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The integration of handicapped children into mainstream schools remains an important policy issue in OECD countries.Thinking about the nature of handicap has evolved significantly over the last several years.This publication, based on information supplied by a wide range of Member countries and many other sources, traces the significant steps that have led to this new approach and discusses the concept of integration, its practice and its implications for training teachers and support staff.It also sketches some of the financial implications and obstacles to integration.This is thus the first report to discuss the concepts relating to handicap and disability within such a broad framework. ... Read more

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Good introduction to RTI
I purchased this book to read about Response To Intervention as our school goes through the process of setting up this type of methodology.The book presents RTI in a very concrete, easy to understand format. Methodology was presented, yet specific materials and processes was not covered in depth.The author's style of writing is comfortable, not intimidating.I have seen Tom Jenkins present, and his book reflects his easy-going, quick-witted style. This book would be a good introduction to RTI for those that are not at all familiar with the process.

A book every parent should read
Pastors are often the first to hear about a variety of family issues.Over the years a number of families have shared their concerns over a son or daughter who is struggling in school.And when the problem is the system itself, it's hard to know where to turn for assistance and direction.

Dr. Jenkins offers insight and hope to parents in such circumstances.He explains how the systemn works and doesn't work for kids who are not performing well in school.And he offers families another model for seeking help.

I found the book to be extrememly helpful and encouraging. ... Read more

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Parents of teens with learning disabilities face a wide range of questions and concerns regarding the education of their children. Periods of transition, particularly the movement through high school to the working world or to further education, can be particularly difficult to navigate. Guiding Teens with Learning Disabilities helps parents as their children shift from teenage life to adulthood. It includes sections on planning for transition, post-secondary education, vocational training, career preparation, and life in the community.

Guiding Teens with Learning Disabilities also covers issues like defining learning disabilities properly, getting eligibility for various educational benefits, understanding disability laws and protections, dealing with mental health issues, figuring out what entitlements a student is eligible for at various stages of his/her educational development, and much, much more. ... Read more

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Guiding teens with learning disabilities
Excellent source for parents of teens transitioning into adulthood and independence. Great tips for school meetings.

A must have for any educator in charge of these special needs students
Learning Disabilities do not have to be a giant neon sign blinking "I can't" over ones head - they can be overcome just like any other disability. "Guiding Teens with Learning Disabilities: Navigating the Transition from High School to Adulthood" is a comprehensive guide for guidance counselors and others responsible for assisting these individuals onto the next stages of their life. Advice on understanding the transition planning process under the IDEA of 2004, how to accept these individuals more, and how to prepare them for their life long careers. "Guiding Teens with Learning Disabilities: Navigating the Transition from High School to Adulthood" is a must have for any educator in charge of these special needs students and for community library education shelves.

A clear roadmap for supporting your ld teen
Dr. Roffman has thankfully written exactly the guide book I needed as my Down Syndrome son turned 16. As a parent, I had no training in how to think about transitioning my son to adulthood. He has been in an inclusion school environment all his life, from infant day care to high school. But the transition to the wide-open space of adulthood, when the structures of schooling were gone, was a complete mystery to me. How could I prepare? How could my son be best prepared during his final few years of secondary education?

Roffman's guide is a step-by-step roadmap for parents, of what to do, what to ask, who to ask, and when to ask. It is also useful for anyone on the service side of transitioning learning disabled teens. The book seems most specifically addressed to the parents and service providers of children with more common learning disabilities than Down Syndrome. Yet it helped me to raise my hopes and standards of what to expect for outcomes of my son'stransition as well. For example, with proper preparation, perhaps my son could attend a community college or build a more advanced skill set toward future employment than I was thinking previously.

When I attended his 10th grade IEP review meeting, I felt completely prepared, and for the first time, I knew what I wanted to have happen during the meeting, and it did! This book made the difference. I have recommended Roffman's book to everyone in our school district's SPED PAC, to those who work with my son in the high school, and to members of the school committee. I no longer feel like "the blind leading the blind." Instead, I feel confident that I will be able to support my son's transition with confidence, even if I don't know all the answers yet. Now I know how to ask the questions, of both my son and his service providers, in time for us to figure out the best answers together. If you are parenting a learning disabled teen, or providing services for ld teens, I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. You'll be glad that you did.

Well Organized, Practical, a Reference, not a story book.
This book is organized well. It explains what youneed to do in a step by step fashion.It has tables, and checklists. It pulls in essential information that you need in reference like style that is easy to go back to.

