Education and Study aids / Special Education

Handbook of Learning Disabilities, Second Edition

by H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris & Steve Graham

Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this comprehensive handbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the nature and classification of learning disabilities (LD), their causes, and how...

Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations: Using values-based education to promote positive learning

by Gill Ellis, Nicola S. Morgan & Ken Reid

How can we create effective partnerships between home, school and the community?

How can the relationships and communication between families and school be strengthened?

How can families help schools to improve...

Mainstreaming Retardation Delinquency

by Richard S. Greene

This collection of papers presents ideas and research that helps to find a link between the retarded child's educational setting and the onset of delinquency. The first section presents the impacts of the judicial...

Don't you Get It? Living with Auditory Learning Disabilities

by Harvey Edell, Jay R. Lucker & Loraine Alderman

Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) affects as many as 5 percent of children. It has been called a "hidden disability" because it is often mistaken for everything from odd behavior and deafness to other disorders...

Dyslexia: How to survive and succeed at work

by Sylvia Moody

Dyslexic people face many problems in the workplace: difficulties with reading and writing, memory, organisation and time management, and a recent TUC report on dyslexia in the workplace estimates that 3 million...

Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators

by Joyce Cooper-Kahn & Margaret Foster

A guide for helping students with weak Executive Function skills to learn efficiently and effectively

Students with weak Executive Function skills need strong support and specific strategies to help them learn...

Twilight Children

by Torey Hayden

A light in the darkness for severely troubled children, former special education teacher Torey Hayden faced three of her most extraordinary challenges after she left the classroom

Nine-year-old Cassandra, kidnapped...

Beautiful Child

by Torey Hayden

In the tradition of David Pelzer's A Child Called 'It' comes the unsettling story of a mute, almost catatonic seven–year–old and the special education teacher who tries to save her from the silence and abuse...

Perfectionism and Gifted Children

by Rosemary Callard-Szulgit

In her second edition of Perfectionism and Gifted Children, Callard-Szulgit provides practical insight into perfectionism, discussing why so many gifted children are perfectionists while also providing common...

The Dyslexia Checklist: A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers

by Sandra F. Rief & Judith Stern

Essential advice and resources for helping kids with dyslexia

The Dyslexia Checklist is a valuable guide for parents and teachers that can help them better understand children and teenagers with dyslexia and...

Analysing Low Attainers in the Global Knowledge Economy

by Sally Tomlinson

What happens to young people who are defined as lower attainers or having learning difficulties in a global knowledge economy?

How do we stop those with learning difficulties or disabilities being seen as social...

Developmental Neuropsychology

by Janna Glozman

Developmental Neuropsychology draws upon the research of Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky to present a comprehensive study of developmental neuropsychology from a Russian, and Western perspective. Janna Glozman...

Exemplary Teachers of Students in Poverty

by Geoff Munns, Wayne Sawyer & Bronwyn Cole

Education and poverty exist in a highly contested relationship even in the developed world. On the one hand, educational outcomes seem solidly attached to socio-economic status, and on the other, education is...

Dyscalculia: Action plans for successful learning in mathematics

by Glynis Hannell

Based on expert observations of children who experience difficulties with maths this book gives a comprehensive overview of dyscalculia, providing a wealth of information and useful guidance for any practitioner....

Meeting SEN in the Curriculum: English

by Tim Hurst

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 Special Needs in Modern Foreign Languages

by Sally McKewon

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 the Learning Needs of All Children: Personalised Learning in the Primary School

by Joan Dean

Personalized learning involves helping each child to reach his or her full potential - intellectually, personally and socially. To achieve this, teachers need to match learning opportunities to the learning...

Provision Mapping: Improving outcomes in primary schools

by Anne Massey

Written by an experienced practitioner who has a very current understanding of the school context, this book gives a fantastically clear, detailed and realistic strategy?for primary schools with regards to raising...

Attitudes Toward Handicapped Students: Professional, Peer, and Parent Reactions

by Marcia D. Horne

Many handicapped children are now being treated and educated in the mainstream of society. Therefore it is important for professionals to be knowledgeable about the attitudes of societal members toward these...

Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants: Guidance for school leaders and teachers

by Anthony Russell, Rob Webster & Peter Blatchford

Teaching assistants have become an integral part of classroom life, yet pioneering research by the authors has shown that school leaders and teachers are not making the most of this valued resource. Results...