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Exceptional Students: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century

ISBN10: 1260804291 | ISBN13: 9781260804294

Exceptional Students: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century
ISBN10: 1260804291
ISBN13: 9781260804294
By Ronald Taylor, Lydia Smiley and Stephen Richards

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Exceptional Students: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century provides balanced coverage of the foundations of exceptionalities that future teachers need to know to understand their students and responsibilities, and the practical information they need to effectively teach their students.

Part One Special Education: Fundamentals and Processes

Chapter 1 An Overview of Special Education

Chapter 2 The Special Education Process: From Initial Indentification to the Delivery of Services

Chapter 3 School, Family, and Community Collaboration

Part Two IDEA High-Prevalence Exceptionalities: Foundations and Instruction

Chapter 4 Students with Learning Disabilities

Chapter 5 Students with Intellectual Disabilities

Chapter 6 Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders

Chapter 7 Students with Communication Disorders

Part Three Idea Low-Incidence Exceptionalities: Foundations and Instruction

Chapter 8 Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Chapter 9 Students who are Blind or have Low Vision

Chapter 10 Students with Physical or Health Disabilities

Chapter 11 Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Chapter 12 Students with Severe Disabilities

Part Four Other Exceptionalities: Foundations and Instruction

Chapter 13 Students who are at Risk: Early Identification and Intervention

Chapter 14 Students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Chapter 15 Students who are Gifted and Talented

About the Author

Ronald Taylor

Lydia Smiley

Lydia R. Smiley, Ph.D, is a professor of Exceptional Student Education at Florida Atlantic University. She received her doctorate in Special Education from Georgia State University. Dr. Smiley co-authored Language delays and disorders: From research to practice (1998) and has also written several articles and chapters on a variety of topics. She taught both undergraduate and graduate classes and was the recipient of several teaching awards and the CLD Professional of the Year award. Her current interests are in methods of teaching students with mild/moderate disabilities and language disorders.

Stephen Richards

Stephen B. Richards, Ed.D, is Associate Professor of Education at West Liberty University in West Virginia. He currently teaches in the undergraduate special education certificate program at West Liberty University, a regional comprehensive university in West Virginia’s northern panhandle. He received his doctorate in Special Education from Florida Atlantic University. He has coauthored three textbooks, Intellectual/Cognitive Disabilities: Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions (2015), Collaboration Among Professionals, Students, Families and Communities (2016), and Single Subject Research and Design: Applications in Educational Settings (in press, 3rd ed.), in addition to journal articles on a variety of topics. His current interests are in assessing the preparation of pre-service teacher education candidates for their first year in teaching.

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