Exceptional Lives Practice, Progress, & Dignity in Today's Schools
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“Comprehensive, up-to-date, trustworthy.” <br /> – Kathleen Puckett, Arizona State University <br /> <br /> “This text is excellent... Love the interactive activities and videos. That is a true strength... Exceptional Lives] is more engaging and interactive [than other texts]. I strive to do this on my own with my online courses, but this text makes it really easy...” <br /> – Melinda Pierson, California State University, Fullerton <br /> <br /> “Love the videos, vignettes & summaries.... I love this text — I switched to this a few years ago due to the Inclusive emphasis for our dual program. This... really set them up for the basic intro and then the start of... practice.” <br /> – April Regester, University of Missouri, St. Louis <br /> <br /> “The writing style is interesting, clear, and engaging... This textbook clearly addresses inclusive practices for all students... [and] presents a modern introduction of special education that is respectful of individuals with disabilities.” <br /> – Karen Potter, New Mexico State University <br /> <br /> “The case studies overall were outstanding as were the very thorough definitional sections that covered characteristics and etiology of specific disabilities.” – Cathy Thomas, University of Missouri
Exceptional Lives: Practice, Progress, & Dignity in Today’s Schools pairs real-life stories about children, their families, and their educators with the most recent evidence-based research on inclusion of students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment.
The 9th Edition highlights the important themes of ensuring students’ progress using research-based instruction and the ethical principle of dignity. New chapters examine educational progress and long-term outcomes; school-wide supports; cross-cutting instructional approaches; and diversity and social justice. With its focus on real students, stories, and solutions, Exceptional Lives gives readers a comprehensive view of the rewards, challenges, and triumphs involved in special education today.
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- The Purposes, People, and Law of Special Education
- Disability and Cultural Justice
- Today’s Families and Their Partnerships with Professionals
- Ensuring Educational Progress
- School-wide Systems of Supports
- Cross-cutting Instructional Approaches
- Students with Learning Disabilities
- Students with Speech and Language Disorders
- Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
- Students with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Students with Intellectual Disability
- Students with Autism
- Students with Multiple Disabilities and Traumatic Brain Injury
- Students with Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairments
- Students with Hearing Impairments
- Students with Visual Impairments
- Students Who Are Gifted and Talented
- Real-world chapter-opening vignettes tell the stories of actual students with exceptionalities, their families, their teachers, and the other important professionals who impact their lives.
- My Voice features highlight the collaborations, challenges, and triumphs involved in special education through the first-person experiences of students, families, and teachers.
- Into Practice features describe practical, step-by-step strategies. Every categorical chapter presents strategies across grade levels to give all prospective teachers real-life examples.
- Inclusion Tips provide helpful advice and strategies for inclusion in regard to including students with specific disability issues in the general curriculum.
- NEW: A focus on educational progress reflects the recent Supreme Court decision (2017) that says special educators must offer their students an education that is appropriately ambitious and offers them challenging objectives (Chapter 1).
- NEW: A chapter on diversity and cultural justice describes the progress of the civil rights movement in education; summarizes research findings about cultural bias related to disability and race; teaches readers about how disability intersects challenges of students from diverse populations and provides strategies for teaching restorative practices and being a culturally responsive teacher (Chapter 3).
- NEW: A chapter on progress examines how the Supreme Court decision affects special education teaching and learning (Chapter 4).
- NEW: A chapter on school-wide supports describes the most common and most research-based tiered systems to promote educational progress and self-determination: school-wide positive behavior intervention and supports (SW-PBIS); response to intervention (RTI) and comprehensive, integrated 3-tiered systems (Ci3T) (Chapter 5).
- NEW: A chapter on cross-cutting instructional approaches focuses on designing learning environments that promote students' progress (Chapter 6).