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To help students with disabilities make a smooth transition from high school to adulthood, you need proven and practical strategies that prepare them for success in an increasingly complex world. You'll find more than 500 research-based, teacher-tested support strategies in The New Transition Handbook-the modern transition guide for today's students and the professionals who support them.

Packed with down-to-earth, immediately useful transition strategies, this book has the evidence-based guidance readers need to help students with moderate and severe disabilities prepare for every aspect of adult life, from applying for a job to improving social skills.

Discrete trial instruction or naturalistic, incidental teaching: How do you choose which approach to use with young children with autism? There's no need to ""pick a side""—this groundbreaking book helps professionals skillfully blend the best of both behavioural approaches to respond to each child's individual needs. Developed an expert on autism, this innovative, evidence-based guidebook cuts through the chaos of conflicting information and gives readers a logical, child-centred way to plan and implement intervention.

Great for teacher training, this book is a step-by-step guide to the research-based Co-Design Model, a schoolwide approach to strengthening collaboration and inclusion. It includes strategies, success stories, and forms and checklists for promoting collaborative education.

How can early childhood practitioners best respond to cultural and linguistic diversity and ensure positive interactions with all children and families? Discover the power of `Skilled Dialogue' - a unique, effective, and field-tested model for interactions that honour the cultural beliefs and values of everyone involved.

This simple but powerful story introduces educators to one of the best, most effective inclusion strategies: using students' fascinations to help them learn.

The first criterion-referenced, standardized test that assesses cognitive and academic skills after pediatric brain injury, PTBI? is the tool every SLP needs to develop effective supports for children ages 6-16 and get them ready for a successful return t

What happens after a formative literacy assessment like DIBELS, TPRI, FAIR, or AIMSweb? How can educators translate the results into targeted interventions and improved reading outcomes? This reader-friendly teaching guide makes the next steps of literacy instruction clear and easy for K-6 educators.

In today's climate of increased accountability and diversity, alternative assessments for young children are more important than ever. That's why the timely new edition of this bestselling textbook is a must for all educators as they prepare to work with children who are culturally, linguistically, or developmentally diverse.

A children's alphabet book focusing on railroads, one of the most common interest of children with autism spectrum disorders. It presents many reading levels, with vocabulary ranging from basic concepts (bridge) to special train jargon (idler car, unit train).

Happier lives. Less stress. Family harmony. That's what all parents of children with challenging behaviour want. Learn how to get there with this groundbreaking guide to confident, skillful, and positive parenting. A book you'll want to share with every family you know, Optimistic Parenting helps parents and other caregivers develop more positive thoughts and perceptions - a key ingredient of successful parenting and effective behaviour management. With keen insight, gentle humour, and practical tools and strategies, Mark Durand delivers both philosophical hope and practical help to parents of children with a wide range of challenges.

Through a historical presentation of the relation of English phonics to spelling, writing, and reading, this book brings to teachers and reading researchers insights into the importance of phonics in education over several centuries.

A curriculum that offers the tools to set up and work through an exercise and nutrition education program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It includes strategies such as making choices, self-determination, self-efficacy, and rights and responsibility, as well as problem-solving techniques, and conflict resolution.

Shows teachers how to use scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in their everyday classroom instruction and improve their students' literacy outcomes. This book helps educators see the benefits of instruction based on research - and use it skillfully in classrooms to make their students better readers.

ELLCO was developed to measure classroom environments and their effects on early literacy and language development in pre-K through third grade. This work provides information on how to use and interpret the results, including guidelines for conducting classroom observations, limiting bias in scoring, scoring guidance, and providing feedback.

Helps administrators, supervisors, and program directors gather the crucial data schools need to strengthen classroom quality and build better literacy programs, both by improving teacher development and comparing their practices with others.

Guides special educators as they support students with disabilities in leading their own individualized education program (IEP) planning process. This volume provides examples to break the IEP development process down into the useful component parts.

Suitable for educators at every level, this book provides a comprehensive reference on vocabulary instruction. It is organized according to the elements of explicit instruction (what? why? when? and how?). It includes both a research-informed knowledge base and practical sample lesson models.

Social and emotional development in young children is a part of ensuring positive developmental outcomes later in life. This book serves as a guide to social and emotional development of young children. It offers information required to understand social and emotional development and how to support it.

Serves as a guide to behavior management for students with behavior problems that cannot be resolved through usual methods or are not affected by school-wide Positive Behavior Support (PBS). This manual helps school teams develop effective individualized solutions for students with persistent behavior problems.

Serves as an introductory guide to the origin, definition, and use of evidence-based practice in communication disorders. This book serves as a reference for speech-language pathologists and audiologists to the principles and process of evidence-based practice.

Aims to systematize the job development process by sharing replicable processes for transition-aged youth and adults with significant support needs and illustrating several urban and rural approaches to creative employment that blend funding streams, utilize SSA Work Incentives, and capitalize on the hidden jobs in small neighborhood companies.

Beautiful Beginnings is a collection of developmental activities designed for individualized use with infants and toddlers from birth to 36 months. The program features activities to enhance children's development in 8 areas: communication, gross motor, fine motor, intellectual, discovery, social, self-help and pretend.

Offers early interventionists information on the proper development of young children as well as risk factors and environmental circumstances that can hinder a child's development. This book covers prenatal and perinatal periods; and early detection and identification of developmental delays or disorders, and diseases.

Provides educators with useful guidelines on teaching language arts, math, and science to students with significant disabilities. This book offers practical suggestions for providing access to the general curriculum, and focuses on what to teach and how to teach. Moreover, it describes how to address academic content standards.

This practical book guides teachers and other school personnel in working with parents as a team to design, review, and modify individual education plans (IEPs) for children with special needs. The goal is for parents and school personnel to work collaboratively and to achieve decision-making by consensus.

Offers information on how to develop effective partnerships with parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Topics covered include how to be more sensitive to families' needs, how to make one's assumptions cohere with families' assumptions, and how best to approach controversial topics in treatment and research.