What Every Teacher Should Know About: Making Accommodations and Adaptations for Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities

by Nari Carter, Mary Anne Prater, Tina Taylor Dyches

This valuable resource and reference provides brief, hands-on, research-based methods for facilitating access to the general education curriculum for students with special learning and behavioral needs. This book is designed to instruct preservice teachers about challenges students with mild/moderate disabilities face in learning classroom curriculum, and to help these teachers learn how to provide accommodations and adaptations that address students’ educational needs. The book is divided into four Addressing Learning Problems, Accessing General Education Curriculum, Assessment, and Content Area Accommodations. Each section beings with a discussion of the topic and explains why students with disabilities experience difficulty learning, followed by several suggestions that address students’ specific learning difficulties.


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Genres: Teaching

176 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 2008

Reviews

[Valerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book. Lots of strategies are presented, but not many new ideas.