Teaching Students with Mental Retardation: Providing Access to the General Curriculum [Hardcover]

Michael L. Wehmeyer (Author), Deanna Sands (Author), H. Earle, Ed.D. Knowlton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2002 | ISBN-10: 1557665281 | ISBN-13: 978-1557665287 | Edition: 1

Every day, teachers and education professionals struggle with a crucial classroom goal: ensuring that students with mental retardation or other support needs have access to the general curriculum. They'll find the guidance, research, and practical strategies they need in this advanced, reader-friendly textbook, which will prepare preservice educators for the classroom and sharpen the skills of professionals in the field. Readers will get guidance on developing a person-centered approach to IEPs, including decisions about placement, appropriate accommodations and modifications, and alternate assessment a detailed review of four instruction types - teacher-mediated, peer-mediated, technology-mediated, and activity-anchored - and suggestions on matching instruction to individual learner needs and goals age-specific curriculum modifications and supports, including verbal devices like analogies and role-playing; visual devices like films and charts; self-evaluation; assistive technology; and positive behavioral support an in-depth discussion on using "empowerment evaluation" to measure the efficacy of programs and promote student progress and self-determination steps that support full participation in the community outside the classroom, including aspects like social relationships, job preparation, household management, and sexuality Blending research-based theory with step-by-step processes and planning forms, this practical text is the key to building curricula that include students with mental retardation and meet their individual needs.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 308 pages
• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company; 1 edition (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557665281
• ISBN-13: 978-1557665287
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #543,627 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars book about how to teach students with ID/DD, August 3, 2007

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This review is from: Teaching Students with Mental Retardation: Providing Access to the General Curriculum (Hardcover)

This book was okay-it has NO pictures-so you automatically assume it to be bad. It's made in Baltimore and it's not a super nice book-but it does help a little bit.