Through real-life stories of children and their families, Exceptional Lives provides teachers with a comprehensive experience in special education. Long noted for their focus on inclusion, families, and partnerships, the authors present a realistic look at the workings of special education as future teachers, both general and special educators, will need to know it. Focused on real students with special needs, this book offers strategies and interventions based upon 5 core values: envisioning high expectations, enhancing positive contributions, building on strengths, acting on choices, expanding relationships, and ensuring full citizenship. General K-12 Inservice Teachers and Special Educators.

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Through real-life stories about children, their families, and their teachers, and through the use of the most recent evidence-based research on special education, this important book provides a comprehensive introduction to special education and its relationship to general education. The seventh edition provides this experience within the framework of three guiding themes: Inclusion, Partnerships, and Universal Design for Progress. Long noted for its focus on progress in general education through inclusion, families, and parent-professional partnerships, the new seventh edition of Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Today's Schools, now includes a “Universal Design for Progress” feature in every chapter which highlights a technology that can be used to meet the needs of students with disabilities. This text stands out from the crowd with its strong belief in the capacity of special educators, general educators, related service professionals, and families to collaborate with one another for inclusion, and that inclusion is not only possible but desirable.

The book presents comprehensive, data-based, and conceptually consistent approaches for families and professionals to collaborate for empowerment.

Guide for parents and professionals on how to collaborate and to advocate for children with special needs. This current edition includes a multicutural approach and vignettes of over a dozen families to provide an understanding of how empowerment can help.

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Through real-life stories about children, their families, and their teachers, and through the use of the most recent evidence-based research on special education, this important book provides a comprehensive introduction to special education and its relationship to general education. The seventh edition provides this experience within the framework of three guiding themes: Inclusion, Partnerships, and Universal Design for Progress. Long noted for its focus on progress in general education through inclusion, families, and parent-professional partnerships, the new seventh edition of Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Today's Schools, now includes a "Universal Design for Progress" feature in every chapter which highlights a technology that can be used to meet the needs of students with disabilities. This text stands out from the crowd with its strong belief in the capacity of special educators, general educators, related service professionals, and families to collaborate with one another for inclusion, and that inclusion is not only possible but desirable.

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Through real-life stories about children, their families, and their teachers, and through the use of the most recent evidence-based research on special education, this important book provides students with a comprehensive introduction to special education and its relationship to general education. The sixth edition provides this experience within the framework of three guiding themes: Inclusion, Partnerships, and Universal Design for Learning. Long noted for its focus on progress in general education through inclusion, families, and parent-professional partnerships, the new sixth edition of Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Today's Schools, now includes a "Values and Outcomes" end-of-chapter feature that focuses on ideal educational results as well as IEP marginal notes that allow readers to link content to practical lessons. New to this Edition! NEW! "Values and Outcomes"sections appear at the end of each chapter to discuss the ideal educational outcomes for each student presented in the opening vignette outcomes that can occur if teachers put highly effective, research-based strategies into practice and uphold the values addressed throughout the book. NEW! IEP Margin Notes are integrated throughout each chapter to help inform teachers of their role in the IEP process in relation to chapter content video clips on MyEducationLab reinforce this IEP focus. Both IEP features help link content with a practical focus. MyEducationLab! To package this text with the book-specific version of MyEdLab use this ISBN: 0-136-10141-0 Chapter 3 is completely revised in the sixth edition. See the table of contents for changes. More in-depth coverage in chapter 2 on the IEP process. More in-depth coverage of Response-to-Intervention (RTI) in chapter 5.