Teaching English Learners in Inclusive Classrooms

For practitioners and academics, Durán (special education, California State U., Sacramento) presents a text for teaching English language learners in inclusive classrooms, with chapters covering power and functional language, transition planning, autism and other spectrum disorders, and working with students with multiple disabilities. In this edition, chapters have been rewritten to include new information on IDEA, No Child Left Behind, content standards, and research related to teaching learners with disabilities. New chapters cover literacy development, sheltered content instruction, assessment, transition, inclusion, language development, and families, and other added information addresses Asian, Latino, and African American students. Contributors are professors of education and special education at universities in the US and Hong Kong. Both author and subject indexes are provided. The book is a revised edition of Teaching Students with Moderate/Severe Disabilities, Including Autism. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)