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Working With Families and Community Agencies to Support Students With Special Needs

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

By: Jim Ysseldyke, Bob Algozzine

Discover the many valuable resources available to support students with special needs!

This informative resource explores the larger context of special needs students' lives outside school, and how life-stage issues and collaboration influence instruction. Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, it answers:

What types of transition services are available?
What should educators know about early-childhood intervention?
What issues may arise when working with families?
How can schools involve community organizations?
What options are available to special needs students after high school?
What program elements are critical to a student's success in the classroom and beyond?

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412938983
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 120
Publication date: March 31, 2014

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Discover the many valuable resources available to support students with special needs!

Working With Families and Community Agencies to Support Students With Special Needs addresses two of the most exciting facets of working with students with disabilities: "life-stage" issues (early intervention and effective transition) and collaboration (working with families and professionals). Ysseldyke and Algozzine explore the larger context of students' lives outside school, and how life-stage issues and collaboration interact with and influence instruction.

Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, this informative resource offers valuable answers to the following questions: ·

What types of transition services exist and when are they necessary?
What should educators know about early-childhood intervention?
What issues should be considered when working with families?
How can schools involve community agencies and businesses?
What options are available to students with special needs after high school?
What key program elements are critical to a student's success in the classroom and beyond?

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)

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.

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.

Table of Contents

About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Every Teacher

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Working With Families and Community Agencies to Support Students With Special Needs

1.What Should Every Teacher Know About Early Childhood Intervention?

Federal Laws and Incentives

Direct and Indirect Services

Home-Based Programs

Hospital- or Center-Based Programs

Does Early Intervention Help?

2.What Are Transition Services and When Are They Necessary?

Transition into School

Transition During School

Everyday Transitions

Transition in General Education Classrooms

Dropping Out of School

Post-School Transition

3.What Living Arrangements Are Available to Adults With Special Needs?

Group Homes

Alternative Living Units

Foster Homes

Independent Living

Institutions

4.What Issues Should Be Taken Into Consideration When Working With Families?

How Exceptionalities Affect Families

Effects on Family Structure

Family Concerns

Transition to School

Adolescence

Post-School Transition

Concerns of Families With Children Who Are Gifted

What the Research Says

Change Over Time

Types of Family Involvement

Overcoming Barriers to Home-School Collaboration

5.How Should Schools Involve Community Agencies and Businesses?

Business Involvement

Special Programs

6.What Are the Keys to Success in the Wider Context?

Individualized Planning

Commitment to Normal Life Experiences

Compatible Physical Environment

Commitment to Remedial Programming

Encouraging Appropriate Behavior

Lifelong Learning

7.Working With Families and Agencies in Perspective

8. What Have We Learned?

Key Points

Key Vocabulary

Self-Assessment II

Answer Key for Self-Assessments

On Your Own

Resources

Books

Journals & Articles

Organizations

References

Index

Reviews

"The authors have presented an easy-to-read resource with self-assessments that can be used to help guide staff development on understanding basic tenets of special education and how parental invovlvement can be increased."

Principal Navigator, March 2007

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