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A Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment of a Child with Severe Disabilities
Enables early childhood professionals simulate a TPBA2 session with a preschooler who has severe disabilities and health impairments. This work includes a 50-minute DVD of a recorded play session to help them practice their observational and note-taking skills, and a tablet of blank TPBA2 forms to fill out after viewing Kassandra's play session.
Offers students and professionals information for developing and improving the quality of early childhood special education. This book focuses on implementation of early childhood education systems. It provides suggestions for setting up a family and child friendly system for evaluating young children.
Guides educators in the use of technology, or more specifically, universal design for learning in secondary education for students with disabilities, supporting both their inclusion in general education classrooms and achievement of academic goals as well as their transition to adult life.
Offers early interventionists information on the proper development of young children as well as risk factors and environmental circumstances that can hinder a child's development. This book covers prenatal and perinatal periods; and early detection and identification of developmental delays or disorders, and diseases.
A guide suitable for childhood professionals to build a developmental parenting program for the families they serve. It shows home visitors how to put parents and other caregivers confidently in charge of guiding and supporting their young children's development.
Each year thousands of children in the United States experience trauma that creates obstacles to academic achievement and social success. This work helps educators to understand how violence and other forms of trauma affect the key elements of a child's school and social success, including behavior, attention, memory, and language.
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.
Working Across Disciplines to Support Infants, Young Children, and Their Families
Suitable for EI professionals, this work shows how to collaborate with other service providers to address the complex needs of infants with multiple disabilities. It offers guidance on addressing early communication development, sensory processing, vision, and hearing and infusing interdisciplinary interventions into the child's daily routine.
For children, adolescents, and adults with autism, AAC can have a tremendous positive impact on communication, social skills, and behaviour. Now there's a comprehensive, up-to-date research volume that shows professionals what today's most effective AAC methods are - and why they're a perfect fit with a variety of learning approaches that work for ......
