Embracing Disabilities in the Classroom

Embracing Disabilities in the Classroom
Author: Toby J. Karten
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1510700951

How we treat others often influences how individuals feel about themselves. This book illustrates how educators can effectively promote sensitive, inclusive classroom practices that maximize success for students with disabilities. Embracing Disabilities in the Classroom provides content-rich interdisciplinary lessons accompanied by behavioral, academic, and social interventions that capitalize on student strengths. Inclusion expert Toby J. Karten demonstrates the impact of literature, self-advocacy, role playing, and strategic interventions on students' growth and achievement. The numerous lessons, tables, rubrics, instructional guidelines, and charts help readers: • Determine effective strategies for differentiating instruction for specific disabilities • Modify lessons and curriculum appropriately in the content areas • Encourage students to become active participants in learning • Increase disability awareness and foster inclusive mind-sets in students, colleagues, and families This practical resource provides special education and general education teachers, principals, and teacher leaders with both effective instructional strategies for curriculum delivery and responsive approaches to promoting positive attitudes toward disabilities. Given appropriate support and an accepting environment, all students are able to achieve, thrive, and succeed in school and in life!

Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom

Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom
Author: Susan Baglieri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-04-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317283325

Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom is a core textbook that integrates knowledge and practice from the fields of disability studies and special education. The second edition has been fully revised and updated throughout to include stronger connections between race, class, sexual orientation, gender, and disability to emphasize intersecting identities and experiences; stronger emphasis on curriculum and teaching rather than on attitudes toward disability; and updates to current events, cultural references, resources, research literature, laws, and policies.

Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities

Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities
Author: Margo Izzo
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781598577358

Dare to Dream discusses critical topics for young people with hidden disabilties, such as self-advocating, developing positive relationships with mentors, planning for college, successful working life, interpersonal skills, and satisfying relationships.

Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom

Disability Studies and the Inclusive Classroom
Author: Susan Baglieri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415993725

This work's mission is to integrate the fields of disability studies and inclusive education. It focuses on the broad, foundational topics that comprise disability studies (culture, language, history, etc.) and moves into the more practical topics normally associated with inclusive education.

Undoing Ableism

Undoing Ableism
Author: Susan Baglieri
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-08-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351002848

Undoing Ableism is a sourcebook for teaching about disability and anti-ableism in K–12 classrooms. Conceptually grounded in disability studies, critical pedagogy, and social justice education, this book provides both a rationale as well as strategies for broad-based inquiries that allow students to examine social and cultural foundations of oppression, learn to disrupt ableism, and position themselves as agents of social change. Using an interactive style, the book provides tools teachers can use to facilitate authentic dialogues with students about constructed meanings of disability, the nature of belongingness, and the creation of inclusive communities.

Neurodiversity in the Classroom

Neurodiversity in the Classroom
Author: Thomas Armstrong
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416614834

This book by best-selling author Thomas Armstrong offers classroom strategies for ensuring the academic success of students in five special-needs categories: learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, intellectual disabilities, and emotional and behavioral disorders.

Embracing Extraordinary

Embracing Extraordinary
Author: Alan Andrew
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781690870357

Leading The Way (LTW) is the research arm of the Next Frontier Inclusion (NFI) dedicated to current topics of inclusion arising in international schools. Annually, NFI chooses topics raised by member schools and invites professionals from our network to share expertise in the area of focus to come together to study, and collaboratively craft monographs that help schools explore best practices on the topic. This monograph was developed by a group of nine professionals with expertise and experience developing programs for students with intellectual disabilities in member international schools. We offer special thanks to the International School of Brussels who hosted this work.

Disability as Diversity

Disability as Diversity
Author: Lisa M. Meeks
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2020-06-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030461874

Administrators and faculty in medical, nursing and health science programs are witnessing a substantial increase in the number of students with disabilities entering their programs. Concurrently, the benefits of diversity in healthcare are becoming increasingly apparent and important. Provider-patient concordance is a known mechanism for reducing health care disparities. By developing a workforce that mirrors the patient population, we can appropriately inform disability care, reducing health care disparities while embracing the tenets of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), namely equal opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency for qualified individuals with disabilities. One in five individuals will experience disability at some point in their lives, making this the largest minority in the US. A commitment to disability inclusion for qualified students should be a high-level goal of nursing, medical, and other health science programs. To support this goal, leaders in these areas must develop robust programs and an understanding of the best practices for inclusion. This first-of-its-kind title is designed to help deans, program directors, faculty, student affairs personnel and disability resource professionals thoughtfully plan for the growing population of health-care professionals with disabilities. The content helps stakeholders contextualize disability inclusion in health-care education as a function of social justice and a mechanism of reducing health care disparities for patients. It offers pragmatic advice, grounded in research, best practice, and case law to address the highly nuanced approach to determining and implementing accommodations in a high-stakes clinical environment. Disability as Diversity connects the moving parts necessary to ensure equal access for qualified students and provides a blueprint for crafting policy, proactive messaging, improving climate, adhering to accreditation standards, addressing licensing and board exams, responding to student failure, all while remaining compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and applicable Federal regulations. This text provides educators with the perspectives and skills they need to bring disability inclusion to the forefront of health education.

Completely Emme

Completely Emme
Author: Justine Green
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735255828

"Completely Emme" is a story about a little girl who learns to stand up for herself when others point out her differences. She teaches the children an important lesson about compassion and acceptance. This is the second book of Dr. Justine Green's award-winning series "Completely Me"