Bringing ABA into Your Inclusive Classroom: A Guide to Improving Outcomes for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Applied behavior analysis (ABA) is a highly effective, rigorously researched intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders, but most teachers don’t get the training they need to put it to work in their inclusive classroom. That’s why every K-12 educator needs this practical guidebook, packed with teaching plans and plain-English guidance on using ABA to… More Bringing ABA into Your Inclusive Classroom: A Guide to Improving Outcomes for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Build It So They Can Play

Are tight budgets forcing you to do more with less? With “Build it so They Can Play” you can turn less expensive into more fun for your child or students. Grab your tool belt and start building a positive experience for all! A great resource for physical education teachers, caregivers, and play group and recreation leaders… More Build It So They Can Play

Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs

This book is the lifeline preschool teachers need to fully include children with disabilities in their classrooms. Easy to use with any existing curriculum, Building Blocks gives educators three types of practical, research-based inclusion strategies that promote progress in critical areas like behavior, emergent literacy, and peer relationships. Through clear and instructive vignettes woven throughout… More Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs

Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups: Developmentally Appropriate Practice

This guide is designed to help care-givers, program directors, coordinators, administrators, trainers, licensors, families, and leaders in the field of early care and education recognize the special knowledge and skills needed to offer a nurturing group care environment to very young children. Contributors discuss meeting the needs of each individual child, recognizing early developmental stages,… More Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups: Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Caring for Young Children with Special Needs

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This easy-to-use guide gives you a quick overview on many topics related to working with young children with special needs. Learn about inclusion in early childhood programs and disability law, as well as typical vs. atypical development. The quick guide also covers several specific disabilities/special needs and provides definitions, common characteristics, and practical strategies for… More Caring for Young Children with Special Needs

Certain Proof: A Question of Worth (DVD)

Certain Proof follows the lives of three children with cerebral palsy and their struggle with school in an emotional battle to prove their worth. Despite significant disabilities, Josh, Colin and Kay fight to prove they are able to learn and deserve to be taught. Facing relentless barriers to a meaningful education, their mothers try to… More Certain Proof: A Question of Worth (DVD)

Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively (4th Edition)

Stressing that every child has some kind of special need, especially children with challenging behavior, this book contains numerous practical, indispensable tips for responding to those needs, building relationships with children and their families, and preventing challenging behavior. It provides teachers with background information that enables them to understand why children behave the way they… More Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively (4th Edition)

Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers – Teaching Students With Tourette’s, Bipolar Disorder, Executive Dysfunction, OCD, ADHD, and More

Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers is an educator’s go-to source for creating a supportive environment to successfully teach children with multiple neurological disorders including Tourette’s Syndrome, OCD, ADHD, LD, Nonverbal Learning Disability, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Asperger’s Syndrome, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Executive Dysfunction, Sensory Processing Disorder, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep (PANDAS), Bipolar Disorder, “Storms”… More Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers – Teaching Students With Tourette’s, Bipolar Disorder, Executive Dysfunction, OCD, ADHD, and More

Children And Youth Assisted By Medical Technology In Educational Settings: Guideline for Care

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Containing detailed daily care guidelines and emergency-response techniques, this book includes information on working with a range of students, including those who have HIV infection, rely on ventilators, utilize tube feeding, or require catheterization. This hands-on reference helps school nurses, teachers, parents, school administrators, and health aides provide crucial care and support. Education-specific chapters cover every aspect… More Children And Youth Assisted By Medical Technology In Educational Settings: Guideline for Care

Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits

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An evidence-based coaching model for helping students whose academic performance is suffering due to deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. In just a few minutes a day, coaches can provide crucial support and instruction tailored to individual students’ needs. The book provides detailed guidelines for… More Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits

Creating Inclusion and Well-Being for Marginalized Students: Whole-School Approaches to Supporting Children’s Grief, Loss, and Trauma

It is increasingly challenging for teachers to educate without a deeper understanding of the experience of their students. This is particularly the case in marginalized groups of young people who are subject to loss, grief, trauma and shame. Through a snapshot of the diverse student populous, this book explores the impact of these experiences on… More Creating Inclusion and Well-Being for Marginalized Students: Whole-School Approaches to Supporting Children’s Grief, Loss, and Trauma

Creative Resources For The Anti-Bias Classroom

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This text on anti-bias activities integrates information about developmentally based planning and child development that reflects the current diversities of our society. Experiences have been designed to promote the positive self-esteem of each individual child, support the value of others’ uniqueness and enable children to think critically about discrimination and acquire skills in pro-activism. Activities… More Creative Resources For The Anti-Bias Classroom

Defusing Disruptive Behavior In The Classroom

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When disruptive behavior occurs, your first response can determine how quickly the situation is resolved. These research-based approaches for defusing disruptions such as off-task behavior, disrespect, and noncompliance help teachers avoid escalation, correct misbehaviors, and maintain the flow of instruction!

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know… More Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Destination Friendship – Developing Social Skills for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders or Other Social Challenges

Written by a team of two special educators, a speech-language pathologist, and an occupational therapist, Destination Friendship provides easy-to-use, research-based strategies and activities that support the development of friendship skills in children with ASD within an active and fun learning environment. The Friendship Skills Checklist, a valuable tool included in this book, enables the user… More Destination Friendship – Developing Social Skills for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders or Other Social Challenges

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8

Early childhood practitioners and students will find a wealth of information .. like overviews of children’s development and learning in four periods of life: the infant and toddler years, the preschool years, the kindergarten year, and the primary grades. Pages of specific examples for each age period describing key practices seen in high-quality early childhood… More Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8

Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Positive Approach to Behavior Management

Book Cover, Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Positive Approach to Behavior Management

This third edition of Discipline in the Secondary Classroom is a treasure trove of practical advice, tips, checklists, reproducibles, and ready-to-use activities that will save secondary teachers time and help them become more effective educators. Both new and seasoned teachers will find the book invaluable for designing a management plan that prevents problems, motivates students,… More Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Positive Approach to Behavior Management

Discover Your Child’s Learning Style

Does your child learn best in the morning, afternoon, or evening? Does his reading comprehension increase or decrease when music is played in the background? Does she prefer to study alone or with others? According to nationally respected educators Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson, our children process information in a multitude of unique ways.… More Discover Your Child’s Learning Style