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Embracing Disabilities in the Classroom
Strategies to Maximize Students’ Assets
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Inclusive Education | Specific Learning Difficulties | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
Inclusive Education | Specific Learning Difficulties | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
June 2008 | 296 pages | Corwin
This book illustrates how teachers, students, families, and community members can foster positive inclusive experiences by differentiating not only instruction, but attitudes too! Content-rich interdisciplinary lessons are accompanied by behavioural, academic, and social interventions that capitalize upon students' strengths. The author demonstrates the impact of literature, self-advocacy, role playing, and strategic interventions that make the most of learners' potential by acknowledging and advocating their assets. The book offers lessons, tables, guidelines and charts to help teachers improve both interactions and reflection related to disabilities in school settings and beyond.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I. Introducing Disabilities
1. Historical Background of Disabilities
2. How Others Interact and Acknowledge Disabilities and Differences
Part II. Classroom Implications
3. Entering the Inclusion Classroom
4. Mastering the Curriculum
5. Content-Related Strategies and Lessons
6. Instructional Differentiation and Sensitivities That Respond to Students’ Behavioral, Social, Emotional, and Perceptual Needs
Part III. Schools, Families, and the Future
7. Increasing Disability Awareness and Better Attitudes for Families and All Communities
8. Future Horizons for Disabilities
Appendix A: Differentiating and Assessing Attitudes With Ability Awareness Rubrics
Appendix B: Enabling vs. Challenging Your Students
Appendix C: Student Data Documentation
Appendix D: Increasing Communications and Collaboration
References
Index