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An assessment and intervention approach for children birth to age six. While the child engages in natural play, professionals use the guidelines and developmental information to assess 4 domains - sensorimotor, emotional and social, communication and language, and cognition - and gather qualitative information about what the child can do.

Transform struggling readers into successful readers with this field-tested, evidence-based phonological awareness programme. This curriculum is the ideal way to deliver systematic, intensive phonological awareness instruction to students in Grades K-2, whether they have language impairments or just need extra help with literacy skills.

An in-depth, easy-to-use tool, the two-part SEAM(TM) assessment reveals detailed qualitative information on young children's social-emotional competence?and identifies their caregivers? strengths and areas of need.

Updated with a new and improved assessment approach, more self-employment success stories, and the latest on policy changes and online opportunities, this book is your step-by-step guide to helping adults with disabilities get a small business off to a strong start.

This NEW edition is the friendly how-to book educators need to increase desired behavior in today's K-12 classrooms.

How can today's educators teach academic content to students with moderate and severe developmental disabilities? This text has answers for K-12 teachers, straight from 37 experts in special and general education. This important text prepares teachers to ensure more inclusion, more advanced academic content, and more meaningful learning for their students.

With a strong emphasis on collaboration among all members of the education team, this text leads professionals step by step through every aspect of successful preschool inclusion, from designing an effective program to preparing all children for a smooth transition to kindergarten.

Help transform struggling K-3 students into skillful, enthusiastic readers-in just 20 to 30 minutes a day! It's all possible with the NEW edition of this bestselling curriculum supplement, your key to helping all students grasp the five Big Ideas of early literacy: phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

This handbook includes methods to help schools and programmes make the transition to kindergarten happen smoothly. The guide is built around a model that has been adopted in many diverse schools and communities. It helps professionals develop a transition plan and implement the plan.

Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges faced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders and Asperger syndrome. Help them conquer their fears - and participate more fully in home, school, and community life - with this innovative group therapy program for children 8-14 years old and their parents.

Reading problems don't disappear when students enter middle school-recent studies show that nearly a quarter of today's eighth graders aren't able to read at a basic level.* This book arms language arts teachers with the lessons, strategies, and foundational knowledge they need to resolve older students' reading difficulties and increase their chances for academic success.Ideal for use with struggling readers in Grades 6-8, this book clearly lays out the fundamentals of effective teaching for adolescents with reading difficulties. Teachers will discover how to select and administer assessments for comprehension, fluency, and word recognition use assessment results to plan individualized instruction apply research-supported instructional practices develop flexible grouping systems so students get the targeted instruction they need set manageable short-term learning goals with students keep the pacing of instruction quick and energetic so students stay engaged give appropriate positive and corrective feedback monitor student progress over time promote generalization of new reading skills provide effective interventions within a school-wide Response to Intervention frameworkTo help teachers incorporate evidence-based practices into their classroom instruction, they'll get more than 20 complete, step-by-step sample lessons for strengthening adolescents' reading skills. Easy to adapt for use across any curriculum, the sample lessons provide explicit models of successful instruction, with suggested teacher scripts, checklists for planning instruction, key terms and objectives, strategies for guided and independent practice, tips on promoting generalization, and more.With this practical guide to high-quality instruction, middle school teachers will help struggling readers develop the skills they need to master complex academic content and succeed inside and outside the classroom.With 20+ step-by-step sample lessons that improve Fluency Comprehension Word recognition Vocabulary *National Center for Education Statistics, 2011

To succeed in increasingly diverse classrooms, tomorrow's special educators need explicit training on working effectively with all families. Prepare the next generation of teachers with this accessible text, developed by two highly respected experts on cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusive education.

For adolescents with reading disabilities, struggles with comprehension are a major obstacle to mastering academic content areas. Help resolve comprehension difficulties with this practical text, developed for use with students in Grades 6 12 with and without disabilities. An ideal supplementary text for preservice special and general educators and a great resource for inservice teachers looking for new comprehension strategies this book is the key to understanding what's behind comprehension struggles and which strategies make a real difference for adolescent readers. Teachers will discover how to improve students' reading comprehension across content areas with specific, evidence-based strategies such as mnemonics that help remember and retrieve important information graphic organizers that highlight key information and clarify abstract concepts The Embedded Story Structure Routine, which teaches self-questioning, story structure analysis, and summary writing Teachers will get complete overviews of each strategy and how-to guidance based on recommended practice. With the proven, research-based strategies in this textbook, educators will be fully prepared to improve adolescents' comprehension skills and ensure that all students are confident, motivated readers.

Today's American families are more complex and diverse than ever before and today's child and family professionals must be fully prepared to meet their needs. Interventionists educators, health care professionals, therapists, and social workers will get the strong foundation they need with the NEW edition of this trusted textbook, a comprehensive guide to working effectively and respectfully with contemporary families. Highly respected experts Marci Hanson and Eleanor Lynch have expanded and updated their bestselling text, weaving in cutting-edge research on social, demographic, and economic changes and connecting the research to best practices in family-centered care. With a strong emphasis on family resilience, this book gets preservice and in-service professionals ready to work with a broad range of families with diverse structures, backgrounds, and circumstances advance strong parent child attachment and interactions match services and supports with each family's desired goals and outcomes support families of children with disabilities address risk factors such as poverty, addiction, and violence With this cornerstone textbook, the new generation of child and family professionals will have the research and practical guidance they need to improve the lives and outcomes of 21st-century families.

Prepares teachers to see past disability labels and work with all students' individual needs and strengths. Accessible and forward-thinking, this introductory text will get teachers ready to work effectively within today's educational system and meet the learning needs of a wide range of students.

Teach fundamental literacy skills to students in pre-K through sixth grade with this introductory reading textbook, filled with cutting-edge research, best-practice guidelines, and practical classroom examples and exercises.

Number sense is a key indicator of future math success. Now there's a quick, reliable, and affordable way to screen early numerical competencies and identify students at risk for later math struggles. A pack of 25 record sheets.