Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (7th Edition) - Hardcover

William L. Heward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130993441 ISBN 13: 9780130993441

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

For over two decades, professors at more than 350 colleges and universities have relied on this comprehensive, engaging book for professional research, current practice, and trends in special education. Grounded in scholarship, yet written with the human experience in mind, this best-selling book effectively conveys the stories of teachers and children in special education. This latest edition adds a focus on master teachers and integrates professional standards from CEC and PRAXIS™ to make this the best book to help you train effective special educators and to introduce pre- and inservice general education teachers to exceptional children. This book provides some of the most comprehensive coverage of the characteristics of learners with special needs, as well as some of the latest assistive technologies like hand-held PDAs, the AAMR's new 2002 definition and classification system for mental retardation. For teaching professionals in the field of Special Education.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Widely recognized for its innovation, strong research base, and accessibility, the new edition of William Heward's Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education helps prepare readers to become effective special educators using three themes:

EFFECTIVE TEACHERS ENGAGE IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CEC Professional Standards and Praxis Competencies: Through joint agreements with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) and the Educational Testing Services, new CEC and PRAXIS margin notes link critical text content to knowledge and skill statements from CEC's Professional Standards for Beginning Teachers and to material on PRAXIS tests for special educators.

Observe Master Teachers: New to this edition, each chapter opens with the profile of a real teacher of exceptional children. Drawn from urban, suburban, and rural environments, these teachers' stories reflect the joys, challenges, and realities of actual classrooms and allow readers to observe master teachers at work.

The Most Current Coverage: This edition provides coverage of the latest assistive technologies such as hand-held PDAs, the newly revised 2002 definition and classification system for mental retardation issued by the AAMR, and hundreds of new references.

EFFECTIVE TEACHERS KNOW THEIR STUDENTS AND KNOW WHAT WORKS

Effective Intervention Strategies: "Teaching & Learning" feature boxes describe proven strategies that are classroom-tested and validated by research.

First-Person Accounts: "Profiles & Perspectives" feature boxes highlight the struggles and triumphs of persons with disabilities and share the views of parents, special educators, and other professionals.

Depth of Coverage: Exceptional Children provides the most comprehensive coverage of the characteristics of learners with special needs. For example, this is the only text in the market that devotes complete chapters to early childhood special education, transition to adulthood, and working with parents and families.

EFFECTIVE: TEACHERS INCORPORATE MULTIMEDIA

Companion Website: Located at www.prenhall.com/heward, the user-friendly Companion Website (CW) provides online resources for professors as well as students and is integrated into the textbook via CW margin notes.

Online Courses: Robust web-based courses in Course Compass and Blackboard formats are easy to implement, manage, and use, and help you incorporate technology into your classroom or deliver instruction online.

Teaching and Learning Video Library: The Teaching and Learning Video Library contains five compelling videos with topics ranging from inclusion, IDEA, and IEP decision making to classwide peer tutoring and post-secondary transitions.

Developing Quality IEPs: A Case-Based Tutorial CD-ROM: The free CD-ROM packaged with every copy of the text walks students through the development of IEPs, providing two interactive tutorials, six case studies, and a variety of additional resources.

About the Author

William Lee Heward grew up in Three Oaks, Michigan, rooting for his hero Ernie Banks and the Chicago Cubs. He majored in psychology and sociology as an undergraduate at Western Michigan University, earned his doctorate in special education at the University of Massachusetts, and joined the special education faculty at The Ohio State University in 1975. In 1985, Bill received Ohio State University's highest honor for teaching excellence, the Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award. He has had several opportunities to teach and lecture abroad, most recently in 1993 when he served as a Visiting Professor of Psychology at Keio University in Tokyo.

Bill's current research interests focus on "low tech" methods classroom teachers can use to increase the frequency with which each student actively responds and participates during group instruction and on methods for promoting the generalization and maintenance of newly learned skills.

His research has appeared in the field's leading journals, including Behavioral Disorders, Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Exceptional Children, Journal of Special Education, Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, Research in Developmental Disabilities, Teacher Education and Special Education, and Teaching Exceptional Children.

Bill has coauthored four other textbooks, and he has written for the popular market.. His book Some Are Called Clowns (Crowell, 1974) chronicled his five summers as a pitcher for the Indianapolis Clowns, the last of the barnstorming baseball teams.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0130993441
• ISBN 13: 9780130993441
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 704