Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities: A Vision for the Future

ISBN-13: 9781598572704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str.

Martin Agran; Fredda Brown; Carolyn Hughes

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What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today--and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in the lives of people with severe disabilities; explore necessary reforms to policy and practice; and set clear goals and priorities for improving early intervention, education, health care, behavior supports, and social services. Whether used as a textbook or a professional reference, this innovative volume will help usher in a new era of services that support full inclusion and quality of life for people with severe disabilities.

COVERS TODAY'S MOST CRITICAL TOPICS:

• Addressing inequities in our educational and social services system
• Designing and delivering effective early intervention and education
• Expanding and improving inclusive education
• Supporting families of children with severe disabilities
• Resolving challenges to person-centered planning and self-determination
• Providing effective and respectful positive behavior supports
• Improving access to the general curriculum
• Delivering effective literacy instruction to students with severe disabilities
• Removing barriers to friendships and social relationships
• Supporting students with health care needs in general education classrooms
• Promoting access to postsecondary education, employment, and community life
• Providing appropriate medical and social services to elderly individuals with severe disabilities

ONLINE COMPANION MATERIALS: This book comes with online PowerPoint slides for faculty, ideal for complementing and enhancing lessons.

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• About the Online Companion Materials
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Foreword David L. Westling and Barbara Trader
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• I Foundations
• 1. Disability in the 21st Century: Seeking a Future of Equity and Full Participation, Michael Wehmeyer
• 2. Poverty and Disability: Addressing the Ties that Bind, Carolyn Hughes and Latanya L. Fanion
• 3. Forty Years of Living and Thriving with Disabilities: Perceptions of a Self-Advocate and Her Family, Michelle Sommerstein, Lynn Sommerstein, Robert Sommerstein, David Sommerstein, and Diane Ryndak
• 4. Person-Centered Planning and the Quest for Systems Change, John O'Brien
• 5. Promoting Self-Determination and Self-Directed Learning, Martin Agran and Carolyn Hughes
• 6. Providing Respectful Behavior Supports, Fredda Brown and Linda M. Bambara
• II Children and Youth
• 7. Early Intervention and Early Education, Lise Fox, Mary Frances Hanline, Juliann Woods, and Ann Mickelson
• 8. Inclusive Education and Meaningful School Outcomes, John McDonnell and Pam Hunt
• 9. Literacy and Communication, Susan Copeland, Elizabeth Keefe, and J.S. de Valenzuela
• 10. Social Interactions and Friendships, Erik W. Carter, Kristen Bottema-Beutel, and Matthew E. Brock
• 11. Access to the General Education Curriculum in General Education Classes, Fred Spooner, Bethany R. McKissick, Melissa E. Hudson, and Diane M. Browder
• 12. Serving Students with Health Care Needs, Donna Lehr
• III Adult Outcomes
• 13.Ensuring Employment Outcomes: Preparing Students for a Working Life, Michael Callahan, John Butterworth, Jane Boone, Ellen Condon, and Richard Luecking
• 14. Postsecondary Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Meg Grigal, Debra Hart, and Cate Weir
• 15. Evolving Narratives in Community Living, Lyle T. Romer and Pamela Walker
• 16. Serving an Elderly Population, Christine Bigby, Philip McCallion, and Mary McCarron
• 17. Medicaid Waivers and Medicare Support: A 21st-Century Perspective, Tom Nerney, Julie Marron, and Mike Head
• IV A Look Around and Ahead
• 18. Societal Inclusion and Equity Internationally: Initiatives, Illustrations, Challenges, and RecommendationsDiane Ryndak, Deborah S. Reed, Grzegorz Szumski, Ann-Marie Orlando, Joanna Smogorzewska, and Wei Gao
• 19. Future Directions and Possibilities, Martha E. Snell and Virginia L. Walker
• Index