Synopses & Reviews
Early Childhood Special Education: Birth to Eight is now available in the 4th edition. The 4th edition expands coverage of pre-academics and academics, responding to No Child Left Behind and IDEA 2004. The five key areas of development: communication, physical, cognitive, social/emotional, and adaptive, all include updated coverage. This is the only text on the market that addresses all of early childhood, age birth through eight, and all of early childhood special education. The text also takes into consideration that early childhood special education is a field driven by federal law, and contains complete coverage of those laws. Each chapter has opening questions, ending questions, and activities to help the student learn and retain the information. There is a full chapter devoted to research, and an online companion that serves to supplement the text and offers up to the minute content updates. The student will appreciate the outstanding readability of this updated, authoritative text.
Review
I found this book to be extremeley relevant to students and educators in both general and special education. I would use this book in an intro to special education or general education course. This book would be useful in an intro to child development course as well
Review
I am impressed by this text and believe the depth of the book will be very useful for students. The book is very appropriate for the Introductory course."
Review
"The new edition has been updated, modified and expanded in ways that will effectively improve the quality of instruction. Contents are highly appropriate for the courses I teach." Marie Brand, MS, Ph.D. Instructor, SUNY Empire State College, NY.
Review
' This text covers the early childhood special needs topics more thoroughly than either of the texts now being used in our courses. It does a good job in considering the 'whole child' concept as it covers communication, physical, cognitive, social, emotional and also, adaptive which is a nice addition for a special needs text.'
Dr. Marilyn L. Haller, Oklahoma Baptist University
About the Author
Frank G. Bowe, Ph.D. is a Dr. Mervin Livingston Schloss Distinguished Professor at Hofstra University. He has spent 17 years preparing educators in special education and early childhood special education and he is the author of Making Inclusion Work.
Table of Contents
There are strengths in each chapter of this text. The depth of information throughout is outstanding. The definitions provided throughout the are extremeley helpful. "The new edition has been updated, modified and expanded in ways that will effectively improve the quality of instruction. Contents are highly appropriate for the courses I teach." Marie Brand, MS, Ph.D. Instructor, SUNY Empire State College, NY. I found this book to be extremeley relevant to students and educators in both general and special education. I would use this book in an intro to special education or general education course. This book would be useful in an intro to child development course as well ' This text covers the early childhood special needs topics more thoroughly than either of the texts now being used in our courses. It does a good job in considering the 'whole child' concept as it covers communication, physical, cognitive, social, emotional and also, adaptive which is a nice addition for a special needs text.'
Dr. Marilyn L. Haller, Oklahoma Baptist University 'The new edition has been updated, modified and expanded in ways that will effectively improve the quality of instruction. Contents are highly appropriate for the courses I teach.'
Marie Brand, MS, Ph.D. Instructor, SUNY Empire State College, NY.