Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities / edited by Festus E. Obiakor and Jeffrey P. Bakken.

Other author Obiakor, Festus E., editor.
Other author Bakken, Jeffrey P., editor.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationBingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Copyright Date©2018
Description1 online resource (xii, 243 pages).
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects
Learning disabled children--Education.
Learning disabilities--Treatment.
Electronic books.

SeriesAdvances in special education ; volume 33
Advances in special education ; v. 33. ^A985143
Contents Intro; Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities; Contents; About the Editors; List of Contributors; Preface; Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities: An Introduction; Introduction: Early Roots of Special Education; Initial Focus on the Sensory Disabilities; Social Advocacy Movement; The Emergence of Specialized Interventions; Specialized Interventions for Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities; Advocacy Groups; The Rise of Socially Constructed Disability Categories; The Ongoing Commitment to Research-Based Practices; The Movement to Inclusive Education.
Contents Conclusion; References; Chapter 1: Viewpoint on Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities: Instruction Matters; State of LD; Summary of Research on Interventions for Students with LD; LD Research Institutes' Findings; Meta-analyses; Recent Reviews of Sustained Research Programs; Big Ideas About Interventions for Students with LD; Identification of Systematic Approach to Tasks; Explicit Instruction; Scaffolded Instruction; Multiple Opportunities for Practice with Feedback; Attribution and Self-regulation Components; Viewpoint: Instruction Matters; For Practitioners.
Contents For Teacher Educators and Professional Development Providers; For Administrators; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Promoting Positive Freedoms for Secondary Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: The Role of Instruction; Power versus Duties; Negative Freedoms; Positive Freedoms; Interaction of Positive and Negative Freedoms; LRE versus FAPE; Purpose of Action; Implications of the Endrew F. Case; Achievement and Services Provided to Students with EBD; Disappointing Outcomes.; Why Aren't We Doing Better?; Providing instruction of Students with EBD in Secondary Schools.
Contents Four Challenges for Completing a Secondary Education; Discriminating Essential from Nonessential Information; Recalling Target Information Quickly and Accurately; Letter Strategies. Many readers will be familiar with first-letter strategies where the first-letters of the target information are selected to create an acronym to aid in recall of the information. For example, the acronym "HOMES" is often used to prompt.
Contents The Keyword Method. When using the keyword method, a concrete, acoustically similar word is created for the unfamiliar information to be learned. Scruggs et al. (in press) provided an example to promote recall that Canidae is the scientific name of the biOrganizing Target Information; The QER. The "QER" (Bulgren, Marquis, Lenz, Deshler, & Schumaker, 2011) is designed to support thinking about and answering complex questions for students with disabilities. QER employs a graphic organizer with six thinking steps posed as questions.
Abstract This volume focuses on divergent perspectives and innovative interventions known to maximize the fullest potential of people with exceptionalities. Emphasizing that intervention strategy objectives must always be to meet individual learners unique needs, contributions reflect where we are and where we are going in the field of special education.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 9, 2018).
Issued in other formPrint version: Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities. First edition. ©2018 1787430901 9781787430907
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