Synopses & Reviews
Long recognized as a market-leader for its innovation, strong research base, and accessibility, the eighth edition of William L. Heward’s Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education is no exception and continues its tradition of excellence. Through rich examples and time-tested, research-based practices and strategies, this new edition gives readers the knowledge, insight, and tools to become exceptional teachers who are both effective and engaging in their teaching of special education students in a variety of settings.
Exceptional Teachers Are Engaging in the Classroom
- Featured Teacher Essays: Each chapter begins with an essay written by a master teacher featured for his or her work in special education. Drawn from urban, suburban, and rural areas across the country, these teachers’ stories reflect the joys, challenges, and realities of actual classrooms and allow readers to observe master teachers at work.
- Exceptional Students, Exceptional Teachers: Video Cases on CD-ROM: This new CD-ROM packaged with the text features six teachers — both general education and special education teachers — and their students in a variety of settings. All of these teachers, classrooms, and the strategies employed are integrated throughout and referenced in the text. (New!)
Exceptional Teachers Use Effective, Time-Tested Strategies in the Classroom
- “Teaching and Learning” feature: These features describe proven intervention strategies that are both classroom-based and validated by research. In addition, each strategy is extended with step-by-step tips on how to incorporate the strategy into classroom teaching. Further resources and questions for reflection are also provided on the Companion Website.
- “Tips for Beginning Teachers” features: Every chapter culminates with practical, quick tips for beginning teachers (offered by the master teachers featured in the chapter) on how to avoid common pitfalls in the classroom. (New!)
Exceptional Teachers Are Culturally Responsive
- Multiculturalism/Diversity features: These features infused throughout the text describe classroom and research-based strategies for working with students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. (New!)
- Chapter 3: Working with Parents and Families in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Society. (New!)
Other New Features of the Eighth Edition:
- Chapter on Autism Spectrum Disorders (Chapter 7).
- Chapter on Learning Disabilities (Chapter 5).
- Focus on lifespan approach in special education (Part III).
- Coverage of Standards — CEC Standards Margin Notes link critical chapter content to knowledge and skill statements from CEC’s Professional Standards for Beginning Teachers; A PRAXIS Competencies Appendix links text content to the PRAXIS Competencies covered on its tests for special educators.
Synopsis
For over two decades, professors at more than 350 colleges and universities have relied on this comprehensive, engaging book 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. This latest edition adds a focus on master teachers and integrates professional standards from CEC and PRAXIS(TM) to make this the best book to help you train effective special educators and to introduce pre- and inservice general education teachers to exceptional children. This book provides some of the most comprehensive coverage of the characteristics of learners with special needs, as well as some of the latest assistive technologies like hand-held PDAs, the AAMR's new 2002 definition and classification system for mental retardation. For teaching professionals in the field of Special Education.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. R1-R40) and indexes.
Synopsis
Long recognized as a market leader for its innovation, strong research base, and accessibility, the eighth edition of William L. Heward’s Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education continues its tradition of excellence. Through rich examples and time-tested, research-based practices and strategies, this new edition gives readers the knowledge, insight, and tools to become exceptional teachers who are engaging as well as effective in their teaching of special education students in a variety of settings.
For over 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.
Table of Contents
Prologue: A Personal View of Special Education
Part I: Foundations for Understanding Special Education
Chapter 1: The Purpose and Promise of Special Education
Chapter 2: Planning and Providing Special Education Services
Chapter 3: Collaborating with Parents and Families in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Society
Part II: Educational Needs of Exceptional Students
Chapter 4: Mental Retardation
Chapter 5: Learning Disabilities
Chapter 6: Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Chapter 7: Autism Spectrum Disorders
Chapter 8: Communication Disorders
Chapter 9: Deafness and Hearing Loss
Chapter 10: Blindness and Low Vision
Chapter 11: Physical Disabilities, Health Impairments, and ADHD
Chapter 12: Low Incidence Disabilities: Multiple/Severe Disabilities, Deaf-Blindness, and Traumatic Brain Injury
Chapter 13: Giftedness and Talent (Piirto and Heward)
Part III: Special Education Across the Lifespan
Chapter 14: Early Childhood Special Education
Chapter 15: Transitioning to Adulthood
Postscript: Developing Your Own Personal View of Special Education
Appendix: Coverage of Content Areas for PRAXIS II Test
Glossary.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
Photo Credits.