Young Children with Special Needs

by Hooper, Stephen; Umansky, Warren

• ISBN13: 9780131590144
• ISBN10: 0131590146
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Providing in-depth treatment of early childhood special education, this edited book offers broad-based coverage of all aspects of special education for the young from a theoretical-developmental perspective. The authors provide an exceptionally thorough discussion of how children develop and what can go wrong while giving future special education teachers a solid "knowledge-content-applications" approach from which to teach children with special needs from birth to 5 years old.Significant attention is paid to core issues-special education's historical foundations, the growth and development of the discipline, working with families, assessment and intervention, and the use of technology.For future special education teachers.

Table of Contents

Foundations

Introduction to Young Children with Special Needs

A Rationale for Early Childhood Special Education

The Early Interventionist

Young Children with Special Needs and Their Families

The Family and the Community

Typical Development and Factors Affecting Development

Definitional Issues and Processes

Typical Development

Factors Affecting Development

Developmental Domains

Gross Motor Development

Theoretical Models of Gross Motor Development

Stages of Gross Motor Development

Factors Affecting Gross Motor Development

Gross Motor Development in Young Children with Special Needs

Specific Strategies for Assessment of Gross Motor Functioning

Instructional Methods and Strategies for Intervention

Technology in Intervention

Fine-Motor, Oral Motor, and Self-Care Development

Theoretical Models of Fine-Motor, Oral Motor, and Self-Care Development

Stages of Development

Factors Affecting Development

Fine-Motor, Oral Motor, and Self-Care Development in Young Children with Special Needs

Specific Strategies for Assessment

Instructional Methods and Strategies for Intervention

Technology in Assessment and Intervention

Cognitive Development

The Range of Cognitive Skills

Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

Piaget's Stages of Development

Other Theories of Development

Relationships Between Development and Cognitive Processing Models

Factors that Affect Cognitive Development

Cognitive Development and the Child with Special Needs

Strategies for Assessment of Cognitive Development

Facilitating Cognitive Development

Technology in Assessment and Intervention

Communication Development

Definitional Issues

Theoretical Models

Factors Affecting Communication Development

Specific Strategies for Assessment of Communication Functioning

Instructional Methods and Strategies for Intervention

Technology

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