Exam Preparation
- A Guide to Collaboration for IEP Teams
Martin, a conflict resolution specialist, offers
a practical guide that will help administrators, teachers, resource
professionals, and parents work together to design and modify
individualized education programs (IEPs) for children with special
education needs.
- Better IEPs: How to develop legally correct and educationally useful programs
This handbook explains
IEPs and IDEA 1997 from the legal point of view, citing the law and court
cases throughout. It spells out do's and don'ts of placement, funding,
and procedure; describes the IEP team; gives examples of problematic IEPs;
and shows how to write legally and educationally sound IEPs.
- Culture in Special Education: Building reciprocal family-professional relationships
Culture in Special Education addresses
how the ideals of U.S. macro-culture are represented in the field of
special education and the resulting implications for cross-cultural
communication. It argues that professional knowledge is largely
acquired by an implicit process that needs to be made explicit and
conscious if school personnel are to become effective collaborators in
a multi-cultural society.
- Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals
Interactions
provides a look at how teams of school professionals can
effectively work together to provide a necessary range of services to
students with special needs.
- Promising Practices for Family and Community Involvement in Special Education
This book addresses major frameworks for
understanding family involvement and government support of family
involvement projects. Included within each chapter are examples of
research in action, focusing on specific interactive activities or
programs designed to bring families and schools together.
- Special Education: Contemporary perspectives for school professionals
This text's contemporary treatment of special education prepares teachers
for their role in the education and well-being of students with special
needs.
