Encyclopedia of Special Education, 4 Volume Set A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals

by Reynolds, Cecil R.; Vannest, Kimberly J.; Fletcher-Janzen, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9780470642160
• ISBN10: 0470642165
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-01-28
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

• The only encyclopedia or comprehensive reference devoted to special education
• Editors-In-Chief and Contributing Editors are leading researchers and scholars in the field
• New edition includes over 200 more entries than previous edition, with increased attention given to those topics that have grown in importance since the publication of the third edition, such as technology, service delivery policies, international issues, neuropsychology, and Response to Intervention, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Autism and Applied Behavior Analysis. In addition, the entries will be updated to cover the latest editions of the assessment instruments frequently administered in special education settings
• Includes an international list of authors and descriptions of special education in 35 countries
• Includes technology and legal updates to reflect a rapidly changing environment

4 Volumes

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118660584

Author Biography

Cecil R. Reynolds, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology, Professor of Neuroscience, and a Distinguished Research Scholar at Texas A&M University. He is the author or editor of more than three hundred books and articles, including the Handbook of School Psychology. He has also developed a number of psychological assessment instruments, including the RIAS (published by PAR) and the BASC (published by Pearson Clinical Assessments).

Kimberly J. Vannest, PhD, is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, a Regents Fellow, and Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Scholar and a Yates fellow at Texas A&M University. She has written or developed more than 80 scholarly products on intervention, progress monitoring, and single case design including peer-reviewed articles, books, and book chapter publications, software, free statistical calculators, and manuals. She has received the numerous awards for her research, teaching, and service.

Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, Ed.D., ABPdN, is Professor of School Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and has been a school psychologist in the public schools and neuropsychiatric inpatient settings for the past twenty-nine years. She has coedited and authored more than fifteen books and reference works.

Table of Contents

Editorial Staff, xxi

Contributors, xxiii

Preface to the Fourth Edition, xlv

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPECIAL EDUCATION ENTRIES

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