Adapting early childhood curricula for children with special needs.

Cook, Ruth E. (Added Author). Cook, Ruth E. dapting early childhood curricula for children with special needs. (Added Author).

Summary: This comprehensive text on early childhood special education emphasizes a developmental focus over a disability focus. The authors believe that children are more alike than different in their developmental processes and avoid the negative impact of labeling children with disability categorical names. The authors have produced a book that offers educators a practical and effective guide to finding learning opportunities within daily curriculum activities and routine. The current edition maintains the focus on inclusive, family-centered, real-world approaches that are also theoretically based. The text also provides ample detail related to specific intervention strategies that enhance teachers’ ability to work with young children with special needs and their families.

Record details

ISBN: 9780132596787 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0132596784 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
504 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 8th ed. /
Publisher: Boston : Pearson, c2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Rev. ed. of: Adapting early childhood curricula for children with special needs / Ruth E. Cook, M. Diane Klein, Annette Tessier. 7th ed.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Educating young children with special needs: The challenge -- In partnership with families -- Developing individualized intervention plans and programs and monitoring progress -- Designing instructional programs -- Considerations for teaching children with specific disabilities -- Promoting emotional and social development -- Helping young children develop motor and self-help skills -- Nurturing communication skills -- Encouraging the development of cognitive skills and literacy -- Teaming: Collaboration, problem solving, and consultation -- Chart of typical development -- Find your child's speech and hearing age -- Reflexes, reactions, and implications -- Referral signals checklist -- Competencies for trainees in early childhood special education -- Building collaborative relationships and conflict resolution: Effective communication strategies -- Strategies for helping children with specific disabilities participate in inclusive settings -- Common sequence of training steps used in milieu approaches -- Inclusion support itinerant procedures -- Web sites related to young children with special needs and their families -- Periodicals relevant to early childhood special education.