| Description |
xvii, 474 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-451) and indexes. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Foundations for Instruction -- The Learners and Their Teachers -- Schools, Society, and Achievement -- Special Programs -- Compensatory Education Programs -- Special Education Programs -- Section 504 Services -- Special Students: Their Schools and Teachers -- Oak Hill Elementary School -- Apple County Middle School and Apple County High School -- Learners with Mild Disabilities -- Services, Labels, and Children with Mild Disabilities -- Cognitive Characteristics -- Intellectual Ability -- Attentional Deficits -- Memory and Thinking Skills -- Academic Characteristics -- Reading -- Language Arts -- Mathematics -- Social-Emotional Characteristics -- Individualizing Instruction -- The Individualized Education Program -- Approaches to Teaching Learners with Mild Disabilities -- Services, Curriculum, and Instruction -- Services -- Curriculum -- Instruction -- Issues Regarding Special Education Services, Instruction, and Inclusion -- Popular Teaching Approaches and Fads -- Stimulus Reduction -- Multisensory Approaches and Modality-Based Instruction -- Diet/Drug Therapies -- Fads -- Research-Based Approaches -- Applied Behavior Analysis -- Direct Instruction -- Cognitive Strategy Instruction -- Peer Tutoring -- Cooperative Learning -- Authentic Learning -- Consultation and Collaboration -- Organizing for Instruction -- Communicating for Student Success -- Consulting and Collaborating -- Communication Skills -- Consultation -- Collaboration -- Collaborative Teaching to Facilitate Inclusion -- Parents as Partners. |
| Subject |
Children with disabilities -- Education -- United States -- Case studies.
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Special education -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Meese, Ruth Lyn. Teaching learners with mild disabilities. Pacific Grove, Calif. : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c1994 (OCoLC)621645131 |
| ISBN |
053421102X |
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9780534211028 |
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