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Related Titles:
Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices
DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY: Social and Communication Intervention for Children with Autism
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"You're Going to Love this Kid!"
Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom
By Paula Kluth, Ph.D.
| "This wonderful book brings to life a learner-centered, multi-dimensional, out-of-the-box perspective for effectively educating kids with autism, their peers and their teams. Paula Kluth re-imagines the concept of an inclusive classroom for learners with autism, embracing diversity of team perspectives, family perspectives and learning perspectives. Kluth provides a high level of personal testament and strategy to make this type of 'dream' inclusive classroom a REALITY! A meaningful and dynamic must read for anyone blessed to know a learner with autism!" —Patrick Schwarz, Ph.D., National-Louis University |
Finally education professionals have a strategy-filled guidebook for including students with autism in both primary and secondary school classrooms. Alive with powerful first-person accounts that give readers insight into the experience of having autism, this book shows educators how to adapt their own classrooms to support student participation in classwork, school routines, social activities, and more. Paula Kluth combines relevant research with lessons learned from her teaching experience to give readers specific, creative ideas for
- understanding the attitudes, values, and actions that support inclusive schooling
- connecting, communicating, and collaborating effectively with families
- enhancing literacy by adapting reading materials, using visuals, and tapping in to student interests
- planning challenging, multidimensional lessons that encourage all students to participate and help students reach their individual goals
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supporting student behavior in sensitive, positive ways
- fostering friendships and social relationships between students with and without autism
- adapting the physical environment for students with autism who may have heightened sensitivity to factors like temperature, sounds, and smells
Filled with ready-to-use strategies and first-person stories from students with autism and their teachers, this fascinating and practical book gives educators new ways to understand students with autism — and help them participate in every aspect of classroom life.
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ORDERING INFO
ISBN 1-55766-614-8
Paperback
304 pages / 7 x 10
2003 / $29.95
Stock# 6148
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Table of Contents
About the Authors
Foreword
Eugene Marcus
Preface
Acknowledgments
- Defining Autism
- Understanding Inclusive Schooling
- The Role of the Teacher: Attitudes, Values, and Actions that Support Inclusive Schooling
- Connecting with Families
with Eileen Yoshina
- Creating a Comfortable Classroom
- Friendship, Social Relationships, and Belonging
- Building Communication Skills, Competencies, and Relationships
- Seeing Students with Autism as Literate: Beyond Sight Words
- Rethinking Behavior: Positive Ways To Teach and Support
- Inclusive Pedagogy: Planning Lessons in the Diverse Classroom
- Teaching Strategies: Ideas for Inspiring, Helping, and Engaging All Learners
with Christi Kasa-Hendrickson
- Collaboration and Cooperation in the Inclusive School
Bibliography
Index
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