Choosing Outcomes & Accommodations for Children

Choosing Outcomes & Accommodations for Children
Author: Michael F. Giangreco
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781598571875

COACH is better than ever! Now with practical updates based on user feedback and a new streamlined format for easier use, the third edition of this bestselling guide can be the key to effective educational planning for students with intensive special education needs in inclusion-oriented schools. Based on 25 years of field-testing and widely used by thousands of education teams, COACH is the educational planning choice for students ages 3-21 in supported general education settings. Retaining the core elements of the popular previous editions, this revised edition organizes planning into a clear step-by-step process that has never been easier to implement. Professionals and families will have an effective process to help them collaborate on individualized educational plans that promote inclusive opportunities for students with a range of developmental disabilities. Education teams will discover how to implement a collaborative and family-centered approach to teamwork explore the current and future status of valued life outcomes identify appropriate curriculum areas to assess rate and select high-priority learning outcomes to be targets of instruction determine which aspects of the general education curriculum should be targets of instruction choose the supports students need to reach their goals develop meaningful annual goals and short-term objectives that reflect each student's individual priorities create a program-at-a-glance that keeps critical information handy throughout the school day COACH comes with the essential materials educators need to engage in collaborative educational planning. Ready-to-use, fillable forms and tools--now on CD-ROM for easy access--help educators organize goals and objectives, determine their students' learning styles, schedule class activities, plan and adapt instruction, evaluate the impact of instruction on student outcomes, and more. To model successful COACH implementation, this book also walks readers through three complete examples of the COACH process for a kindergartner, an elementary school student, and a transition-age teenager. With this streamlined planning process, educators and families will ensure that each student's education plan has real substance, addresses individual goals, and leads directly to positive, meaningful outcomes. What's New CD-ROM with fillable electronic versions of the forms, plus examples and supplemental materials Updated introductory information establishing a contemporary context for the use of COACH Increased focus on access to the general education curriculum Streamlined COACH process for easier implementation Reorganized descriptions and directions Updated and simplified student record forms Information about COACH and alternate assessment A tool to assist teams in clarifying their respective roles

Choosing Outcomes and Accommodations for Children

Choosing Outcomes and Accommodations for Children
Author: Michael F. Giangreco
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781557663238

Substantially revised in response to research and feedback, the second edition of this popular planning tool is more user friendly and family oriented than ever. Organized into two parts, it's even easier to use - with redesigned forms, detailed explanations, explicit instructions, "helpful hints" for each step, and tabs and icons for pinpointing information. The established and field-tested methods of this practical edition make it easy for general and special educators, related services providers, school administrators, and parents to collaborate and work toward developing a meaningful IEP for each student.

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
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2017-01-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506306659

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.

Teaching Everyone

Teaching Everyone
Author: Whitney H. Rapp
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781598572124

Aligned with CEC Initial Content Standards, Teaching Everyone is a core text that fully prepares teachers to see past disability labels and work with all children's individual needs and strengths. Includes teaching strategies for all major academic content areas.

A Parents' Guide to Special Education for Children with Visual Impairments

A Parents' Guide to Special Education for Children with Visual Impairments
Author: Susan LaVenture
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0891288929

This handbook for parents, family members and caregivers of children with visual impairments explains special education services that these children are likely to need and to which they are entitled--and how to ensure that they receive them. Edited and written by experienced parents and professionals, this helpful and easy to use resource addresses the effect of visual impairment on a child's ability to learn and the services and educational programming that are essential for them to get the best education possible. Chapters address early intervention, assessment, different types of services, IEPs, accommodations and adaptations, different types of placements, children with other disabilities in addition to visual impairment, and negotiation and advocacy.

