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Joseph A. Dimino, Ph.D., has had experience as a general education teacher, special education teacher, administrator, behavior consultant, and researcher. He has extensive experience working with teachers, parents, administrators, and instructional assistants in the areas of early literacy, reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction, and ......
Postsecondary Education Options for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
Uncovers the big picture of postsecondary options and reveals how to support students with disabilities before, during, and after a successful transition to college. This book features vignettes and first-person narratives from students and families that underscore the benefits and challenges of PSE.
Improving Outcomes for Babies in the Child Welfare System
Explores the needs of children in the child welfare system and offers ways to get them back on track. This book includes topics such as the history of child welfare advocacy, research and laws, legal advocacy, health care advocacy, early intervention advocacy, early childhood education advocacy, and future directions.
Suitable for assessment developers, researchers, policy makers, special education directors, and students in graduate-level courses in both special education and assessment, this book offers an investigation of the challenges, successes, and key components of assessing alternate achievement standards.
Intends to help students develop a greater awareness of the relationships among phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Primarily for classroom teachers of students grades 3 through 8, this book features activities, jokes, and riddles to increase students' metaphonological and phonological awareness.
Through a historical presentation of the relation of English phonics to spelling, writing, and reading, this book brings to teachers and reading researchers insights into the importance of phonics in education over several centuries.
A guide for professionals working with children with special needs in early childhood and ECSE settings who exhibit challenging behavior. It discusses behavior in terms of culturally-based practices and how to use Skilled Dialogue to implement positive intervention and behavior support from both a developmental and cultural viewpoint.
Understanding the Research on Mathematical Learning Disabilities
Written from the perspectives of a clinical psychologist and a middle school teacher, this book discusses normal math cognition, typical math learning difficulties, severe mathematical disability, and the math deficits of students with better-known learning disorders. It also features guidelines for assessing math learning problems.
Presents an overview of the research and practice of state-funded pre-k programs with implications for future program development and planning. This book captures the information related to both the nature of preschool education and the challenges of implementing preschool education at the state level.
