ABSTRACT
'What a terrific resource: comprehensive and current, this Handbook is a vital acquisition for all involved in special education programs. Dr Farrell writes clearly and with a practical flair ... Highly recommended.' – Michael Arthur-Kelly PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Special Education Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia
This acclaimed, bestselling and comprehensive guide, now in a fully updated fourth edition, is an essential reference book for anyone involved with special education.
All entries have been reviewed to reflect current practice and the book is enriched with extra resources, including references to useful Internet sites. Focusing on current educational frameworks in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, the author has gathered into one A to Z volume a wide range of information essential to good practice in mainstream and special schools. A thematic index helps the reader plot a course through topics of interest. The broad themes and areas covered are:
- basic terms, ideas and values
- venues relating to special education, and school organisation
- roles and responsibilities
- individual differences among learners with disabilities and disorders
- curriculum and assessment, resources and technology
- pedagogy and classroom organisation
- therapy and care.
Presented in a handy quick reference format The Special Education Handbook also provides a coherent account of the complexities of special education, combining a wealth of practical guidance with the latest research findings.
This clear and concise Handbook is indispensable for all those involved in special education, including teachers, teaching assistants, parents, administrators and others.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter 1|21 pages
A
entry |2 pages
Access
entry |1 pages
Accreditation/examinations
entry |2 pages
Adaptive behaviour
entry |2 pages
Adaptive equipment
entry |1 pages
Administration/administrator
entry |2 pages
Advocacy/advocate
entry |2 pages
Age
entry |2 pages
Aids to hearing
entry |2 pages
Anger management training
entry |3 pages
Anxiety disorders
entry |3 pages
Applied behaviour analysis
entry |2 pages
Art therapy/art therapist
entry |2 pages
Asperger's syndrome
entry |3 pages
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
entry |2 pages
Audiology/audiologist
entry |2 pages
Augmentative and alternative communication
entry |2 pages
Autism
entry |3 pages
Autonomy and independence
letter 2|14 pages
B
entry |2 pages
Barriers
entry |1 pages
Behaviour chain interruption strategy
entry |2 pages
Behaviour therapy/behaviour therapist
entry |2 pages
Biofeedback
entry |2 pages
Bio-psycho-social model
entry |3 pages
Birth difficulties
entry |2 pages
Boarding special school
entry |3 pages
Braille and Moon
entry |3 pages
Brain basics
entry |2 pages
Breaks and lesson structure
entry |1 pages
Buildings and design
entry |2 pages
Bullying
letter 3|40 pages
C
entry |1 pages
Care
entry |2 pages
Causal factors
entry |4 pages
Cerebral hemispheres and lobes
entry |2 pages
Cerebral palsy
entry |3 pages
Challenging behaviour
entry |2 pages
Child and adolescent mental health
entry |3 pages
Child development
entry |2 pages
Child and adolescent psychiatry/child and adolescent psychiatrist
entry |4 pages
Classification of disabilities/disorders
entry |1 pages
Classroom organisation and layout
entry |2 pages
Cognitive-behavioural therapy/cognitive-behavioural therapist
entry |2 pages
Communication difficulties – comprehension
entry |3 pages
Communication difficulties – grammar
entry |3 pages
Communication difficulties – pragmatics
entry |4 pages
Communication difficulties – semantics
entry |2 pages
Community-based vocational instruction
entry |3 pages
Computer technology
entry |2 pages
Concrete learning and mild cognitive impairment
entry |4 pages
Conduct disorder
entry |2 pages
Conductive education/conductor
entry |2 pages
Co-occurrence of conditions
entry |2 pages
Counselling/counsellor
entry |2 pages
Criteria for disabilities/disorders
entry |3 pages
Curriculum
letter 4|20 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Dance movement therapy/dance movement therapist
entry |3 pages
Deafblindness
entry |2 pages
Dentistry/dentist
entry |3 pages
Depressive disorders
entry |4 pages
Developmental coordination disorder
entry |2 pages
Developmental delay
entry |3 pages
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
entry |2 pages
Diet/dietician
entry |1 pages
Difficulty
entry |2 pages
Disability
entry |2 pages
Discrete trial teaching
entry |1 pages
Disorder
entry |2 pages
Disorder of written expression
entry |1 pages
Down syndrome
entry |2 pages
Drama therapy/drama therapist
letter 5|12 pages
E
entry |2 pages
Early education
entry |2 pages
Early intervention
entry |2 pages
Education/educator
entry |2 pages
Elective mutism
