Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Special Education - Learning Disabilities

A practical resource filled with information, tips, and checklists for helping kids with autism

This useful, accessible guide offers teachers and parents a better understanding of children on the autism spectrum and provides them with the kinds of support and intervention they need. Written in an easy-to-read checklist format, the book is filled with up-to-date research, practical advice, and helpful resources on a wide range of topics. The book covers five areas: basic information on autism, checklists for parents, checklists for teachers, effective support strategies, and helpful...

This valuable resource helps teachers who want to sharpen their skills in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities. The classroom-tested, research-proven strategies offered in this book work with all struggling students who have difficulties with writing-even those who have not been classified as learning disabled. The book offers a review of basic skills-spelling, punctuation, and capitalization-and includes instructional strategies to help children who...

What to look for when a child is struggling in school and what can be done at home and at school to help them succeed

This practical resource for parents and teachers explains how to understand a child's complete learning profile-an inventory of his or her unique strengths and weaknesses-and provides helpful strategies that can be used at school and at home to get the child on a path to success. The book walks readers through the process of gathering clues about the child's learning style and provides guidelines for selecting the most appropriate learning strategies that will...

STAR TRACK is for pupils who have not gained any skills from a random exposure to text and need a guided introduction to the rules of literacy.

STAR TRACK'S structured worksheets and stories introduce the pupil to only one phonic element at a time.

STAR TRACK builds skills cumulatively, and confidence is established because the pupil is never asked to read what he has not been taught.

STAR TRACK'S photocopiable masters provide material for class work, homework, easy assessment and record-keeping.

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High/Low Handbook helps you understand--and satisfy--the needs of disabled (below fourth-grade reading level) or reluctant (lacking in motivation) junior high and senior high readers. This practical resource guides you to a core collection of over 400 recommended books, magazines, software, and other nonprint materials. Incisive essays by practitioners and specialists in the field discuss such literacy efforts as reading with closed-captioned TV, using computers to capture reading attention, and the California Reading Initiative.