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Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education, 6/e

William L. Heward, Ohio State University

Published July, 1999 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

Copyright 2000, 733 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-012938-0


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Summary

For courses in Introduction to Special Education, Exceptionalities or Mainstreaming. For two decades, professors at more than 350 colleges and universities have relied on this comprehensive, engaging text for professional research, current practice, and trends in special education. Grounded in scholarship, yet written with the human experience in mind, this best-selling book effectively conveys the stories of teachers and children in special education. With a reorganized format, this latest edition captures the spirit of previous editions but with the necessary updates future teachers will need in the dynamic field of special education.

Features


NEW—Text has been reorganized to emphasize a developmental perspective—The chapters on families and early intervention now appear before the disability-specific chapters. The chapter on transition concludes the text.

  • Preservice teachers will better understand how students with disabilities grow and develop, and how early identification and intervention helps these students to be more successful in school and in life.
NEW—The families chapter, now included in Part I, provides practical information—On how to develop parent-teacher partnerships, candid descriptions of the role parents must undertake to meet the needs of special children, and other pertinent information on interaction between families and schools.
  • Students will learn to appreciate the partnership as mandated by IDEA, in which schools and families must engage. NEW—Complete coverage of 1997 amendments to IDEA.
  • Students will learn about this crucial law and how it impacts schools and students with disabilities and their role as teachers in implementing the law.
NEW—Integrated Video Application—New to this edition are four videos, each of which has a supporting student-oriented application integrated into the text via a series of four page, four color inserts. The videos address topics such as law and its application, a walkthrough in creating IEPs, disability awareness, peer tutoring and a transition lab. Videos are free upon adoption.
  • These videos tie and expand concepts discussed within the text in a concrete, applied manner.
NEW—Integrated Website— Throughout the book, marginal notes direct students to specific components of a unique Companion Website that has been created specifically for this text.
  • By knowing when to go to the Companion Website, students will be able to study more effectively and efficiently, professors will be able to easily demonstrate that they are integrating technology into their course.
NEW—Historical information found in each chapter is now organized in new, easy to read tables.
NEW—Several new Profiles and Perspectives boxes have been added to this edition—This popular feature written by leaders in the field focus on individuals with disabilities, as well as the teacher, parents, and others who are involved on a daily basis in special education.
NEW—A number of new Teaching and Learning boxes highlight strategies—Identified through classroom research that are appropriate for teaching, collaborating, enhancing peer interaction, and working with families.


Table of Contents
    Prologue: A Personal View of Special Education.
I. FOUNDATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING SPECIAL EDUCATION.
    1. Defining Special Education
    2. Planning and Providing Special Education Services.
    3. Special Education in a Culturally Diverse Society.
    4. Parents and Families of Children with Special Needs.
II. EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS.
    5. Early Childhood Special Education.
    6. Mental Retardation.
    7. Learning Disabilities.
    8. Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.
    9. Communication Disorders.
    10. Hearing Loss.
    11. Blindness and Low Vision.
    12. Physical Impairments and Special Health Care Needs.
    13. Severe Disabilities.
    14. Giftedness and Talent Development.
    15. Transition to Adulthood.
    Postscript: Developing Your Own Personal View of Special Education.
    Glossary.
    References.
    Name Index.
    Subject Index.

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