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Technology for Inclusion is an extremely practical, comprehensive survey of professional practices needed by teachers to meet the technology needs of their students. This book is designed for hands-on practitioners, whether beginners or advanced users. Written in an informal style, with a strong research base, this new edition will appeal to both pre-service and professional in-service audiences. For anyone special education with a focus on technology. ... Read more

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Textbook for Graduate Studies
Easy to read...full of valuable information.Short, concise chapters that fully explain the concept of assistive technology. Affordable, too! ... Read more

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Explore the challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls of the inclusion of students with disabilities in your classroom!

Exciting, complex, and challenging shifts in American education are occurring today. First, schools are moving to embrace student diversity and accommodate the classroom experience to support diverse ways of organizing students for learning. Second, teachers are moving away from a traditional didactic instructional mode and embracing a facilitator role that encourages creating innovative classroom learning opportunities. Third, there is a shift from the view of the school as providing educational and psychoeducational services for students to providing educational supports for learning.

Coinciding with these changes is the growing movement in special education that enourages full inclusion of students with special needs. This is a far cry from the exclusionary and separatist movements of special education less than twenty years ago. Now American education is facing the challenging situation of working with students with disabilities in the regular classroom. Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students provides a much needed overview of the issues faced by educators committed to understanding how to best serve children with disabilities in schools.

Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students: Theory, Research, and Application provides an overview of the origins, evolution, and recent developments regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities into general education classrooms. The book critically challenges the overriding assumptions that support the philosophy of inclusion with a balanced presentation or research and theory that both supports and raises questions about the viability of this practice. The contributors are authorities in their respective areas of inclusionary practices.

Some of the issues you will explore in Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students are:

• political, fiscal, and legal events that have shaped inclusion practices
• implications for school psychologists
• handling students with serious emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems remaining in regular education
• agenda for future research
• priorities for research, training, and policy reform
  
  Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students addresses practical, psychoeducational, philosophical, legal, ethical, and financial issues surrounding the inclusionary initiative in special education.

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This digital document is an article from Phi Delta Kappan, published by Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 3298 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The problem with inclusion programs is that they cannot serve students with special needs because other aspects of the regular school program must advance according to stated goals. Special ed children deserve an environment in which their needs can be met.

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Title: Thinking of inclusion for all special needs students: better think again. (failure of school programs that include special education students in regular public school classes)
Author: Richard W. Smelter
Publication: Phi Delta Kappan (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1994
Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.
Volume: v76Issue: n1Page: p35(4)

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This digital document is an article from Arts & Activities, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1374 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Making art activities work for students with special needs.(artful INCLUSION)
Author: Anne Vize
Publication: Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 138Issue: 4Page: 17(2)

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special education facts
This book was purchased for a graduate class to help aid in a reference book of special education.This book was extremely useful and something as a teacher I would go back to and review information.The format is great and is very easy to find the information you are looking for.A very great buy for someone in education or taking special education classes.

Great for Gen Ed teachers
As an inclusion facilitator, I highly recommend this book for the general education teacher.It is well organized, well written, and provides detailed but direct overviews about specific learning challenges, as well as accommodations that are viable in the classroom.I read the whole thing from cover to cover and am recommending to all of the teachers that I am working with.

Mr. Yanoff is a wonderful teacher and author.
I am only one of the lucky students who have not only had the pleasure of reading this book, but I have had Mr. Yanoff as one of my teachers.I really only picked this book up because I enjoyed his teaching so much.As a future teacher I can honestly say that after having Mr. Yanoff as a teacher and after reading this book I think that I am ready to take on the challenges in the classroom.Thank you Mr. Yanoff for you wonderful class and for writing this book so I will never forget what you taught me.:) ... Read more

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General teaching strategies for less proficient readers, learning disabled, special needs, gifted, and talented students. Reproducible pages with teaching options for meeting individual needs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Child Study Journal, published by State University of New York at Buffalo - School of Law on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 4636 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Preparing for inclusion.
Author: Mary Beth Henning
Publication: Child Study Journal (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: State University of New York at Buffalo - School of Law
Volume: 32Issue: 1Page: 19(11)

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This digital document is an article from Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, published by Pro-Ed on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 6301 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Community inclusion for children and youth with developmental disabilities.
Author: Ellen Fennick
Publication: Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2003
Publisher: Pro-Ed
Volume: 18Issue: 1Page: 20(8)

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Learn how to guarantee high student achievement—without adding separate and alternative programs in your school!

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Makes diversity the responsibility of the whole school
This book does an excellent job of framing diversity as a concern and responsibility of the entire school community.This book takes the reader through a process of gathering important statistics that will illustrate the need for change in the school community.Capper et. al. handle the issues of minority students / staff, students with disabilities, students with diverse learning needs, students of lower-socioeconomic status, and issues of sexual orientation in the school community.

The book has a practical approach that is more about giving classroom teachers the skills they need to help to help ALL students before there is a need to label them and place them in special programs.

Their concept of "leading beyond inclusion" is cheaper and more effective for meeting the needs of students. ... Read more