The Reflexive Special Educator
The Reflexive Special Educator
Thomas
G. Ryan
The Reflexive Special Educator, written cooperatively by several authors, supports and facilitates the professional development of educators. To illuminate the critical training required of special educators, the authors discuss strategies, expectations, and recent developments in this important educational field. Readers are presented with the opportunity to cultivate a philosophy of education while gaining knowledge about the historical frameworks that govern special education.
The text includes numerous resource links, parental perspectives, assessment tools, evaluation theory, and practice insights, each of which are discussed via authentic discipline based case studies that clarify, enlighten, and provoke readers. Several exceptionalities are examined, including blind and/or low vision, hearing impairment, ADD/ADHD, and Gifted/Learning Disabled students. The authors confront tensions surrounding best treatment and practice options for children and youth, offering the reader a complete picture of Special Education.
Contents:
Introduction: The Reflexive Special Educator
1. A Special Educator's Reflexive Chronicle
2. The Reflexive Educators Philosophical Orientation
3. The Evolution of Special Education Policy in Ontario
4. Parent Perspective and Special Education Plans
5. Assessment and Evaluation: Preparatory Points
6. ADD/ADHD and Educational Achievement
7. Identifying Gifted/Learning Disabled Students
8. Physical Exceptionality: Blind and Low Vision
9. Physical Exceptionality: Hearing
10. Inclusion: Is British Columbia Leading Canada Back to the
Past?
11. Great Mathematics Teaching: Good for All Students
12. Special Education Assessment Praxis: Identifying Student
Strengthsw and Needs
Appendix A: The Students First Plan
Appendix B: The IEP
Appendix C: The OSR
Appendix D: Special Education Abbreviations
Appendix E: Assessment Tools and Personnel
Appendix F: Specialized Health Support
Appendix G: Legislation
Appendix H: IEP References
Appendix I: Speech and Language Impairment
Appendix J: Secondary Case Studies
Appendix K: Elementary Case Studies
978-1-55059-341-9, 2007, 6x9, pb., 286 pg., $27.95
