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Teaching Students With Medical, Physical, and Multiple Disabilities

A Practical Guide for Every Teacher

By: Bob Algozzine, Jim Ysseldyke

Support the academic performance and independence of students with medical and physical disabilities!

This informative guide reviews the issues educators and school nurses need to address to effectively support students with medical, physical, and multiple disabilities. Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, it also highlights:

Cognitive, academic, physical, behavioral, and communicational characteristics of numerous medical and physical conditions
Helpful ideas for adjusting classroom and school environments
Strategies for adapting instructional activities and materials
Assistive technologies designed to enhance communication or mobility
Identification issues associated with multiple disabilities

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412939010
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 136
Publication date: March 24, 2006

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Support the academic performance and independence of students with medical and physical disabilities!

If not properly addressed, a medical or physical disability that results in limited strength, mobility, vitality, and/or alertness can have as much of an adverse affect on a student's educational performance as a learning disability.

Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, this highly informative guide discusses the issues educators and school nurses need to be aware of in order to effectively support students with medical, physical, and multiple disabilities in the special or general education classroom. Highlights include:

Cognitive, academic, physical, behavioral, and communication characteristics of numerous medical and physical conditions
Helpful ideas for adjusting the classroom and school environments to suit the needs of students with medical and physical disabilities
Strategies for adapting instructional activities and materials for students with physical disabilities
Assistive technologies designed to enhance communication or mobility
Identification issues associated with multiple disabilities

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 Every Teacher

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Self-Assessment I

Introduction to Teaching Students With Medical, Physical, and Multiple Disabilities

1.What Are Medical Disabilities?

Identification of Medical Symptoms

Prevalence of Medical Disabilities

“Other” Health Impairments

Special Health Problems

Medically Fragile and Technology Dependent Groups

2.What Are Physical Disabilities?

Orthopedic Impairments

Specific Impairments

Neurological Disorders

Traumatic Brain Injury

Autism

3.What Are Multiple Disabilities?

4.What Characteristics Are Associated With Medical, Physical, and Multiple Disabilities?

Cognitive

Academic

Physical

Behavioral

Communication

5. What Should Every Teacher Know About Teaching Students With Medical, Physical, and Multiple Disabilities?

Identifying Disabilities

Asking Questions

Identifying Key Areas of Assistance

Adapting Instruction

Facilitating Communication

Fostering Independence

6.Medical, Physical, and Multiple Disabilities in Perspective

Selecting Home vs. Institutional Care

Supporting Inclusion

7. What Have We Learned?

Key Points

Key Vocabulary

Self-Assessment II

Answer Key for Self-Assessments

On Your Own

Resources

Books

Journals & Articles

Organizations

Reference

Index

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