entry |4 pages
Epilepsy
entry |3 pages
Equality of opportunity
entry |2 pages
Evidence-based practice
letter 6|3 pages
F
entry |2 pages
Fragile X syndrome
entry |2 pages
Funding
letter 7|4 pages
G
entry |3 pages
Genetic disorders
entry |2 pages
Graduated response
entry |1 pages
Group communication
letter 8|10 pages
H
entry |2 pages
Handwriting
entry |3 pages
Health impairment
entry |2 pages
Health services
entry |4 pages
Hearing impairment
entry |2 pages
History of special education
entry |2 pages
Home schooling
entry |1 pages
Hospital schooling
letter 9|12 pages
I
entry |1 pages
Impairment
entry |3 pages
Inclusion
entry |2 pages
Incontinence
entry |2 pages
Individual education programme/plan
entry |2 pages
Intelligence
entry |2 pages
Intensive interaction
entry |4 pages
International classification of functioning, disability and health for children and youth
entry |1 pages
Internet: world wide web sites
letter 10|2 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Journals and other publications
letter 11|7 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Learning difficulty
entry |2 pages
Learning disability
entry |4 pages
Legal framework
entry |2 pages
Low vision devices and lighting
letter 12|23 pages
M
entry |2 pages
Mainstream school/classroom
entry |4 pages
Mathematics disorder
entry |2 pages
Medication
entry |4 pages
Medicine
entry |1 pages
Mentor for pupils
entry |4 pages
Mild cognitive impairment
entry |4 pages
Moderate to severe cognitive impairment
entry |4 pages
Multi-professional working
entry |2 pages
Multisensory environments
entry |2 pages
Multiple disabilities
entry |2 pages
Muscular dystrophy
entry |2 pages
Music therapy/music therapist
letter 13|7 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Needs
entry |3 pages
Neural tube defects
entry |2 pages
Neurology/neurologist
entry |2 pages
Neuropsychology/neuropsychologist
letter 14|15 pages
O
entry |2 pages
Objects of reference
entry |3 pages
Observational learning and modelling
entry |2 pages
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
entry |2 pages
Occupational therapy/occupational therapist
entry |2 pages
Ophthalmology/ophthalmologist
entry |2 pages
Oppositional defiant disorder
entry |2 pages
Optimal education
entry |3 pages
Oral/aural approaches
entry |3 pages
Orthopaedic impairment and motor disorders
entry |2 pages
Orthoptics/orthoptist
letter 15|38 pages
P
entry |2 pages
Paediatrics/paediatrician
entry |2 pages
Parents
entry |2 pages
Pedagogy
entry |2 pages
Philosophy
entry |3 pages
Phobias
entry |2 pages
Physical therapy/physical therapist
entry |2 pages
Pivotal response training
entry |2 pages
Play and play areas
entry |2 pages
Play therapy/play therapist
entry |3 pages
Politics
entry |2 pages
Portage
entry |3 pages
Postmodernism
entry |2 pages
Postural and positional supports
entry |2 pages
Prader–Willi syndrome
entry |1 pages
Prevalence and incidence
entry |2 pages
Problem-solving skills training
entry |4 pages
Profound cognitive impairment/profound and multiple learning difficulties
entry |6 pages
Progress
entry |2 pages
Prosthetics and orthotics
entry |2 pages
Protective appliances and clothing
entry |3 pages
Psychodynamic therapy
entry |3 pages
Psycholinguistics
entry |2 pages
Psychology/psychologist
entry |2 pages
Psychometric tests and testing
entry |2 pages
Psychotherapy/psychotherapist
entry |2 pages
Pupil ‘voice'
letter 16|3 pages
Q
entry |3 pages
Qualifications, standards and training for teachers
letter 17|11 pages
R
entry |4 pages
Reading disorder
entry |3 pages
Referral and evaluation
entry |2 pages
Regional and local organisation
entry |2 pages
Research
entry |2 pages
Resource room
entry |2 pages
Rett syndrome
entry |2 pages
Rights
letter 18|30 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Semantic pragmatic disorder
entry |2 pages
Sign bilingualism
entry |2 pages
Sign language/signing
entry |3 pages
Skills
entry |1 pages
Social skills training
entry |2 pages
Social work/social worker
entry |5 pages
Sociology
entry |2 pages
Special children
entry |1 pages
Special classes
entry |3 pages
Special education
entry |2 pages
Special educational need
entry |2 pages
Special educational needs coordinator
entry |2 pages
Special school
entry |4 pages
Speech and language impairments
entry |2 pages
Speech-language pathology/speech-language pathologist
entry |1 pages
Statement of special educational needs
entry |2 pages
Stuttering/stammering
entry |2 pages
Symbols
entry |3 pages
Syndromes
entry |3 pages
Systems approach
letter 19|9 pages
T
entry |2 pages
Teaching aide
entry |4 pages
Technology/technician
entry |1 pages
Total communication
entry |2 pages
Tourette syndrome
entry |2 pages
Transition
entry |3 pages
Traumatic brain injury
letter 20|2 pages
U
entry |2 pages
Underpinning processes in disabilities/disorders
letter 21|3 pages
V
entry |3 pages
Visual impairment