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Publisher
Prufrock Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The second edition of Smart Kids With Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential provides useful, practical advice for helping smart kids with learning challenges succeed in school, updated to reflect the legislation and educational practices. Topics covered in the book include: identifying and recognizing gifted/learning disabled students, what the law says about this population, planning and developing accommodations that...
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Since first being identified as a distinct psychiatric disorder in 1943, autism has been steeped in contestation and controversy. Present-day skirmishes over the potential causes of autism, how or even if it should be treated, and the place of Asperger's syndrome on the autism spectrum are the subjects of intense debate in the research community, in the media, and among those with autism and their families. Bringing together innovative work on autism...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Canaries Among Us explores one of the most widespread threats to children's well-being: a lack of acceptance. Kayla Taylor starts her day as an ordinary parent at a respected school, but her family's life turns upside-down when her child becomes the prime target of bullying. Taylor assumes the school will partner with her to solve the problem but is confounded when she finds the opposite: officials not only turn a blind eye to cruelty but also ostracize...
Author
Publisher
Brookes Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading. In order for students to read and gain new understanding from texts, teachers must fully understand how to teach comprehension to a variety of learners. This supplemental textbook brings together a broad body of research on reading comprehension instruction for special education middle school and high school students in inclusive classrooms. It serves as a resource for classroom teachers as well as a...
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