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How to Facilitate Work Experiences for Youth in Transition
Offers a practical, research-based framework for secondary special education and transition professionals to develop, monitor, and support work experiences necessary for school-to-work transition for youth with disabilities. This book shows how work should and can be more than an afterthought to curriculum.
Offers students and professionals information for developing and improving the quality of early childhood special education. This book focuses on implementation of early childhood education systems. It provides suggestions for setting up a family and child friendly system for evaluating young children.
Offers early interventionists information on the proper development of young children as well as risk factors and environmental circumstances that can hinder a child's development. This book covers prenatal and perinatal periods; and early detection and identification of developmental delays or disorders, and diseases.
Guides educators in the use of technology, or more specifically, universal design for learning in secondary education for students with disabilities, supporting both their inclusion in general education classrooms and achievement of academic goals as well as their transition to adult life.
Offers tools that give K-12 education professionals the complete picture of a child's social-emotional strengths and risk behaviors in school (SSBS-2) and in the community (HCSBS). This work provides a way to identify children with problem behaviors, target classroom interventions and develop IEPs, and measure the effectiveness of interventions.
Working Across Disciplines to Support Infants, Young Children, and Their Families
Suitable for EI professionals, this work shows how to collaborate with other service providers to address the complex needs of infants with multiple disabilities. It offers guidance on addressing early communication development, sensory processing, vision, and hearing and infusing interdisciplinary interventions into the child's daily routine.
Focuses on youth with autism. This title discusses how considerations for transition are different for young adults with autism and presents strategies for planning.
Itinerant special educators can be much more than ""tutors"" for young children with special needs. They can transform whole classrooms and help inclusion flourish. This is the book that every itinerant early childhood special educator has been waiting for, the first one that takes the guesswork out of their jobs.
A norm-referenced communication assessment tool, this work focuses specifically on measuring young children's motor control and identifying impairments that may lead to a speech delay or disorder.