Effective education for learners with exceptionalities

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Obiakor, Festus E., Utley, Cheryl Anita Rose, Rotatori, Anthony F.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; London : JAI, 2003.
• Σειρά: Advances in special education ; v. 15.
• Θέματα: Special education.; Inclusive education.; Effective teaching.; Educational psychology.; Teaching of specific groups & persons with special educational needs.; Education > Special Education > General.

 The use of the Internet to post information on teaching children with exceptionalities has led to problems for professionals who prefer such knowledge to be screened for accuracy. This volume includes useful, validated information that will help teachers to teach children with exceptionalities more effectively. The authors argue that effective education must facilitate the identification, evaluation, and placement and instructional programming for learners with exceptionalities. Based upon the school improvement and effective education literature and standards-based reform movement, schools must adopt principles of school effectiveness and offer classroom instruction that is based upon a clear assessment of the instructional needs of learners with exceptionalities and the implementation of interventions to maximize their potential and classroom performance. The book is designed to examine research from the disciplines of psychology, sociology, organizational theory, curriculum and instruction, and special education to address the critical issues related to the psychology of effective education for learners with exceptionalities. Contributors address a broad range of topics for restructuring general and special education into a unified system of education. Issues of labeling, classification, and identification; a continuum of educational and service delivery alternatives; curriculum and instruction; assessment and evaluation; distribution of funding resources; responsibilities; rationales for the grouping; and tracking of students are discussed across categories of exceptionalities. Part I of this book is organized around current perspectives and paradigms reflecting the authors' professional knowledge base in special education and the unification of general and special education into a comprehensive service delivery system. Part II specifically addresses a range of issues and topics of effective education for learners with exceptionalities. Part III addresses a range of issues and topics of effective education for learners with exceptionalities across the life span and for special student populations. 

 Transforming the teaching-learning process in general and special education / Festus E. Obiakor -- The federal role in transforming general and special education / Cheryl A. Utley and Marlene Simon -- Transforming general and special education in urban schools / Dianne Ferguson, Elizabeth Kozleski and Anne Smith -- Educating students with cognitive disabilities / Cheryl A. Utley and Festus E. Obiakor -- Students with learning disabilities / Katherine J. Mitchem and Ann Richards -- Restructuring service delivery for students with emotional and behavioral disorders / Sujatha S. Hampton and Elisabeth K. Hess-Rice -- Students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder / Marjorie Montague -- Guiding principles for the education of children and youth with severe and multiple disabilities / Ernest Rose, Beverly Rainforth and Daniel Steere -- Students with speech and language disorders / Jane R. Wegner, Kristin Grosche and Evette Edmister -- Students with autism spectrum / Tim Wahlberg, Anthony F. Rotatori, Julie Deisinger and Sandra Burkhardt -- Visual impairment / Wendy Sapp -- Educating children and youth with serious medical conditions: perils and potential / Joan Fleitas -- Students with traumatic brain injury / Janet Siantz Tyler and Ronald C. Savage -- Students with gifts and talents / Vera I. Daniels -- Early childhood special education / Vivian I. Correa and Hazel Jones -- Transitions to adulthood for youth with disabilities / Mary E. Morningstar and Kagendo Mutua -- The myth of socioeconomic dissonance: working with homeless students in special education contexts / Lynn K. Wilder and Festus E. Obiakor -- Family and school partnerships: building bridges in general and special education / Jean Ann Summers, Karen Gavin, Tonya Purnell-Hall and Jason Nelson -- Multicultural learners with exceptionalities in general and special education settings / Herbert Grossman, Cheryl A. Utley and Festus E. Obiakor.