Product Description: This most recent revision of Assessing Learners with Special Needs: An Applied Approach includes thorough explanations of the IDEA 2004 Regulations including RTI (response to intervention) and Early Intervening Services. Moreover, this text includes more applied exercises within the textbook...read more

This most recent revision of Assessing Learners with Special Needs: An Applied Approach includes thorough explanations of the IDEA 2004 Regulations including RTI (response to intervention) and Early Intervening Services. Moreover, this text includes more applied exercises within the textbook. To address the increasing importance of accurate assessment of students with pervasive developmental disorders such as autism, the most widely researched diagnostic instruments are included.   Students using this textbook will be able to understand progress monitoring through applied exercises in which they monitor their own progress in the course, plot a goal line, and chart their progress across the semester. Students and instructors are provided with chapter-by-chapter CEC Knowledge and Skills Standards. This allows students to see the skills they are expected to master when they complete coursework that is aligned for CEC Accreditation and provides the students with an understanding of the knowledge base expected of today’s highly qualified teachers.   All complex concepts are included in the culminating chapter exercises on educational assessment report writing. In these exercises, students will apply their knowledge and skills needed for understanding and making data-based decisions for educational planning using both formal and informal assessment methods.   Highlights of the New Edition: Emphasis on progress monitoring, including progress monitoring applied to the acquisition of knowledge and skills presented in this text. Changes within the assessment process according to the regulations of IDEA 2004. Increased number of case studies throughout the text and inclusion of exercises in the text. Expanded chapter on special considerations including assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Increased emphasis and coverage of curriculum-based assessment. Increased consideration of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the assessment process. (view table of contents)

Product Description: See Early Childhood Special Education for description. May be used as a supplement to a core book for Behavior Management. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Appropriate for courses in Behavior Management. Highly applications-oriented, this student-friendly text promotes an understanding of both the technical and functional aspects of applied behavior analysis, and examines appropriate implementation strategies for managing behavior wherever adults supervise the activities of children and adolescents-in the classroom, at day care centers, even at home. Based on solid theory, it integrates many practical applications, field-based examples and case studies throughout to substantiate the material covered. The third edition emphasizes teaching and reinforcing appropriate behavior and social skills, a technique believed to be the most effective behavior management strategy. This text is designed for use in undergraduate and graduate behavior management, classroom management, or applied behavior management courses and is appropriate for pre-service and in-service teachers in regular and special education environments at all levels-preschool, elementary, and secondary. In addition, this text will have value to educational administrators, counselors, psychologists, and social workers.

Product Description: A landmark text, this volume systematically addresses the issues involved in developing behavioral assessment strategies for educational--rather than clinical--settings. The theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of widely used assessment methods are discussed, and their strengths and limitations evaluated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This manual provides school-based mental health professionals with a user-friendly resource for conducting effective functional behavioral assessments (FBAs) and for creating appropriate behavior intervention plans (BIPs). It addresses topics such as practical, legal, and ethical reasons for conducting an FBA; individual and contextual factors affecting behavior; identifying conditions that predict behavior; identifying strengths, incentives, and replacement behaviors; cultural considerations; and linking assessment to intervention...read more

Product Description: Questions concerning whether and how the rights of minorities should be recognized in politics, and how to maintain and strengthen the bonds of community in ethnically diverse societies, are among the most salient and vexing on the political agenda of many societies...read more

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