Full Description
What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today - and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in the lives of people with severe disabilities; explore necessary reforms to policy and practice; and set clear goals and priorities for improving early intervention, education, health care, behaviour supports, and social services. Whether used as a textbook or a professional reference, this innovative volume will help usher in a new era of services that support full inclusion and quality of life for people with severe disabilities.
Covers Today's Most Critical Topics:
Addressing inequities in our educational and social services system
Designing and delivering effective early intervention and education
Expanding and improving inclusive education
Supporting families of children with severe disabilities
Resolving challenges to person-centered planning and self-determination
Providing effective and respectful positive behaviour supports
Improving access to the general curriculum
Delivering effective literacy instruction to students with severe disabilities
Removing barriers to friendships and social relationships
Supporting students with health care needs in general education classrooms
Promoting access to postsecondary education, employment, and community life
Providing appropriate medical and social services to elderly individuals with severe disabilities
Online Companion Materials: This book comes with online PowerPoint slides for faculty, ideal for complementing and enhancing lessons.
Contents
About the Online Companion Materials
About the Editors
Contributors
Foreword David L. Westling and Barbara Trader
Preface
Acknowledgments
I Foundations
1. Disability in the 21st Century: Seeking a Future of Equity and Full Participation, Michael Wehmeyer
2. Poverty and Disability: Addressing the Ties that Bind, Carolyn Hughes and Latanya L. Fanion
3. Forty Years of Living and Thriving with Disabilities: Perceptions of a Self-Advocate and Her Family, Michelle Sommerstein, Lynn Sommerstein, Robert Sommerstein, David Sommerstein, and Diane Ryndak
4. Person-Centered Planning and the Quest for Systems Change, John O'Brien
5. Promoting Self-Determination and Self-Directed Learning, Martin Agran and Carolyn Hughes
6. Providing Respectful Behavior Supports, Fredda Brown and Linda M. Bambara
II Children and Youth
7. Early Intervention and Early Education, Lise Fox, Mary Frances Hanline, Juliann Woods, and Ann Mickelson
8. Inclusive Education and Meaningful School Outcomes, John McDonnell and Pam Hunt
9. Literacy and Communication, Susan Copeland, Elizabeth Keefe, and J.S. de Valenzuela
10. Social Interactions and Friendships, Erik W. Carter, Kristen Bottema-Beutel, and Matthew E. Brock
11. Access to the General Education Curriculum in General Education Classes, Fred Spooner, Bethany R. McKissick, Melissa E. Hudson, and Diane M. Browder
12. Serving Students with Health Care Needs, Donna Lehr
III Adult Outcomes
13.Ensuring Employment Outcomes: Preparing Students for a Working Life, Michael Callahan, John Butterworth, Jane Boone, Ellen Condon, and Richard Luecking
14. Postsecondary Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Meg Grigal, Debra Hart, and Cate Weir
15. Evolving Narratives in Community Living, Lyle T. Romer and Pamela Walker
16. Serving an Elderly Population, Christine Bigby, Philip McCallion, and Mary McCarron
17. Medicaid Waivers and Medicare Support: A 21st-Century Perspective, Tom Nerney, Julie Marron, and Mike Head
IV A Look Around and Ahead
18. Societal Inclusion and Equity Internationally: Initiatives, Illustrations, Challenges, and RecommendationsDiane Ryndak, Deborah S. Reed, Grzegorz Szumski, Ann-Marie Orlando, Joanna Smogorzewska, and Wei Gao
19. Future Directions and Possibilities, Martha E. Snell and Virginia L. Walker
Index
