Learners with Mild Disabilities: A Characteristics Approach, Second Edition

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.