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Teaching Students With Sensory Disabilities

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

By: Bob Algozzine, Jim Ysseldyke

Learn how to provide targeted support to students with sensory disabilities!

Defining the characteristics and specific needs of students who are categorized as deaf, blind, or deaf-and-blind, this valuable resource shows teachers how they can provide highly effective instruction that will foster independence of these students. Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, this informative guide discusses everything educators need to know about students with sensory disabilities, including:

Cognitive characteristics and issues
Academic characteristics and issues
Physical characteristics and issues
Behavioral characteristics and issues
Communicational characteristics and issues

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412939003
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 136
Publication date: March 24, 2006

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Learn how to provide targeted support to students with sensory disabilities!

With the right modifications, students with sensory disabilities-impairments that affect how well they see and/or hear-can participate fully in general education classes alongside their neighbors and peers.

In Teaching Students With Sensory Disabilities discusses the defining characteristics and specific needs of students who are categorized as deaf, blind, or deaf-and-blind. Offering numerous practical classroom management tips and surprisingly easy instruction adjustments, this valuable resource shows teachers how they can provide instruction in a highly effective manner that will foster the independence of students with visual and hearing impairments in the general education classroom.

Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, this highly informative guide discusses everything educators need to know about students with sensory disabilities, including:

Cognitive characteristics and issues
Academic characteristics and issues
Physical characteristics and issues
Behavioral characteristics and issues
Communication characteristics and issues

A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher: The 13-Book Collection
This collection equips educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring-and meeting-their fullest potential.

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Key features

Practical, accessible, research-based information and advice distilled from a highly-successful textbook
Numerous case studies
Practical, age-appropriate strategies for the classroom
Reflection/professional development exercises
Resources – books, articles, organizations
Linked to IDEA 2004

Author(s)

Bob Algozzine

Bob Algozzine is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina and project codirector of the U.S. Department of Education-supported Behavior and Reading Improvement Center. With 25 years of research experience and extensive firsthand knowledge of teaching students classified as seriously emotionally disturbed, Algozzine is a uniquely qualified staff developer, conference speaker, and teacher of behavior management and effective teaching courses. He is active in special education practice as a partner and collaborator with professionals in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina and as an editor of several journals focused on special education. Algozzine has written more than 250 manuscripts on special education topics, including many books and textbooks on how to manage emotional and social behavior problems.

Jim Ysseldyke

Jim Ysseldyke, Ph.D., is Birkmaier Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, director of the School Psychology Program, and director of the Center for Reading Research at the University of Minnesota. Widely requested as a staff developer and conference speaker, Ysseldyke brings more than 30 years of research and teaching experience to educational professionals around the globe.

As the former director of the federally funded National Center on Educational Outcomes, Ysseldyke conducted research and provided technical support that helped to boost the academic performance of students with disabilities and improve school assessment techniques nationally. Today, he continues to work to improve the education of students with disabilities.

The author of more than 300 publications on special education and school psychology, Ysseldyke is best known for his textbooks on assessment, effective instruction, issues in special education, and other cutting-edge areas of education and school psychology. With A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher, Ysseldyke seeks to equip educators with practical knowledge and methods that will help them to better engage students in exploring—and meeting—all their potentials.

Table of Contents

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Students With Special Needs

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Teaching Students with Sensory Disabilities

1.What Should Every Teacher Know About Visual Impairments?

Definition

Eligibility for Special Education

Prevalence

What you May See in Your Classroom

2.What Should Every Teacher Know About Hearing Impairments?

Definition

Types of Hearing Loss

Prevalence

What you May See in Your Classroom

3.What Should Every Teacher Know About Deafness and Blindness?

Definition

Prevalence

Characteristics

4.What Tools and Strategies Should Teachers Use to Support Students With Sensory Disabilities?

Eliminate Barriers

Improve Communication

Foster Independence

5.Sensory Disabilities in Perspective

Understand Characteristics

Support Accomodations

Foster Collaboration

Prepare for the Future

6. What Have We Learned?

Key Points

More About Visual Impairments

More About Hearing Impairments

Key Vocabulary

Self-Assessment II

Answer Key for Self-Assessments

On Your Own

Resources

Websites

Books

Journals & Articles

Organizations

References

Index

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