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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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Jonathan Kozol
A searing, eye-opening expose of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age and Rachel and Her Children. Kozol blames the disparity among public school systems on the local funding structure that ensures a direct connection between affluence of a community ...
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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Alice Miller
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answerand has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents ...
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Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems Atany Level
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Sally E Shaywitz, M.D.
The author, an expert on reading and dyslexia, offers a scientific explanation of dyslexia and then explains how parents can work with their children to overcome this problem. Also discussed is dealing with dyslexia in older children and adults.
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Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education
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William L Heward
For courses in Introduction to Special Education, Exceptionalities or Mainstreaming. For two decades, professors at more than 350 colleges and universities have relied on this comprehensive, engaging text for professional research, current practice, and trends in special education. Grounded in scholarship, yet written with the human experience in ...
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Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Todays Schools
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Ann Turnbull
For introductory courses in Special Education. The authors of this introductory text have a vision for special education-to equip general and special education teachers with the principles, values and teaching practices that support the education of the majority of students with disabilities in general education programs. Beginning with a ...
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The Gift of Dyslexia
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Ronald D Davis, Eldon M Braun, Joan M Smith (Foreword by)
A handbook for teachers of dyslexic children.
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Including Students with Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers
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Marilyn Friend, William D Bursuck
This single most-adopted Inclusion text worldwide continues to provide the best source of practical strategies for teaching students with special needs in inclusive settings. Filled with examples and vignettes, the emphasis is always on teaching methods that promote student independence at all education levels. Its non-categorical approach helps ...
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Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
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Ellen Notbohm
Winner of an iParenting Media Award and Honorable Mention in the 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards! Every parent, teacher, social worker, therapist, and physician should have this succinct and informative book in their back pocket. Framed with both humor and compassion, the book defines the top ten characteristics that illuminate the minds and ...
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Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings
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Tom E C Smith
This bestselling text provides pre-service teachers in both general and special education programs the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to effectively include students with special needs in every classroom and to provide appropriate instruction for every student. From an authoritative team of experienced and widely-published special ...
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Introduction to Special Education: Making a Difference
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Deborah Deutsch Smith
With Making a Difference as its central theme, the Sixth Edition of this bestselling text recognizes that more than ever before, educators have the opportunity and ability to make a real difference in the educational experiences of their students with disabilities. Students and teachers have long relied on this comprehensive overview of the field ...
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Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them
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Ross W Greene, Ph.D., PhD
From a noted psychologist and author of the acclaimed "The Explosive Child" comes a thought-provoking and practical new book that examines why kids with behavioral challenges are falling through the cracks, and how parents and educators can help them.
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How the Special Needs Brain Learns
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Dr. David A Sousa
'The book's greatest strength may be its logical explanation of why today's students develop and learn differently, so that a functionally unchanging educational system is no longer appropriate in meeting learner needs' - Choice From the author of the How the Brain Learns comes a new book dealing with special needs students. How the Special Needs ...
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Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared
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Mike Rose
Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define the educational underclass to which Mike Rose once belonged. Here, he tells of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university, bringing a vital challenge to those who must shape America's educational agenda.
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Human Exceptionality: School, Community, and Family
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Michael L Hardman
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 ...
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Holler If You Hear Me: The Education of a Teacher and His Students
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Gregory Michie
In this time of narrowed curricula and high-stakes accountability, Gregory Michie's tales of struggle and triumph are as relevant as ever. Since it was first published in 1999, Holler has become essential reading for new and seasoned teachers alike, and an inspiring read for many others. Weaving back and forth between Michie's awakening as a ...
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Child Development and Education
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Teresa M McDevitt, Jeanne Ellis Ormrod
With a unique and engaging perspective, Child Development and Education, Fourth Edition is the only comprehensive child development text written specifically for educators. Because it is written by a developmentalist and an educational psychologist team, it provides the coverage and research found in more traditional child development texts but ...
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Teaching Special Students in General Education Classrooms
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Rena B Lewis, Donald H Doorlag
Teaching Special Students in General Education Classrooms, 8e, benefits all students in the Inclusion and Introduction to Special Education and Courses by providing teachers with the skills needed to deal with the complex and often perplexing diversity that lies behind the classroom door. All students, particularly those with special learning ...
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Special Education in Contemporary Society: An Introduction to Exceptionality
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Richard M Gargiulo
'The real strength of Richard Gargiulo's text is that it does not overwhelm the readers. Learning the vast - and often complex - field of special education is no easy task. Yet, the text meets this challenge head-on' - Bruce A Shields, Ph.D., Daemen College. 'Given the myriad of introductory textbooks on the market, I have continued using Gargiulo ...
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Applied Behavior Analysis for Teachers
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Paul Alberto
For courses in Applied Behavior Analysis, Behavior Management and Behavior Modification. Scholarly and empirically based, this market-leading text gives students what they need to understand using the principles and practices of applied behavioral management in the classroom. The content is presented clearly, in a friendly, accessible-even fun ...
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Educating exceptional children
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Samuel A. Kirk
The first survey of its kind to be published, Educating Exceptional Children is highly regarded for its academic and authoritative approach. The text provides both practical applications on how to adapt teaching methods, curriculum, and settings to meet the needs of students with disabilities, and analysis of ecological factors that influence the ...
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Beautiful Child
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Torey Hayden
The author, a special education teacher, tells of her efforts to reach out to an abused and electively mute student, a 7-year-old girl named Venus Fox.
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Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Meet the Academic Needs of the Gifted and Talented
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Susan Winebrenner, Pamela Espeland (Editor)
First published in 1992 and called "the orange Bible" by teachers, this revised and updated edition includes new chapters on the characteristics of gifted students and parenting gifted kids, expansion of strategies explained in the first edition, and new forms for teachers' use.
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Assessment: In Special and Inclusive Education
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John Salvia, James Ysseldyke
The market-leading professional resource in the field, this text offers basic assessment information and a handbook of actual reviews of the tests most often administered in K-12 schools. Assessment is recognized for its honest and even-handed reviews of common standardized tests administered by assessment personnel in the areas of achievement, ...
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Creating Inclusive Classrooms: Effective and Reflective Practices
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Spencer J Salend
This book is best suited for a course on inclusion or mainstreaming. It also may be appropriate for introductory courses in special education, methods courses in special education, and courses on collaboration. Thoroughly revised, Creating Inclusive Classrooms: Effective and Reflective Practices, fourth edition, provides a practical and research ...
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Learning Outside the Lines: Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution
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Jonathan Mooney, David Cole
Mooney, a dyslexic student, and Cole, who has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder describe their early academic failures and the limits of the education system for such students. Includes guidelines for learning disabled and ADHD students for academic success.
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