Education and Study aids / Special Education

The IEP from A to Z: How to Create Meaningful and Measurable Goals and Objectives

by Diane Twachtman-Cullen & Jennifer Twachtman-Bassett

A truly comprehensive, teacher- and parent-friendly guide to creating clear and effective IEPs

With the skyrocketing diagnoses of ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and related conditions in U.S. schools, there...

Everyone's Universe: A Guide to Accessible Astronomy Places

by Noreen A Grice

Remember how excited you felt the first time you looked at the moon through a telescope? How you wanted to scan the sky and see what other hidden gems were hiding in the darkness? Now imagine that you were not...

Inclusive Education in the Middle East

by Eman Gaad

Adopting inclusive education to support learning for all is an international phenomenon that is finding its way to the Middle East and the Arabian region. Eman Gaad examines inclusive education in Arabia and...

Why Students Underachieve: What Educators and Parents Can Do about It

by Regalena Melrose

Here is a timely response to the research findings of the last decade. It focuses on the need to understand just how prevalent trauma is in the lives of our students, how it impacts the brain, subsequent learning,...

Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs

by Darlene Mannix

Ready-to-use lessons for teaching basic life skills to adolescents with special needs

This book offers teachers and parents a unique collection of more than 200 worksheets to help adolescents with special needs...

Making RTI Work: How Smart Schools are Reforming Education through Schoolwide Response-to-Intervention

by Wayne Sailor

Offers best practices for implementing RTI at the school-wide level-to ensure success for all learners

Response-to-Intervention is now mandated at schools across the country. While there are a handful of books...

Strategies for Teaching Adolescents with ADHD: Effective Classroom Techniques Across the Content Areas, Grades 6-12

by Silvia DeRuvo

ADHD expert offers help for teaching the content areas to students with attention problems

Written by an expert in the field of ADHD, this important resource offers strategies to teach adolescents with ADHD across...

Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms

by Ann Gadzikowski

Support and guide exceptionally bright children while creating richer, inclusive learning environments for all children in early childhood classrooms.

Improving Disabled Students' Learning: Experiences and Outcomes

by Mary Fuller, Jan Georgeson & Mick Healey

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support?

This book...

Spotlight on Reading: A Teacher's Toolkit of Instant Reading Activities

by Glynis Hannell

Spotlight on Reading offers teachers a wide variety of topics and activities to stimulate, engage, challenge, entertain and extend all pupils' reading skills.

This extremely practical resource provides busy...

Spotlight on Your Inclusive Classroom: A Teacher's Toolkit of Instant Inclusive Activities

by Glynis Hannell

Spotlight on Your Inclusive Classroom offers teachers an interesting miscellany of topics and activities to stimulate, engage, challenge, entertain and extend all pupils' thinking skills and knowledge base....

Understanding and Managing Children's Behaviour through Group Work

by Cath Hunter

'I would highly recommend the skills, expertise and delivery that Cath can bring to a school and can guarantee that any school following her advice will not regret it.'

Carl McIver, Head of School, St. Willibrord's...

Adventures in Fast Forward: Life, Love and Work for the Add Adult

by Kathleen G. Nadeau

Written in response to common questions posed by adults with ADD in the author's clinical practice - and for all adults with ADD, as well as those who care about them - this book is designed as a clear and practical...

Attention Deficit Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment from Infancy to Adulthood

by Patricia O. Quinn

Published in 1996, Attention Deficit Disorder is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychiatry/Clinical Psychology.

Child Development and Teaching Pupils with Special Educational Needs

by Anne Anderson, Richard Gerrish & Lyn Layton

A thought-provoking book which provides a framework for understanding the physical, sensory, emotional, social, linguistic and cognitive development of children with special educational needs. It gives practitioners...

Children, Families and Schools: Developing Partnerships for Inclusive Education

by Sally Beveridge

Effective communication between the home and school is crucial for any child's education, but where special needs are concerned, creating good partnerships is essential. This book is concerned with home-school...

A Teaching Assistant's Guide to Child Development and Psychology in the Classroom: Second edition

by Susan Bentham

This book will help teaching assistants get to grips with the main issues to do with psychology and its role in the processes of teaching and learning.

Susan Bentham provides informative yet down-to-earth...

Identifying and Supporting Children with Specific Learning Difficulties: Looking Beyond the Label to Support the Whole Child

by Pamela Deponio & Christine Macintyre

Many children experience difficulties which impact on their learning at home and school. Some children are considered to have a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia or dyspraxia, but other children...

Ants in Their Pants: Teaching Children Who Must Move to Learn

by Aerial Cross

Ideas and advice to redirect "extra busy" cildren's excess energy in an appropriate, positive direction.

A New Role for Sencos

by Rita Cheminais

Recent changes to education policy have brought about a new emphasis on promoting school-to-school support and school-led improvement, in order to ensure that all pupils, including those with SEN, achieve their...