Other books on this topic, which I've obtained, review, and returned because they read like a story book because they were difficult to reference later on.This one is not a story book, by an emotional author.Its written with facts, objective recommendation and suggestions that you can apply to your own situation as you see fit or as you need.

A valuable contribution!
This is a concise, well-written, very understandable guidebook for parents and teens with LD facing a challenging time in their lives. Most delightfully, this book is very positive (while realistic) in its tone and suggestions. For a small book, it is simply packed with practical strategies (with emphatic finger-pointing bullets!) and guidance. The timetable is an easy to use resource for those with attention challenges! Dr. Roffman intersperses case vignettes to show the human side of these issues, and she shows what the individuals can and did do to deal with the challenges. Very good role models for success!All in all, an excellent book.I'll keep this copy on hand to show parents and will certainly recommend it to staff and patients. It's a must read roadmap for families who find themselves at this intersection.

Jerome J. Schultz, Ph.D.
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Director, Center for Child and Adolescent Development
Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School
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This teacher's book is designed to support low-attaining and special needs pupils who are following National Curriculum Geography in England, Wales and Northen Ireland or Environmental Studies in Scotland. "Pathway 3" is for pupils who are following a textbook-based course, but who need additional support in the form of differentiated pupil tasks targeted on particular skills, themes or case studies. There is an emphasis on group work, collaborative work, manipulative tasks, personal investigation and fieldwork. ... Read more

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What's it like to be a disabled child or young person at a residential school? How do parents feel about their child living away from home? How do local authorities support disabled children, young people and their families to make good decisions about residential school placements, to keep in touch with each other, and to ensure that disabled children at residential schools are safe and well looked after. Based on the experiences of 35 disabled children and young people currently at residential school and the views of their parents, this report outlines the present situation. Building on an earlier stage of research which looked at decision making and policies in 21 local authorities, this report looks at how four case study authorities make decisions about residential school placements. It considers whether current legislation and guidance is effective in protecting and promoting the interests of disabled children who attend residential schools. ... Read more

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Young people with ADHD can struggle to develop the skills they need to adapt to new situations and establish greater independence. This fun and interactive workbook is aimed at actively engaging young people with ADHD and supporting them as they negotiate the pitfalls of growing-up, and the transition to secondary or high school. Each chapter focuses on a different key issue affecting children with ADHD around the time of school transition, such as organization, friendships and stress. If left unaddressed, these difficulties can contribute to low self-esteem, behavioral problems and poor academic achievement. Using tried-and-tested strategies and top tips, this fully-photocopiable workbook will help adults to work collaboratively with young people to learn, test strategies, set goals and develop comprehensive support plans around individual needs. Suitable for use with individual children or group work, "Helping Kids and Teens with ADHD in School" will guide teachers, therapists and support staff in helping young people with ADHD to overcome the challenges of early adolescence in order to improve school performance and personal relationships. ... Read more

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Highly recommended for any working with ADHD kids
Helping Kids and Teens with ADHD in School: A Workbook for Classroom Support and Managing Transitions should be in every educator's library: it provides chapters that focus on different key issues affecting children with ADHD around the time of school transition from organization to friendships, and it provides tested strategies and tips in a photocopiable workbook format designed to help adults work collaboratively with youngsters. A 'must' for any serious educator's library. ... Read more

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Affecting one out of every 20 children and adolescents, ADHD is often first identified by education professionals--teachers, counselors, or school psychologists. Until now, however, the literature on ADHD has primarily been written by and for clinic -based practitioners. Addressing school-related problems associated with ADHD such as academic underachievement, noncompliance with classroom rules, and problematic peer relationships, this book is specifically designed to meet the needs of school psychologists, guidance counselors, administrators, and both regular and special education teachers.
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Not anything new.
If you are a first time teacher, maybe this book would be helpful, but I have taught 15+ years, and I really didn't learn anything new.I was hoping it would give strategies to help with ADHD students in the classroom, but not so much.It did give lots of research, which I wasn't really looking for. ... Read more

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The Eighth Edition of Human Exceptionality continues to provide a complete, accessible introduction to teaching, interacting, and living with individuals with exceptionalities across the lifespan, with an increased attention to "teaching." After a detailed introduction to the foundations of exceptionality, featuring completely revised and expanded chapters about exceptionality and education, the second half of Human Exceptionality focuses on definitions, classifications, prevalence, causation, and characteristics for the major categories of exceptionality. The discussion of each category concludes with practical educational, medical, and social services aspects of working with people with exceptionalities. Up-to-date research informs discussions that are intelligent and interesting. Detailed, personal stories about people with exceptionalities, along with features that help students study and apply material in each chapter, create this book's unique human approach.This text is appropriate for preservice and practicing teachers interested in additional certification, as well as anyone planning to work with persons with exceptionalities in other human services contexts, such as psychology, social work, allied health, and counseling. ... Read more

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Human Exceptionality
The book arrived in a timely manner and was in great condition. I am very happy with the books I have ordered.

