Exceptional Lives : Special Education in Today's Schools
ISBN: 9780131126008 | 0131126008
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2004
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For introductory courses in Special Education. Widely recognized for innovation and accessibility, this text is a tribute to the authors' vision of equipping general and special education teachers with principles, values, and practices that support educating the majority of students with disabilities within general education programs. Through four engaging themesuniversal design for learning, inclusion, collaboration, and multicultural responsivenessthe text explores the processes necessary for implementing best practices to achieve the goals of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997. The authors showcase real students with real disabilitiesletting their stories illustrate, as nothing else could, the characteristics and causes of disabilities, the challenges faced by people with exceptionalities, and the myriad factors educators must consider when making decisions about how, where, and what to teach.
| Overview of Today's Special Education | p. 2 |
| Implementing IDEA's Principles | p. 40 |
| Special Education Today: Inclusion and Collaboration | p. 72 |
| Learning Disabilities | p. 104 |
| Emotional or Behavioral Disorders | p. 144 |
| Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | p. 180 |
| Giftedness | p. 222 |
| Mental Retardation | p. 260 |
| Severe and Multiple Disabilities | ... MOREp. 300 |
| Autism | p. 336 |
| Other Health Impairments | p. 368 |
| Physical Disabilities | p. 404 |
| Traumatic Brain Injury | p. 438 |
| Communication Disorders | p. 480 |
| Hearing Loss | p. 516 |
| Blindness and Low Vision | p. 556 |
| Glossary | p. 597 |
| References | p. 605 |
| Name Index | p. 641 |
| Subject Index | p. 653 |
| Photo Credits | p. 673 |
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