Exceptional Lives : Special Education in Today's Schools

by Ann P. Turnbull

• ISBN13: 9780024216014
• ISBN10: 0024216011
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

Summary

This best-selling volume is widely recognized for its innovation and accessibility: it equips the reader with principles, values, and practices that support teaching the majority of students with disabilities within the scope of general education programs. The authors showcase real students with real disabilities--letting their stories illustrate, as nothing else could, the challenges faced by people with exceptionalities, and the myriad factors those working with them must consider when making decisions about how, where, and what to teach. Through four engaging themes--universal design for learning, inclusion, collaboration, and multicultural awareness--this book explores the processes necessary for using ¿best practices¿ to achieve the goals set forth by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997. Packaged with a CD-ROM that contains more than an hour of actual classroom footage, this book actually puts the reader ¿in the classroom.¿ This engaging book addresses general learning disabilities, emotional or behavioral disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, giftedness, mental retardation, severe and multiple disabilities, autism, physical disabilities, traumatic brain injury, communication disorders, hearing loss, and visual impairments. For special education educators, curriculum planners, therapists, school administration employees, and parents of children with special needs.

Table of Contents

Overview of Today's Special Education	p. 2
Implementing IDEA's Principles	p. 40
Special Education Today: Inclusion and Collaboration	p. 72
Learning Disabilities	p. 104
Emotional or Behavioral Disorders	p. 144
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder	p. 180
Giftedness	p. 222
Mental Retardation	p. 260
Severe and Multiple Disabilities	p. 300
Autism	p. 336
Other Health Impairments	p. 368
Physical Disabilities	p. 404
Traumatic Brain Injury	p. 438
Communication Disorders	p. 480
Hearing Loss	p. 516
Blindness and Low Vision	p. 556
Glossary	p. 597
References	p. 605
Name Index	p. 641
Subject Index	p. 653
Photo Credits	p. 673
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