Moderate and Severe Disabilities: A Foundational Approach is an exciting new text that provides a strong foundation for students, teachers, families, and service providers who work with persons with moderate and severe disabilities.  Readers will review classic articles that provide a foundation for best practices, describes the evolution of practices over time, and demonstrates how best practices are built on a strong research base.  Activities and performance-based assessments throughout the text allow the reader to demonstrate understanding of key concepts, appropriate programming, and issues that affect the lives of persons with moderate and severe disabilities.  Topics covered in the text include inclusive practices in the school and community, curricular and functional assessment, the relationship of functional skills to general education core content, systematic instruction, longitudinal transition, self-determination, and basic human rights. An overview of the best practices for working with persons who have moderate and severe disabilities, this cimprehensive book encourages readers to develop their own appreciation for these individuals, and demonstrates how to effectively collaborate with educators, families, and professionals in a variety of settings.

Research-based content and underlying principles to provide a foundation in moderate and severe disabilities-Provides a foundation for those who are entering the field.

Performance-based assessments-Provides students with the opportunity to apply concept and stimulate critical thinking.

Focus on issues across the life span-Stimulates discussion on where the field has been and where it is going.

Chapter-based activities-Provides content for class discussions during seminars to assess understanding.

PART ONE:    BUILDING A FOUNDATION IN MODERATE AND SEVERE DISABILITIES

Chapter 1        Defining the Term: Moderate and Severe Disabilities

Chapter 2        Working with Persons with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Educational Issues and Challenges

Chapter 3        Working with Families of Children with Moderate to Severe Disabilities: Sources of Family Stress and Interventions

Chapter 4        Providing an Appropriate Education for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities: A Foundation

PART TWO:    CREATING APPROPRIATE PROGRAMMING FOR PERSONS WITH MODERATE AND SEVERE

                            DISABILITIES

Chapter 5        Identifying Functional and Age-Appropriate Skills: A Curriculum for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

Chapter 6        Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities: Systematic Instruction

Chapter 7        Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities in School Settings: Inclusion and Collaboration

Chapter 8        Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities in Community Settings: Community-Based Instruction

Chapter 9        Working with Students with Medical Needs: Health and Vitality

Chapter 10     Supporting Students with the Most Challenging Behaviors: Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavioral Intervention

Chapter 11     Planning for the Life Span: Longitudinal Transition

Chapter 12      Entering Adulthood: Options for Work and Community Living

Chapter 13      Dealing with Difficult Issues: A Sampling of Basic Human Rights

Chapter 14      Facilitating the Future: Self-Determination

Moderate and Severe Disabilities: A Foundational Approach

By providing a strong foundation for building sound critical-thinking skills based on classic and current empirical-based research, Moderate and Severe Disabilities: A Foundational Approach provides an overview of the best practices for working with persons who have moderate and severe disabilities.

This comprehensive book encourages readers to develop their own appreciation for individuals who are the most vulnerable because of their disabilities and demonstrates how to effectively collaborate with educators, families, and professionals in a variety of settings.  Performance-Based Assessment Activities present readers with hypothetical situations to help them develop their philosophy for working with persons with moderate to severe disabilities.  Best Practices reinforce the complex issues affecting these individuals' lives.

This timely book also includes:

• An overview of moderate and severe disabilities
• Appropriate practices for working with persons with low-incidence disabilities, including ethical guidelines for professionals who partner with these diverse individuals.

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