Nancy Russell Burger is a freelance writer whose nine-year-old son, Jimmy, was diagnosed with NLD at the age of four. She lives in Redding, Connecticut with her husband David, Jimmy and seven-year-old daughter Shawn.
Supporting Exceptional Teachers, Students, and Families
This book is a practical reference guide that provides the most up-to-date information, real-world examples, and resources to guide those who work and live with our struggling students.
Drawing on the work of innovative educators, this edited volume shows how adopting a solutions focused approach can offer new constructive ways forward for special education. Diverse international contributors from both the world of special education and solutions focused thinking, offer ways to rethink special education and to focus on what ......
A practical literature resource for teachers and therapists working with children and adults with learning disabilities, this new book uses the context of Shakespeare's Macbeth to develop the skills of social cognition. The resource includes practical activities based on the play, a framework for linking skills of social cognition to the drama ......
This book provides original insights and optional strategies for teaching bright struggling students. Addressing the multiple interferences to learning, the novel techniques ensure rapid skills mastery. Created to support Dyslexic learners, all students will benefit from the creative methods introduced.
This book provides original insights and optional strategies for teaching bright struggling students. Addressing the multiple interferences to learning, the novel techniques ensure rapid skills mastery. Created to support Dyslexic learners, all students will benefit from the creative methods introduced.
The most complete sexuality education text on the market for educators, social workers, and counselors working with or preparing to work with students with disabilities and their families.
The most complete sexuality education text on the market for educators, social workers, and counselors working with or preparing to work with students with disabilities and their families.
Sensory Stories are short stories of a few lines which are brought to life through a selection of meaningful sensory experiences. They are particularly beneficial for students with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other special educational needs (SEN).For ......
We learn about the world constantly through our senses and by interacting with it. Children explore and play in different environments and in doing so they find out what burns them or hurts them, what can be eaten, which things smell nice and what different sounds signify. This process of exploration and learning continues throughout our lives. ......
Dr. Heather MacKenzie, a speech-language pathologist and educator by profession, has spent the past fifteen years of her 30-year career understanding the enigma of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). She has developed a Learning Preferences and Strengths model designed to determine each child's learning preferences and strengths and then ......
These quick-guides contain brief, to-the-poi nt suggestions that can be used to improve inclusion skills. They cover such topics as students with disabilities in the classroom, getting the most out of support services and bui lding partnerships with parents. '
A guide for making successful transitions to postsecondary education for students with high-incidence or hidden disabilities. It provides the information teachers, related services personnel and parents need to help students succeed.
Over the years, many quick fix approaches to cure dyslexia have been developed and used. These 'miracle cures' have offered hope to many parents who are left disillusioned by the school system and health service. With no other way to turn, many parents spend more and more money on special glasses, vitamins, exercises and specialist advice, but do ......
This guide is broken into two parts: the first helps parents establish limits and guidelines for what their children are and are not allowed to do; the second helps to identify learning styles and learning disabilities so parents are empowered to meet these needs. The ideas are straightforward and simply stated in this easy to carry, handy ......
Challenging the notion that young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) should be taught in a linear, target-driven way, this book presents an innovative model for creating learning opportunities to suit the needs and abilities of each individual student. Focusing on students with PMLD aged 14 and over, and addressing ......
As government policy initiatives for those with learning disabilities focus on individualised planning and client involvement, this timely book provides a reflective analysis of person centred planning. Drawing on the contributors' practical experience and research findings, the book will explore policy and practice issues of person centred ......
