Instructional Strategies for Students With Mild, Moderate, and Severe Intellectual Disability
Instructional Strategies for Students With Mild, Moderate, and Severe Intellectual Disability

Author: Richard M. Gargiulo

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2017-01-20

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1506306659

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Strategies for Students with Mild, Moderate, and Severe Intellectual Disabilities is a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in special and general education teacher preparation programs (as well as practicing professionals) offering a solid, research based text on instructional methodologies for teaching students with intellectual disability across the spectrum of intellectual abilities. The book addresses both academic and functional curricula in addition to behavioral interventions. Additionally, Instructional Strategies for Students Mild, Moderate, and Severe Intellectual Disability adopts developmental or life span approach covering preschool through adolescence and young adulthood.

Academic Instruction for Students With Moderate and Severe Intellectual Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms
Academic Instruction for Students With Moderate and Severe Intellectual Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms

Author: June Downing

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2010-03-09

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 141297142X

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While most resources for inclusive education focus on teaching students with mild to moderate disabilities, teachers of students with more severe disabilities need specific methods to provide the individualized and systematic instruction necessary to support students in inclusive environments. This unique book meets that need with approaches, information, and ideas for teachers of students with moderate to severe disabilities in general education classrooms. June E. Downing draws from a strong research base to provide practical instructional strategies, plus suggestions based on personal experience. Featuring tables and figures, chapter summaries, photographs, multiple examples, and strategies that address the how-to of instruction, this resource helps general and special education teachers: - Adapt their curriculum to meet both individual student needs and state standards for core curriculum - Work collaboratively with other teachers - Develop assessments that accurately determine student needs - Keep track of student progress through data collection Essential for today's inclusive classrooms, this guide covers everything teachers need to know to provide individualized instruction and assessment for their students with significant intellectual disabilities.

Teaching Strategies for Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities
Teaching Strategies for Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities

Author: Mary Anne Prater

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13:

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Centered on the most recent, scientifically-based practices, Teaching Strategies for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities, 1/e, comprehensively details everything that pre-service teachers need to effectively teach students with mild to moderate disabilities. This text includes not only empirically validated instructional strategies, but an array of relevant topics, such as the application of technology to the field and implications for changing demographics within U.S. schools. Each chapter in the book follows a pattern of instruction, by providing key topics, key questions, scenarios, "Technology Spotlights," teacher tips, summary statements, and review questions. This consistency in format throughout the text helps facilitate learning for both instructor and student. Each chapter also includes the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) standards that are addressed within the chapter, helping instructors align course content to accreditation standards.

Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities
Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

Author: Diane M. Browder

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2020-01-22

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1462542425

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For years the text of choice for developing excellence as a teacher of K–12 students with moderate and severe disabilities, this clearly written work has now been revised and updated. Chapters provide step-by-step procedures for designing standards-based individualized education plans and evaluating and enhancing student progress. Methods and materials for teaching literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies are described in depth. The book also describes effective ways to build functional daily living skills. User-friendly features include extensive vignettes and classroom examples, end-of-chapter application exercises, and reproducible planning and assessment tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition *Reflects important advances in research and evidence-based practice. *Chapter on collaborating with culturally diverse families, plus a stronger multicultural focus throughout. *Chapter on writing instruction. *Two additional chapters on reading and math, ensuring coverage of both foundational and grade-aligned skills. *Increased attention to students with autism spectrum disorder and to uses of technology.

Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities
Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

Author: Lucy C. Martin

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2008-12-19

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 145229612X

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"I wish I had this book when I started teaching! Every teacher starts out with an empty bag of tricks; it is nice to peek into someone′s bag!" —Nicole Guyon, Special Education Teacher Westerly School Department, Cranston, RI Classroom-tested strategies that help students with learning disabilities succeed! Teachers are often challenged to help students with learning disabilities reach their full academic potential. Written with humor and empathy, this engaging book offers a straightforward approach to skillful teaching of students with learning disabilities. Developed for K–12 general and special education classrooms, this resource draws on the author′s 30 years of teaching experience to help teachers gain a greater understanding of students′ learning differences and meet individual needs. Strategies are organized by skills—including reading, writing, math, organization, attention, and test-taking—helping teachers quickly identify the best techniques for assisting each student and encouraging independent learning. Readers will find: More than 100 practical strategies, interventions, and activities that build students′ academic abilities Recommendations on appropriate accommodations, assessment techniques, and family communication Support for complying with recent federal mandates related to learning disabilities, including the ADA, Section 504, and the reauthorization of IDEA 2004 Helpful guidance and stories from the author′s own classroom experiences Ready-to-use tools, forms, and guides Discover innovative, easy-to-implement teaching methods that overcome barriers to learning and help students with special needs thrive in your classroom.

Moderate and Severe Disabilities
Moderate and Severe Disabilities

Author: Belva C. Collins

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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For undergraduate and graduate courses in Moderate and Severe Disabilities. Moderate and Severe Disabilities: A Foundational Approach is an exciting new text that provides a strong foundation for students, teachers, families, and service providers who work with persons with moderate and severe disabilities. Readers will review classic articles that provide a foundation for best practices, describes the evolution of practices over time, and demonstrates how best practices are built on a strong research base. Activities and performance-based assessments throughout the text allow the reader to demonstrate understanding of key concepts, appropriate programming, and issues that affect the lives of persons with moderate and severe disabilities. Topics covered in the text include inclusive practices in the school and community, curricular and functional assessment, the relationship of functional skills to general education core content, systematic instruction, longitudinal transition, self-determination, and basic human rights. An overview of the best practices for working with persons who have moderate and severe disabilities, this cimprehensive book encourages readers to develop their own appreciation for these individuals, and demonstrates how to effectively collaborate with educators, families, and professionals in a variety of settings.

Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability
Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability

Author: Michael L. Wehmeyer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 731

ISBN-13: 1317566238

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The Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability provides an integrated, transdisciplinary overview of research-based practices for teaching students with intellectual disability. This comprehensive volume emphasizes education across life stages, from early intervention in schools through the transition to adulthood, and highlights major educational and support needs of children and youth with intellectual disability. The implications of history, recent research, and existing information are positioned to systematically advance new practices and explore promising possibilities in the field. Driven by the collaboration of accomplished, nationally recognized professionals of varied approaches and philosophies, the book emphasizes practices that have been shown to be effective through multiple methodologies, so as to help readers select interventions based on the evidence of their effectiveness.