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Learners with Mild Disabilities discusses students with disabilities with respect to their individual strengths and needs, considering their cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics.

This text focuses on four high-prevalence disabilities: mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, ADHD, and behavioral disorders. It begins with a discussion of the traditional categorical perspective, and then moves to the perspective of alternative, non-categorical frameworks. The reader is encouraged to apply these conceptual frameworks through analysis of the many vignettes and extended case studies in the text—stories that are drawn from the experiences of real children and teachers. This book emphasizes the complex nature of mild disabilities and provides an alternative to the notion that these are discrete disabilities.

• Part II examines individual mild disabilities and Part III provides a non-categorical framework, giving students detailed information about specific categories of disability, as well as the broader issues, needs, and educational solutions that are common among all children with mild disabilities.

• Extended Case studies at the end of each chapter develop the reader's analytical skills and stimulate the complex thinking needed by special educators in their work.

• IDEA 1997 information familiarizes prospective teachers with the most up-to-date changes about the laws governing their practice.

• “Vignettes” and examples throughout help illustrate concepts, facilitating understanding.

• Each chapter includes a “Focus on Diversity and Culture” section to highlight issues related to diversity and culture and how they relate to the concept of disability.

• Chapters have been reorganized for ease of use.

All chapters include “Summary.”

Preface.

I. SETTING THE STAGE.

II. WHO ARE LEARNERS WITH MILD DISABILITIES?

III. WHAT ARE LEARNERS WITH MILD DISABILITIES LIKE?

10. Cognitive and Perceptual Characteristics.

11. Language Characteristics.

12. Academic Learning Characteristics.

13. Social Emotional Characteristics.

Appendix A. Policy Statements.

Appendix B. Legislation and Litigation.Glossary.References.Index.

Mild / Moderate Disabilities - Characteristics  (Special Education)

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  Learners with Mild Disabilities: A Characteristics Approach, 3/E
  Raymond
  ©2008 | Merrill | Paper; 432 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205519148 | ISBN-13: 9780205519149
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  Learners with Mild Disabilities focuses on four high-prevalence disabilities: mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, and ADHD, as well as briefer consideration of other mild conditions such as Asperger Syndrome.  This text looks first at disability from conventional categorical perspectives, and then focuses on the perspective of alternative, non-categorical frameworks. 

   

  This text describes students with disabilities with respect to their individual strengths and needs, considering their cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics. The reader is encouraged to apply these conceptual frameworks through analysis of the numerous vignettes and extended case studies throughout the text, stories drawn from the experiences of real children and teachers. The separate categorical approaches around which other texts are organized tend to reinforce the notion of discrete disabilities, which current experience and philosophical discussions in the field of special education increasingly do not support and which do not prepare new special educators for the complex nature of services for students with mild disabilities. 

   

  Learners with Mild Disabilities is designed as a primary text for use in undergraduate and graduate courses addressing the characteristics of learners with high prevalence or milder levels of disability and is useful as a text for the first specialized course in a special education program. It supports programs in “generic special education,” a growing area of study as a number of states move toward generic or non-categorical certification.

The students you teach.

With a clear focus on the nature and characteristics of students with the four most prevalent disabilities, this revision allows students and professors to concentrate on the issues that most commonly faced in a school setting. The text explores the cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics of students with Mild Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Emotional/Behavioral Disorders.

With real stories and cases, and additional resources on the web, this book provides students and teachers with a clearer understanding of the ways children with these disabilities present themselves in the classroom, provides strategies for use when teaching these individuals, and emphasizes the complex nature of mild disabilities.

“...I am impressed by (Learners with Mild Disabilities) “global view” and the reality of dealing with a cluster of issues around individuals with mild disabilities. This book begins with a realistic and promising premise that is useful from a functional educational perspective...the case studies and initial descriptions were superb and resulted in excellent discussions in my class.”
Bernard H. Graney, PhD, CRC, Springfield College

“...both undergraduate and graduate students find the text very user friendly and written at an appropriate intellectual level.”
Diane M. Gut, Ohio University

“I LOVED the BEST PRACTICES SECTIONS, they are a very nice addition to the text.”
Moniqueka E. Gold, Ed.D, Austin Peay State University

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
Allyn & Bacon
©2001 | Merrill | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205319602 | ISBN-13: 9780205319602
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Allyn & Bacon & Longman
©2007 | Merrill | Paper | Instock
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©2001 | Merrill | Paper | Instock
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