Special Education And Rehabilitation

Educators who work with students with disabilities have the unique challenge of providing comprehensive and quality educational experiences for students who have a wide range of abilities and levels of focus. Pedagogies and educational strategies can be applied across a student population, though they tend to have varied success. Developing adaptive teaching methods that provide quality experiences for students with varied disabilities are necessary to promote success for as many of these students as possible. Special Education Design and Development Tools for School Rehabilitation Professionals is a comprehensive research publication that examines special education practices and provides in-depth evaluations of pedagogical practices for improved educational experiences for students with disabilities. Highlighting a range of topics such as bilingual education, psychometrics, and physical education, this book is ideal for special education teachers, instructors, rehabilitation professionals, academicians, school administrators, instructional designers, curriculum developers, principals, educational software developers, researchers, and students.

Provides definitions of more than 2,000 terms unique to special education and rehabilitation. This work provides listing of professional organizations and resources, and is a useful reference for those in the special education field.

Rehabilitation professionals working with students with disabilities and the families of those students face unique challenges in providing inclusive services to special education student populations. There needs to be a focus on adaptive teaching methods that provide quality experience for students with varying disabilities to promote student success and inclusivity. Critical issues within these practices span autism, diverse students, gifted education, learning disabilities, behavioral and emotional disorders, and more. With having many different types of students with vastly different situations, it is important for rehabilitation professionals to understand the best practices and learning systems for special education students who have a wide range of needs and challenges. The Handbook of Research on Critical Issues in Special Education for School Rehabilitation Practices focuses on the issues and challenges rehabilitation professionals face in special education and how they can provide inclusive and effective services to diverse student populations. This book highlights topics such as culturally responsive teacher preparation, artificial intelligence in the classroom, universal design, inclusive development, and school rehabilitation and explores the effects these newfound practices in education have on various types of students with disabilities. This book is essential for special education teachers, administrators, counselors, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the new methods, theories, and solutions for the best practices in inclusive and effective special education.

The digitalization of society is spreading around the world and technology has become part of many people's daily lives. It acts as a means of communication, work, education and leisure. For populations with special needs (people with some kind of disability or disorder) technology can play an essential role in their rehabilitation and treatment. It also empowers the individuals themselves. The aim of this multi-disciplinary research for decades has been to explore, develop and evaluate innovative technology to aid people with disabilities through virtual reality and associated machinery. The field engages researchers from health sectors, areas of engineering and schools of education to collaborate in order to take on a holistic approach to meet these challenges.

Why do you need this text? Differentiation, universal design, and inclusion- these educational concepts depicting today's classroom are here to stay. What does the average teacher do to make sure that their students receive the best education? Where should a teacher turn to have a quick reference check for the usage of assistive technology? This text provides exciting new ideas in the world of assistive technology and gives us the confidence in knowing that it is constantly being explored to best serve our students. Our children are the most important asset this world has. They are our purpose. The text Assistive Technology provides an avenue where all children regardless of disabilities or handicapped will have an equal chance to receive the best possible education our village can provide. Regular and special education teachers, reading specialized, social workers, physiotherapists, speech pathologist, and parents... need to read this book. (Carol Williams, M.A., Principal, Toronto District Separate School board. Ontario, Canada) Assistive Technology is an essential text for those who teach -- or aspire to teach -- children with special needs. Special Education laws mandate that schools consider each student's need for assistive technology devices and/or services during the IEP process. The vastness of the information presented by Professors Sze and Cowden may be readily adapted to the particular needs of students in elementary and secondary schools. (J.C. Blokhuis, Ph.D., LL.B., Senior Lecturer, Roehampton University, London, UK)

This second edition of Assistive Technology in Special Education provides families, teachers, and therapists an update on how to use the latest technologies to help individuals who struggle with communication, literacy, and learning.