Using the Building Blocks Model to Guide Intervention and Classroom Management
Update of the popular textbook showing educators how to effectively address variations in children's environments, abilities, needs, behaviors, and learning styles to ensure better outcomes for students who struggle.
How to Prepare for Every Stage of Your Child's Life
Written with compassion and expertise, this book provides families with a guide to planning for the lifetime needs of a child with disabilities. It presents the 'Five Factors' readers need to consider - family and support, emotional, financial, legal, and government benefits - and how to plan for these factors at every stage of a child's life.
Dr Mal Leicester is the Emeritus Professor of Adult Learning and Teaching in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. She was previously Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Warwick. She has been a secondary school teacher and has worked as Avon's Advisor for Multicultural Education. Mal has personal ......
Examines the experience of disability in relation to theories of human growth and development. The book provides a foundational and comprehensive examination of disability that encompasses the intellectual, psychiatric, physical, and social arenas.
A compassionate guide for coping with sudden hearing loss that offers support, treatment insights, and stories of hope. Sudden hearing loss can strike anyone at any time, leaving individuals and their loved ones grappling with confusion, fear, and isolation. In this comprehensive and compassionate guide, Carly Sygrove, Andrea Simonson, and ......
How to Make Behaving Positively Possible for People with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Bo Hejlskov Elv+¬n is a Clinical Psychologist based in Sweden. He is an independent consultant and lecturer on autism and challenging behaviour, and an accredited Studio III trainer. In 2009, he was awarded the Puzzle Piece of the Year prize by the Swedish Autism Society for his lecturing and counselling on challenging behaviour.
Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs
This work gives parents of children from age three through young adulthood proven strategies for teaching children the life skills they'll need to live as independently as possible. It covers getting ready, self-help, toilet training, play, self-care, home care, and information gathering skills.
The Moss-PAS-(Diag ID) has been designed to meet the particular problems of assessment in people with intellectual disabilities, but is equally valid for use with the general population.