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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Special Educator's Survival Guide about Written with the genre: Education & Teaching, Schools & Teaching.
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conversations.value: Written for educators who work with special children and teens,this second edition of a best-selling classic offers a practicalguide to every facet of the special education teachers job,from teaching in a self-contained classroom or resource room toserving on a multidisciplinary team. This easy-to-follow formattakes you step by step through the various stages required tounderstand the referral process, parent intakes and conferences,evaluation, interpretation, diagnosis, remediation, placement,individual education plans, classroom management, medication,educational law, and more.
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conversations.value: The Special Educator's Survival Guide
  American Psychological Association. (1985). Standards for educational and psychological testing. Washington, DC: Author.
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conversations.value: Levine, M. (1994, October 3). Educators: Some "don'ts" for those working with students. Paper presented at the 13th National NEDO Conference. [<http://www.angelfire.com>]
  Lieberman, L. M. (1985). Special education and regular education: A merger made in heaven? Exceptional Children, 51(6), 513–516.
  Lipke, B., Dickey, S., Selmar, J., and Soder, A. (1999). Photo Articulation Test-3rd ed. (PAT-3). Hydesville, CA: Psychological and Educational Publications.
  Lovass, O. I. (1989). A comprehensive behavioral theory of autistic children: Paradigm for research and treatment. Journal of Behavioral Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 20, 17–29.
  MacGinitie, W., and MacGinitie, R. (1989). Gates-MacGinitie Silent Reading Tests-3rd ed. Itasca, IL: Riverside Publishing Company.
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conversations.value: Get practical guidance for addressing the "whole child," as well as the team approach to meeting the needs of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Includes management techniques that promote on-task behavior and language arts, whole language, and multisensory instruction strategies that maintain student attention and keep students involved. In addition you'll get sample contracts, charts, a student self-evaluation checklist, sample letters and documentation on communicating with physicians and agencies, observation sheets, and an outline for a social skills planning unit to help successfully manage children with ADD/ADHD.
  This comprehensive, practical resource gives educators at all levels essential information, techniques, and tools for understanding dyslexia and adapting teaching methods in all subject areas to meet the learning styles and social and emotional needs of students who have dyslexia. Special features include over 50 full-page activity sheets that can be photocopied for immediate use and interviews with students and adults who have had personal experience with dyslexia. Organized into twenty sections, information covers everything from ten principles of instruction to teaching reading, handwriting, spelling, writing, math, everyday skills, and even covers the adult with dyslexia.
  Virtually all you need to help kids take charge of their own behavior and build effective life and social skills is here. One of the most practical resources available for diagnosing and remediating reading problems available, the ADD/ADHD Behavior-Change Resource Kit includes easy-to-follow explanations of the causes of disabilities, reproducible assessment devices, scores of activity sheets for improving ability in visual perception, and more.
  Dr. Grad L. Flick, Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi Regional Gulf Park Campus in Long Beach, has over 28 years' experience in both research and clinical practice and has numerous publication credits including Power Parenting for Children with ADD/ADHD (The Center for Applied Research in Education) and How to Reach & Teach Teenagers with ADHD (Jossey-Bass).
  Help children acquire the basic skills necessary to achieve independence and success in everyday living with these 145 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible worksheets. Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations. It gives special children the extra focus they need to understand how to fit into the real world and how to develop the skills needed to become more independent in their homes, at schools, and in the community.