Education and Study aids / Special Education

Meeting SEN in the Curriculum: Design & Technology

by Louise Davies

All teachers are meeting more pupils with special needs in mainstream classrooms. Although there are general issues to be aware of subject specialists will always want specific guidance and examples. This series...

Meeting SEN in the Curriculum: Art

by Kim Earle

This book includes: Exciting art projects that will engage and challenge pupils; Making sure that space and materials are accessible to all; Advice on how to resolve behavioural issues.

Meeting SEN in the Curriculum: Maths

by Brian Sharp

Teachers are meeting more pupils with special needs in mainstream classrooms and although there are general issues to be aware of, subject specialists will always want specific guidance and examples. This series...

Understanding and Teaching the ICT National Curriculum

by Franc Potter

There is still great uncertainty in the teaching profession regarding the effective delivery of ICT. This introductory book provides both trainee and practising teachers with a clear understanding of the ICT...

The Art of Positive Communication

by Rob Long

Good communication between teachers and pupils, and between pupils themselves, helps to build a good learning environment where all pupils can achieve. This book covers key communication issues including:

• forming...

Numeracy and Learning Difficulties: Approaches to Teaching and Assessment

by Peter Westwood

By understanding why children struggle with maths, teachers are better equipped to provide effective support and nurture confidence in low-achievers.

Numeracy and Learning Difficulties includes how to tackle...

The Nature of Learning Disabilities: Critical Elements of Diagnosis and Classification

by Kenneth A. Kavale & Steven R. Forness

The category of learning disabilities continues to be among the most contentious in special education. Much of the debate and dissent emanates from a lack of understanding about its basic nature. The failure...

Investigations in Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics

by Fay Windsor, M. Louise Kelly & Nigel Hewlett

Investigations in Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics is a sequel to the eighth meeting of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, attended by delegates from 26 different countries....

Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade

by Holly K. Craig & Julie A. Washington

Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade synthesizes a decade of research by the authors, Holly Craig and Julie Washington, on the oral language...

Teaching Children With Autism in the General Classroom

by Vicky Spencer

Unifying Educational Systems: Leadership and Policy Perspectives

by Leonard C. Burrello, Wayne Sailor & Jeannie Kleinhammer-Tramill

Unifying Educational Systems encourages leaders to move beyond the traditional forms and rituals of leadership for special education that are caught within traditional definitions of a continuum of services....

Dyslexia and Inclusion: Classroom approaches for assessment, teaching and learning

by Gavin Reid

Now fully updated, Dyslexia and Inclusion aims to equip all teachers with the necessary knowledge of dyslexia in order to for it to be effectively understood and dealt with in the classroom.

The book is based...

Drama, disability and education

by Andy Kempe

What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays?

This insightful and accessible text explores and analyses the way disability is portrayed in drama, and how that...

Using Storytelling to Support Children and Adults with Special Needs: Transforming lives through telling tales

by Nicola Grove

This innovative and wide-ranging book shows how storytelling can open new worlds for learners with or without special educational needs. With sections that outline both therapeutic and educational approaches,...

Perfectionism and Gifted Children

by Rosemary Callard-Szulgit

During her 35 year career, Callard-Szulgit has found perfectionism to be the #1 social-emotional trait of gifted children. She has helped hundreds of students recover from its harmful effects. Perfectionism...

Differentiated Instruction: Meeting the Needs of All Students In Your Classroom

by Marcie Nordlund

Offers teachers practical and proven methods of instruction for working with a wide variety of learners in their classrooms.

Problem Solver Guide for Students with ADHD: Ready-to-Use Interventions for Elementary and Secondary Students

by Harvey C. Parker

Parents and teachers need strategies for helping children with ADHD who have problems in organization, behavior, study habits, reading, written language, and socialization. The hundreds of solutions offered...

A Smile as Big as the Moon

by Mike Kersjes & Joe Layden

Besides being a football coach at his Michigan High School, Mike

Kersjes taught special education classes, dealing with children whose disabilities included Tourette syndrome, Downs Syndrome, dyslexia, eating...

The Short Bus

by Jonathan Mooney

A young man once called unteachable journeys across America to investigate the lives of those, like himself, who are forced to create new ways of living in order to survive Labeled "dyslexic and profoundly...

Assessment for Intervention, Second Edition: A Problem-Solving Approach

by Rachel Brown-Chidsey & Kristina J. Andren

Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). This authoritative work...