Collaborative Teams for Students With Severe Disabilities: Integrating Therapy and Educational Services

Offers in-depth guidance on assessment, curriculum development, and instruction for students with severe disabilities, centering on a team approach. Provides core terminology and a rationale for collaborative teamwork; shows how occupational, physical, and speech-language services can become part of the curriculum and IEPs; addresses supports for implementation; and discusses scheduling, developing IEPs, co-teaching, conducting team meetings, resolving professional differences, and communicating with parents. Includes 20 pages of blank forms. Useful as a training text and as a professional development tool. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.