With Disabilities:: Accessing the General Education Curriculum

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Tap into this comprehensive guide to research-validated practices and interventions that break down the barriers to academic success for secondary school students with disabilities.

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What Every Teacher Should Know About: Transition and IDEA 2004

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This brief book advances a new vision of transition as a unifying framework for post-secondary planning for youth.  Using side-by-side frameworks, it explains the connections between transition services and standards-based education, as well as the connections between IDEA 2004 and the No Child Left Behind Act.  The book provides an introduction to the new Summary of Performance (SOP) that is required by every school district for all youth with disabilities who have IEPs, and presents a first of its kind template for a nationally ratified SOP available to state and local educational agencies.

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Good Little Book - Orvin C. Jenks - Riverton, WY
This a book that all teachers (sped and regular) should have. It does not take long to read, is full of pertinent information.

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Learning Disabilities: The Interaction of Learner, Task, and Setting (4th Edition)

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This fourth edition examines the characteristics of individuals with learning disabilities and how their success is mediated by the demands and attitudes of their families and school environments. The book takes an ecological perspective on learning disabilities. A focus on multicultural diversity issues is included in special sections throughout. It is written in a readable style with many anecdotes and over 45 personal vignettes contributed by individuals with learning disabilities, their parents, teachers, and psychologists. Topics to this new edition include: the concept of learning disabilities; causes of learning disabilities; task and setting contributors; academic development; social-emotional development; assessment; and more. Educators of students with learning disabilities.

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Evidence Based Practices for Educating Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

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This new text for Emotional and Behavioral Disorder Methods courses aids its readers to become the most effective teachers of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). The authors demonstrate how using only evidence-based educational practices will enable students with emotional and behavioral disorders to succeed in the classroom, becoming the best version of themselves. The text is a “how-to” for future teachers on planning, organizing, delivering individualized academic and behavior programming, and collecting data on their student’s actual performance in the classroom  to inform their future teaching and classroom decisions, all for the benefit of the EBD students they are privileged to teach.

Highlights of this First Edition...

• An overview of the foundations of the field of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders equips students with the necessary background of the disorders to prepare them for the remaining content in the text and the experiences they will encounter in their future classrooms and work with EBD students.  Content coverage in this section includes: the characteristics of students with EBD, assessment, the law, applied behavior analysis, positive behavior support, cognitive behavioral intentions, and social skills training.
• Coverage of what it means to use evidence-based practices and strategies for behavior managementwill help readers understand and learn to implement these techniques for classroom success.
• Discussion of the best academic interventions for students with EBD helps readers review the principles of effective instruction and gain knowledge of the most current research in the field of EBD. The authors emphasize the underlying focus of how important it is for teachers to plan instruction and to collect individual data for monitoring each students’ progress in the classroom.
• Throughout the text, readers will learn how the law affects and influences teaching strategy, aiding reader understanding  that implementing only the best classroom practices, strategies, and procedures supported by current research is mandated by legislation, specifically No Child Left Behind and the Individuals with Disabilities Act.
  

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Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level

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From one of the world’s leading experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book yet to help us understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plague American children today. For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels—and for their parents, teachers, and tutors—this book can make a difference.
Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs—many of them in her own laboratory—Dr. Shaywitz demystifies the subject of reading difficulties and explains how a child can be helped to become a good reader. She discusses early diagnosis in young children as well as the diagnosing of older children, young adults, and adults. Dr. Shaywitz explains why some bright adults can read only very slowly, and what they can do about it. Her book makes clear how the latest research, including new brain imaging studies, is uncovering the mechanisms underlying dyslexia and has led to effective treatments for each age group.

Dr. Shaywitz instructs parents in what they can do year-by-year, grade-by-grade, step-by-step for a dyslexic child. She lays out a home program for enhanced reading; guides parents in choosing the best school for their child and in working with teachers; and suggests ways of raising and preserving the child’s self-esteem. She provides exercises, teaching aids, information on computer programs, and many other invaluable resources.
In addition, her book corrects such popular (and harmful) myths as the belief that dyslexia is primarily a male problem, that children with dyslexia see words backward, that dyslexia is linked to intelligence. She shows us how, although dyslexia cannot be outgrown, its effects can, with careful planning and hard work, be overcome.
Dr. Shaywitz lifts the barrier of ignorance surrounding dyslexia and replaces it with the comfort of knowledge. Here is a trusted source to which you can turn for information, advice, guidance, and explanation. In sum, here is cutting-edge research translated into an easy-to-follow plan of action offering help—and hope—to all who have reading problems, and their families.

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Amazing book - Cinda Walker - Havelock, NC USA
Whether you have a child with dyslexia or not this book opens your eyes to anyone with the problem. It shows the biological basis of the problem, the signs of dyslexia in children, suggesting how early to get help and the best practices to help your child. The book tells of even college students and amazing adults who are successful despite having dyslexia.

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