Full Description
Learn how to provide targeted support to students with sensory disabilities!
With the right modifications, students with sensory disabilities-impairments that affect how well they see and/or hear-can participate fully in general education classes alongside their neighbors and peers.
In Teaching Students With Sensory Disabilities discusses the defining characteristics and specific needs of students who are categorized as deaf, blind, or deaf-and-blind. Offering numerous practical classroom management tips and surprisingly easy instruction adjustments, this valuable resource shows teachers how they can provide instruction in a highly effective manner that will foster the independence of students with visual and hearing impairments in the general education classroom.
Including a pretest, posttest, and key vocabulary terms, this highly informative guide discusses everything educators need to know about students with sensory disabilities, including:
Cognitive characteristics and issues
Academic characteristics and issues
Physical characteristics and issues
Behavioral characteristics and issues
Communication characteristics and issues
Contents
About A Practical Approach to Special Education for Students With Special Needs
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Self-Assessment I
Introduction to Teaching Students with Sensory Disabilities
1.What Should Every Teacher Know About Visual Impairments?
Definition
Eligibility for Special Education
Prevalence
What you May See in Your Classroom
2.What Should Every Teacher Know About Hearing Impairments?
Definition
Types of Hearing Loss
Prevalence
What you May See in Your Classroom
3.What Should Every Teacher Know About Deafness and Blindness?
Definition
Prevalence
Characteristics
4.What Tools and Strategies Should Teachers Use to Support Students With Sensory Disabilities?
Eliminate Barriers
Improve Communication
Foster Independence
5.Sensory Disabilities in Perspective
Understand Characteristics
Support Accomodations
Foster Collaboration
Prepare for the Future
6. What Have We Learned?
Key Points
More About Visual Impairments
More About Hearing Impairments
Key Vocabulary
Self-Assessment II
Answer Key for Self-Assessments
On Your Own
Resources
Websites
Books
Journals & Articles
Organizations
References
Index