Enjoyed the required reading!
The reading from the book was required for my class, but I actually enjoyed it! Very well written, easy to read, and worthwhile.

College Textbook
I was so pleased with the quality and shape of the book. It saved me a fortune using Amazon.com. I will definitely use them again. Thanks from a very happy college student!

Great Book!
Great text book.Exactly as described.I bought it for a class and it is very useful!

Exceptionality: Home, School & Community
I still have not received my order of the Exceptionality book.I have ordered another book through barnes & noble.I should be receiving it today or tomorrow. I would like to receive a refund of 20.00 that which I purchased on my credit card.The rest of my order came in a very timely manor....no problem.Have a nice day. Melody E. Butterton ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Samantha Abeel couldn't tell time, remember her locker combination, or count out change at a checkout counter, and she was in seventh grade. For a straight-A student like Samantha, problems like these made no sense. In her 13th winter, she found the courage to confront her problems, and was diagnosed with a learning disability. ... Read more

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My Thirteenth Winter
LOVED this book. I picked it up merely because of the cover. It looked interesting. I have not given it to my sister and a friend. It helped me look at my children differently and how they learn. It helped me empathize with those with learning disabilities. I would recomend this book to ANYONE!

11 Year Old's Review
Beautifully written. Striking. You can feel the struggles of her life, not being able to remember locker combinations, count change, do five minus two. She goes through her story with detail and feeling, through middle school, high school, and college. She describes her panic attacks, which included muscle spasms and nausea, which happened all through middle school and returned during college; she described the effects and responses of her self-published poetry book; and she described the struggles of having an LD {learning disability}. No one else could tell her story but her. Even though she always turned to her mom for backup, her mother wouldn't be able to represent the feelings of living up to the "smart girl" persona Samantha was given. Her father wouldn't be able to explain how she always forgot little things at her hotel maid job, like new towels here and an empty trash can there. Her brother Zack can't describe the emotional responses Samantha had received after her book of poems, Reach for the Moon. Even those closest to her didn't understand her. This book was Samantha Abeel's story, and hers only.

Finding and Nurturing Potential
Samantha Abeel has done a great service for kids, parents, and educators by sharing her story about what it means to be twice exceptional, a student with gifts and simultaneous disabilities. We learn of the pain and the triumphs of an individual that was so highly gifted that she published a beautiful book of poetry, "Reach for the Moon," at the age of thirteen, but at the same time needed the support of special education because she couldn't make change, tell time or do basic calculations. She shows us the importance of self acceptance and self-advocacy. We also see the powerful impact that her mother had in tirelessly advocating for attention to both her strengths and her needs. This is a book that should be read by all educators as well as parents of students with special needs and most importantly by the students themselves.

Very familiar territory
I almost felt like I was reading my own biography.

This book hit very close to home and is an accessible and easily understood look into what it's like for "smart people" with learning disorders.

The publishers ate a star on this one.I bought the mass market paperback and the print was so tiny it was hard to read.

Very interesting book, My Thirteenth Winter
I am a third grade teacher and I bought this book because I thought a child in my class might have the same learning disability that is talked about in this book.The book is very enlightening to those who otherwise wouldn't know much about LD's but it is a memoir so it doesn't neccessarily help you deal with a student or person with an LD any differently.It was very inspiring! ... Read more

