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Research shows that teaching sign language to all young children has a wide range of benefits, from enhancing social‐emotional and preliteracy skills to supporting positive parent‐child relationships
Workshops for Siblings of Children with Special Needs
Presents a guidebook for organizing and conducting workshops for siblings of children with a variety of special needs. These workshops provide children and young adults with social and emotional support from their peers in a recreational and fun atmosphere. This edition includes a chapter on Sibshops Standards of Practice.
Self-determination has a powerful positive impact on post-school outcomes for young adults with disabilities-but how can educators teach students the skills they need to make their own choices and achieve their goals as they enter adulthood? This empowering guidebook shows the way. Packed with practical, research-validated guidance on explicitly ......
A New Vision for Literacy in the Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom
Discussing a social, dynamic model of literacy, this book highlights how inclusion of young children with significant disabilities promotes literacy development in children with and without disabilities. It also discusses the 10 domains of the inclusive early childhood literate community, which foster an ability to abstract and relate concepts.
What Successful Schools Do to Improve Student Achievement
Turn a good school into a great school with this invaluable guide. Discover the seven critical success factors that directly correlate with student achievement and get practical, real-world strategies for implementing them.
Offers tools that give K-12 education professionals the complete picture of a child's social-emotional strengths and risk behaviors in school (SSBS-2) and in the community (HCSBS). This work provides a way to identify children with problem behaviors, target classroom interventions and develop IEPs, and measure the effectiveness of interventions.
Offers tools that give K-12 education professionals the complete picture of a child's social-emotional strengths and risk behaviors in school (SSBS-2) and in the community (HCSBS). This work provides a way to identify children with problem behaviors, target classroom interventions and develop IEPs, and measure the effectiveness of interventions.
A follow-up to the successful ""Transition to Kindergarten (1999)"", this book offers a discussion of transition in the context of modern educational arena, reflecting policy changing practices, and different program approaches. It also addresses pertinent community influences in early education demographic changes, racial and cultural influences.
