Teaching Young Children With Disabilities in Natural Environments

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Now enhanced with new topics critical to effective practice, this second edition is the essential methods textbook for preservice professionals preparing to teach young children with disabilities in today's increasingly diverse and inclusive programs. Focusing on children birth to 5, this core text gives future professionals specific, evidence-based knowledge on what to teach and how to teach it, with practical methods that fit into naturally occurring activities and routines. The expert authors synthesize nearly a decade of new developments in this revised and expanded second edition, making this the most comprehensive, up-to-date methods textbook available for the new generation of early childhood special educators and interventionists.

THE CORE TEXT EVERY FUTURE PROFESSIONAL NEEDS:

• Prepares them for success in today's natural and inclusive environments
• Takes a non-categorical approach, so professionals can skillfully address challenges that cross a range of disabilities and ages
• Clear, explicit guidance on the best methods and procedures to use when teaching and conducting intervention
• Every chapter updated, including vital new information on hot topics and legislative changes
• Strong focus throughout the book on cultural competence

STUDENT-FRIENDLY FEATURES: Focus points, concise chapter summaries, challenging study questions, and realistic examples that illustrate the suggested techniques and strategies.

WITH NEW AND EXPANDED INFORMATION ON: blended practices - assistive technology - response to intervention - legislative changes, including the new Part C regulations - curriculum-based measures - teaching children with autism - resolving challenging behavior - successful professional and family partnerships - alternative assessment - IFSP/IEP development - the naturalistic curriculum model - linking early learning standards to instruction - progress monitoring - milieu teaching - activity-based instruction - embedded instruction - adaptations in natural settings - cultural and linguistic diversity - group instruction - social skills and interventions - early childhood transitions - and more

Dr. Noonan coordinates the Graduate Teacher Preparation Program for Students with Severe Disabilities and the Ph.D. in Education Program, Exceptionalities Specialization, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has been the director of several early childhood special education grants as well as teacher education and leadership training grants. She has worked extensively as a consultant throughout the Pacific Basin region and is the author of many articles and chapters concerning early childhood special education and teaching students who have severe disabilities.

Dr. McCormick coordinates the Early Childhood Special Education Teacher Training Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Prior to 1979, when she joined that faculty, she had had experience as a teacher-counselor working with children with behavior disorders, as state coodinator of infant and preschool services, as director of outpatient programs for children under the Tenessee Department of Mental Health, and as a member of the faculties of Peabody College (Vanderbilt University) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her areas of research and expertise include early intervention and early childhood special education, language intervention, inclusion/co-teaching, and severe disabilities. She has conducted workshops in the Pacific Basin and Taiwan and has served as principal investigator for numerous research and personnel preparation grants with an emphasis on early intervention.