What Every Teacher Should Know About Students With Special Needs: Promoting Success in the Classroom

by Pierangelo, Roger; Giuliani, George A.

• ISBN13: 9780878224678
• ISBN10: 087822467X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Research Pr Pub

Summary

This practical manual presents educators with positive interventions for helping special education students succeed in school.

Each chapter contains useful and tested classroom management strategies that are designed to meet the needs of all children with disabilities as they face academic, social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.

Content Areas
-- Learning Disabilities
-- ADHD
-- Emotional Disabilities
-- Speech/Language Disorders
-- Hearing Impairments
-- Visual Impairments
-- Orthopedic Disabilities and Other Health Impairments
-- Traumatic Brain Injury
-- Developmental Disabilities
-- Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders
-- Gifted Children

The authors provide helpful information on each targeted area, such as definition, incidence, characteristics, guidelines for assessment, and educational implications. They also discuss parent-teacher conference considerations and include a listing of useful references and national organizations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
Learning Disabilities	13	(14)
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder	27	(14)
Emotional Disabilities	41	(12)
Speech and Language Disorders	53	(10)
Hearing Impariments	63	(8)
Visual Impariments	71	(12)
Orthopedic and Other Health Impairments	83	(14)
Traumatic Brain Injury	97	(10)
Developmental Disabilities	107	(14)
Pervasive Development Disorders/Autism	121	(10)
Giftedness	131	(8)
About the Authors	139