Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities

This essential text and practitioner guide is unique in its emphasis on fostering academic learning as well as life skills. In-depth chapters cover reading, mathematics, science, and social studies, as well as health care needs, communication and social skills, daily living, and job skills. The expert authors present research-based best practices for assessing each student's needs and crafting individualized education plans that build a strong foundation for life in the community. User-friendly features include engaging vignettes, sample lesson plans, and reproducible checklists and forms. The text is a contemporary follow-up to Diane M. Browder's widely adopted Curriculum and Assessment for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities.

There are several ways teachers can promote this knowledge concurrently with
teaching comprehension. In presenting ... Generating and answering questions
are integral components in comprehending narrative and expository texts. An
effective ... Furthermore, the application and effectiveness of questioning
techniques are positively correlated with the comprehension abilities of the
readers. According ...