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Children with sensory and cognitive difficulties can struggle to interact with their peers, are easily distracted, sensitive and have problems coping with change. It can be difficult to find the time and resources to give these children the extra encouragement they need. "Fuzzy Buzzy Groups for Children with Developmental and Sensory Processing Difficulties" has been devised to address the needs of children with sensory processing difficulties and development delay in mainstream educational environments. This easy-to-follow resource will enable professionals to carry out the programme in a relaxed and fun way. This resource contains a handy list of resources and activities, criteria for selecting suitable children and a step-by-step guide to carrying out the themed programmes, including photocopiable forms and checklists and a CD containing music to use with the group. "The Fuzzy Buzzy Programme" will help children learn to share, take turns, listen, interact with their peers and improve their self-esteem.The programme is ideally suited to children aged 2-5, and most effectively delivered over an 8-week period, although this can be adapted to suit individual needs, and is perfect for early years' practitioners, teachers, teaching assistants, family respite carers and other professionals working with young children with complex needs. ... Read more

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Offers step-by-step keys to carrying out a session and includes photocopiable forms and checklists
Fiona Brownlee and Lindsay Munro's FUZZY BUZZY GROUPS FOR CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL AND SENSORY PROCESSING DIFFICULTIES: A STEP-BY-STEP RESOURCE is accompanied by a sing-along CD and offers professionals a resource for engaging young kinds in a fun, sensory-based way. From choosing sensory food and drink to involving parents in the group, this offers step-by-step keys to carrying out a session and includes photocopiable forms and checklists.
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Working with Hannah is a unique and detailed snapshot of the first years of schooling for a child with Down's Syndrome and severe mobility and communication problems. Written by two classroom assistants, who supported Hannah during her two and a half years in a mainstream infant school, this book shows how the right level of support can make inclusion a success not only for the child and family but also for the school itself. This is a practical guide describes the 'hands on' approach of Hannah's day-to-day management in a busy school. ... Read more

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Teachers need realistic ideas to help them the day-to-day challenges of inclusion. Written by an experienced and sympathetic Inclusion Coordinator, Inclusion covers planning and setting targets using P scales and IEPs, photocopiable sheets and templates. The book helps teachers and TAs work together to best support students and promotes successful communication between teachers and students, and students and students. ... Read more

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Increasingly dyslexia is becoming a whole-school issue. The responsibility for addressing the needs of dyslexic students no longer rests with one individual but is the responsibility of all school staff - subject specialists and school management. This timely book addresses this need by providing specific guidance to secondary school staff on how to support dyslexic students within different subject areas and within the principles and practices of inclusion. ... Read more

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The HELP! series provides highly practical, to-the-point advice for parenting and marriage problems identified as high felt needs from the Focus on the Family audience. The intent of the HELP! series is to offer quick, accessible, practical advice, an overview of the important elements of the topic, and realistic take aways for readers to immediately apply. Also includes additional resource referrals for where to get more help. ... Read more

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Positive Intervention for Pupils who Struggle at School provides the resources and information primary teachers need to ensure a happy and effective school experience for all children, particularly those who are seriously struggling. This tried and tested intervention is designed specifically for those children who have been through all the standard interventions, to no avail, and who are now in danger of being excluded.

Explaining the thinking behind the suggested modified curriculum, this innovative book considers the reasons why certain children experience difficulties and looks at how this curriculum addresses their needs and enables them to develop personal, social and emotional skills. The activities are chosen to develop and enhance skills for learning, including listening, speaking, concentrating, a positive disposition and a willingness to take on new challenges.

Helen Sonnet demonstrates how success has been achieved through this strategy and provides valuable information to help teachers to set up similar groups in their own schools, including how to:

• ensure firm foundations for the group
• select the children who will benefit most
• establish the structures and routine of a successful group
• assess the children’s progress
• reintegrate children into their mainstream classes effectively.

In line with government initiatives this important and effective intervention strategy can make the world of difference, giving teachers new, proven strategies to enable them to support children who are struggling in mainstream primary schools.

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When a student with a brain injury joins a classroom, there are new challenges for everyone involved. This book serves as both an introduction and a practical handbook for working with children who have acquired brain injury (ABI). Designed for school professionals, it describes the full range of issues facing this growing student population and presents innovative, proven strategies for improving the quality of the school experience for all children regardless of the school settingfrom special education classrooms to fully inclusive programs. School professionals and parents can rely on this functional book for dependable, accessible information to guide them in their efforts to support children with ABI in the school setting. ... Read more

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Written with the newly-qualified teacher in mind, this text considers the nature of learning difficulties, and the impact of legislation and policy on the teaching and learning of pupils with a range of special educational needs in the mainstream classroom. The author offers practical solutions to the many challenges facing teachers in inclusive settings, including appropriate provision, access to the curriculum, classroom organization and management, and staff development. ... Read more