Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Special Education - Learning Disabilities

Accessing up-to-date information about general and specific learning difficulties is made easy, with this indispensable reference book. Covering difficulties that relate to children, adolescents and adults, it includes:

• crucial legislation to keep practitioners 'in the know'
• useful addresses, telephone numbers and websites

It also includes explanations of leaning difficulties including those less than well-known syndromes such as semantic pragmatic difficulties.

Improve Your Quality of Life with Social Skills Coaching

Social language is much like any other language, and social language skills are like any other skills, they can be learned and improved with practice. If we think about the skills required for any sport, we know right away that the role of the coach is critical. The same is true for social language. The difference is that being coached on our social skills is new to us. This quick guide covers what social coaching is and how social skills coaching can be beneficial for anyone, leading them to a more fulfilling life. Some of...

This short series of three books - -Number-, -Shape and Space- and -Measures and Handling Data- - gives teachers and parents a range of ideas to help children with mathematical learning difficulties get to grip with mathematics. In order to help these children effectively, statements and teaching points need to be rephrased and produced in a variety of ways, using concrete and pictorial aids.

The activities in these books aim to help teachers to offer children a wide-ranging mathematical vocabulary - adding meaning to the words children already use rather than just adding...

These creative off-the-shelf activities will spark children's thinking skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing. Busy teachers wanting to shake up their lessons will find them indispensable. Includes:

• problem-solving: creative and critical thinking; emotional thinking; questioning skills and plan-do-review formats
• clear explanation of underpinning theory
• advice on differentiating activities
• links to the National Literacy Strategy Framework.

The SLS User's Manual explains the development, administration, scoring, and interpration of the Student Language Scale (SLS). The SLS is a simple, cost-effective way to screen for language and literacy disorders, including dyslexia. This quick and easy 12-question screener is filled out by parents, teachers, and students to show each party's perspective on how the student is performing on academic tasks as compared to their same-age peers.

The SLS helps you:

• Screen for language/literacy disorders such as dyslexia by gathering teachers' and parents' ratings...