Caring for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Their Families

Caring for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Their Families
Author: Claudia Maria Vargas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2004-09-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135626596

Children with neurodevelopmental disabilities such as mental retardation or autism present multiple challenges to their families, health care providers, and teachers. Professionals consulted by desperate parents often see the problems from their own angle only and diagnosis and intervention efforts wind up fragmented and ineffective. This book presents a model multidisciplinary approach to care--family-centered and collaborative--that has proven effective in practice. A pillar of the approach is recognition of the importance of performing culturally competent assessment and adjusting service delivery so that is responsive to cultural differences. Detailed case stories illuminate the ways in which the approach can help children with different backgrounds and different disabilities. Most chapters include study questions, lists of resources, and glossaries to facilitate easy comprehension by professionals with different backgrounds--in special education, communication sciences, and disorders, clinical and counseling psychology, neuropsychology and psychiatry, social work, pediatrics--and program administrators as well as students, trainees and educated parents. Caring for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Their Families constitutes a crucial new resource for all those professionally and personally concerned with these children.

Occupational Therapy Models for Intervention with Children and Families

Occupational Therapy Models for Intervention with Children and Families
Author: Sandra Dunbar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2024-06-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1040143156

Occupational Therapy Models for Intervention with Children and Families explores recent theoretical models that enable occupational therapists to practice and interact with families in a more holistic and occupation-centered manner. This comprehensive and dynamic text offers the latest information on viewing the broader contexts of environment and family in order to meet diverse occupational needs in a range of settings. Sandra Barker Dunbar presents a variety of case scenarios that feature culturally diverse populations and varying diagnoses of children with occupational needs. With contributions from 11 renowned leaders in occupational therapy, this comprehensive text is designed to increase awareness and understanding of theoretical models and their relationship to current occupational therapy practice with today’s children and families. Inside Occupational Therapy Models for Intervention with Children and Families, traditional frames of reference in pediatric practice are explored, including sensory integration and neurodevelopmental treatment. Some current theoretical models discussed include the Model of Human Occupation, the Person-Environment-Occupation model, the Ecology of Human Performance model, and the Occupational Adaptation model. The new Occupational Therapy Practice Framework is incorporated throughout the text. Employing a practical approach to this significant aspect of pediatric practice in occupational therapy, Occupational Therapy Models for Intervention with Children and Families is an invaluable tool for students at all curriculum levels.

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2007-08-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0080552129

Autism Spectrum Disorder is one of the most researched and popular topics in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and special education. In the last 30 years the amount of new information on assessment and treatment has been astounding. The field has moved from a point where many considered the condition untreatable to the current position that it may be curable in some cases and that all persons with this condition can benefit from treatment. Intervening with school age children continues to be a major focus of assessment or intervention. However, expanding the ages of those receiving more attention from younger children to older adults, is becoming more prevalent. The consensus is that intensive treatment at the earliest recognized age is critical and that many adults evince symptoms of the disorder and warrant care.The field is full of many proposed treatments many of which offer promise but no data. Thus, a book on evidence-based assessments and interventions, across the life span should be of value in helping to sort out the more credible interventions as defined by the research and what methods have the best support. Given the popularity of the topic and the vst array of potential assessments and teratments available, this volume will be aimed at delineating what the researchers have shown has the best evidence to support particular methods.International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is now available online at ScienceDirect — full-text online of volumes 23 onwards. Elsevier book series on ScienceDirect gives multiple users throughout an institution simultaneous online access to an important compliment to primary research. Digital delivery ensures users reliable, 24-hour access to the latest peer-reviewed content. The Elsevier book series are compiled and written by the most highly regarded authors in their fields and are selected from across the globe using Elsevier's extensive researcher network. For more information about the Elsevier Book Series on ScienceDirect Program, please visit:http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/bookseries/

Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs

Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs
Author: Vicki A. McGinley
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2017-01-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1506316018

Parents and Families of Students With Special Needs: Collaborating Across the Age Span teaches students the skills they need to effectively collaborate with parents and families to ensure a child′s success in the classroom. The text takes a lifespan approach with a special emphasis on the critical transition points in a child’s life. Information is provided on what can be seen at each stage of an individual with disabilities’ development, and addresses the concerns and needs that families may have during these unique phases of growth. The authors provide an in-depth discussion of how parents and families are affected by particular disabilities, family system theory, the laws that affect individuals with disabilities, and assessments for individuals with disabilities. Chapters written by academics and professionals who are also parents of students with special needs bring a diverse range of voices into the narrative.