Note: This is the loose-leaf version of Learners with Mild Disabilities and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with the loose-leaf version, use ISBN 0133827119. A non-categorical, characteristics approach to addressing high-prevalence mild disabilities. Learners with Mild Disabilities: A Characteristics Approach focuses on high-prevalence disorders affecting school learners today, including mild intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and communication disorders, as well as on low incidence conditions that may manifest in the milder range, for example sensory, physical, health, or TBI. The author lays the foundation for addressing the needs of special learners and then focuses on learners from the perspective of alternative non-categorical frameworks. She describes students with disabilities and related conditions with respect to a variety of individual strengths and needs, considering their cognitive, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics. Readers see how to apply these conceptual frameworks by analyzing a number of vignettes and extended case studies based on the experiences of real children and teachers. Designed as a primary text for use in undergraduate and graduate courses addressing the characteristics of learners with high prevalence or milder levels of disability, the text is also useful for the first specialized course in a special education program. It supports programs in inclusive education or the growing area of generic special education. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded video. Improve mastery and retention with the Enhanced Pearson eText* The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content. The Enhanced Pearson eText is: <ul>
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Learners with Mild Disabilities: A Characteristics Approach, Loose-Leaf Version (5th Edition)

Education & Teaching

Raymond, Eileen B.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

A critical look at four high-prevalence mild disabilities as seen from several unique perspectives. Learners with Mild Disabilities focuses on four high-prevalence disorders: mild intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, and ADHD. The text also considers the Autism Spectrum Disorders, such as HFA and Asperger’s Syndrome, in addition to other mild conditions such as communication disorders. This text looks first at the concept of disability from conventional categorical perspectives, and then shifts to focusing on learners from the perspective of alternative, non-categorical frameworks. It describes students with disabilities and related conditions with respect to a variety of individual strengths and needs, considering their cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics. The reader is encouraged to apply these conceptual frameworks through the analysis of numerous vignettes and extended case studies that are drawn from the experiences of real children and teachers throughout the text. Using this non-categorical framework best prepares special educators for the complex job of providing effective services to the full and unique spectrum of students with mild disabilities.

Learners with Mild Disabilities: A Characteristics Approach (4th Edition)

This book focuses on four high-prevalence disabilities: mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, ADHD, and behavioral disorders. It begins with the conventional categorical perspective, and then moves to the perspective of alternative, non-categorical frameworks. Learners with Mild Disabilities focuses on disabilities with respect to any individual's strengths and needs, considering their cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics. The reader is encouraged to apply these conceptual frameworks through analysis of the numerous vignettes and extended case studies: stories which are drawn from the experiences of real children and teachers. The approach of this book emphasizes the complex nature of mild disabilities and provides an alternative to the notion that these are discrete disabilities. For those who need to work with mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, ADHD, and behavioral disorders.

Learners with Mild Disabilities: A Characteristics Approach

Allyn&Bacon

This valuable resource discusses students with disabilities and focuses on each child's individual strengths and needs, considering their cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics. A focus on four of the most common disabilities gives teachers and other professional working with children a solid understanding of the nature and characteristics of: mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, ADHD, and behavioral disorders.. The reader is provided with many vignettes and extended case studies in the text—stories which are drawn from the experiences of real children and teachers. This book emphasizes the complex nature of mild disabilities. Appropriate for teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, parents and any other professional that works with children with high-incidence disabilities.

Learners with Mild Disabilities: A Characteristics Approach, Second Edition

Learners with Mild Disabilities focuses on four high-prevalence disabilities; mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, and ADHD, as well as briefer consideration of other mild conditions such as Asperger Syndrome. This text looks first at disability from conventional categorical perspectives, and then focuses on the perspective of alternative, non-categorical frameworks. This text describes students with disabilities with respect to their individual strengths and needs, considering their cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics. The reader is encouraged to apply these conceptual frameworks though analysis of the numerous vignettes and extended case studies throughout the text, stories drawn from the experiences of real children and teachers. The separate categorical approaches around which other texts are organized tend to reinforce the notion of discrete disabilities, which current experience and philosophical discussions in the field of special education increasingly do not support and which do not prepare new special educators for the complex nature of services for students with mild disabilities. Learners with Mild Disabilities is designed as a primary text for use in undergraduate and graduate courses addressing the characteristics of learners with high prevalence or milder levels of disability and is useful as a text for the first specialized course in a special education program. It supports programs in “generic special education,” a growing area of study as a number of states move toward generic or non-categorical certification. New to this Edition: <ul><li>Presents IDEA 2004 and its regulations in a clear and concise manner.</li></ul>
<ul><li>The chapters on learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders have been significantly revised to reflect the impact of IDEA 2004’s response to intervention framework.
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<ul><li>New material has been added on English Language Learners (Ch. XYZ).</li></ul>
<ul><li>Presents updated child count data from the most recent Annual Report of the Implementation of IDEA (2006) to help readers understand the magnitude of the numbers of students served in special education currently.</li></ul>
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Thinking and Discussion questions added to the opening Vignettes and closing Case Studies in Chapters 3, 6, 7.</li></ul>

Learners With Mild Disabilities: A Characteristics Approach