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Essential Elements for Assessing Infants and Preschoolers with Special Needs, Loose-Leaf Version

 
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Revered expert authors Mary McLean, Mary Louise Hemmeter, and Patricia Snyder have written an indispensable text for the early childhood educator with Essential Elements for Assessing Infants and Preschoolers with Special Needs. Filled with the most vital information about the best evidence-based practices for use in assessment of young children with special needs, this elemental resource guides the development of its audience–future educators of the very young–preparing them with the necessary skills to successfully carry-out assessment of young children with disabilities, age birth through five.

 

Carefully articulated and crafted in a clearly organized way, the twelve chapters that comprise this new entry to the field will provide its readers with the elements, the research, the application, and more. A strong overview and importance of assessment in EI/ECSE begins this practical new text, as assessment models and methods are presented, and assessing early learning environments is explored. Diversity, cultural competence, and assessment are key components to the text. The authors also address assessing language and communication, social competence and play skills, early academic skills, adaptive skills, motor skills, the functional assessment of challenging behaviors, and monitoring child progress. The text concludes with evidence-based practices in assessment.

 

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Revered early childhood expert authors present students of education with the most important information on evidence-based practices in assessing young children with special needs. Offering the most current research and practice to support the elemental content and application in the text, the authors lead future educators to successfully assess young children with disabilities, age birth through five. Clearly written, carefully articulated, and crafted with a perfected organization, this new resource will ensure that professional educators today and tomorrow are well-equipped with the essentials to teach, assess, and guide young children with extraordinary needs.

  • This text features the information you need to engage in the functional assessment of challenging behaviors, giving teachers what they need to know, and how to apply that information with their students.
  • Learn about the most up-to-date evidence-based strategies for assessing young children with special needs across developmental domains. This text provides information about current strategies for assessing children in social, language, cognitive, motor, and adaptive domains of development.
  • Become adept in the legal requirements for assessment, by learning about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), that specifies requirements of law relevant to the assessment of young children with disabilities.  
  • Culturally and linguistically appropriate assessment is given with identifiable, proven strategies for assessing young children who are Dual Language Learners.
  • Learn about the most current measurement models, scores, and characteristics of assessment instruments designed to assist students and professionals to become “assessment literate.”  Guidance for selecting appropriate assessment instruments is also provided.
  • This text fits perfectly with the typical course parameters, and with the availability of supplemental materials, including an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint slides.

 

About the Author:

Dr. Mary McLean is Kellner Professor of Early Childhood Education and Professor in the Department of Exceptional Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) where she heads the Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) Program and is Director of the Early Childhood Research Center. She is Past-President of the International Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC).  Dr. McLean is co-author of three books on the DEC Recommended Practices: Early intervention/early childhood special education:  Recommended practices (Pro-Ed, 1996), DEC recommended practices for early intervention/early childhood special education (Sopris West, 2000), and DEC recommended practices in early intervention/early childhood special education: A comprehensive guide (Sopris West, 2005). Dr. McLean is also co-author of two additional books on assessment published by Pearson: Assessing infants and preschoolers with special needs (2nd ed., Merrill/Prentice-Hall, 1996), and Assessing infants and preschoolers with special needs (3rd ed., Merrill/Prentice-Hall, 2004).

 

Dr. Mary Louise Hemmeter is an associate professor in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University. She teaches courses, advises students, and conducts research on early childhood issues, focusing her research on effective instruction, social emotional development and challenging behavior, and translating research to practice. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Early Intervention and serves on the editorial boards of other journals in early childhood special education. She served as President of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Early Childhood. She is co-author on three books: DEC Recommended Practices Workbook: Improving Practices for Young Children with Special Needs and Their Families (Missoula, MT: Division for Early Childhood), Blended practices in early childhood and early childhood special education (Brookes Publishing Co. 2005), and DEC recommended practices in early intervention/early childhood special education, (2nd ed., Sopris West. 2005).

 

Dr. Patricia Snyder is David Lawrence Jr. Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Studies; Professor in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies; affiliate Professor of Pediatrics; and Director of the Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. Dr. Snyder has worked for 35 years in community-based and university settings with a specialization in early intervention and early childhood special education. Initially trained as a speech-language therapist, she has been a direct service provider, teacher, early learning program administrator, faculty member, researcher, and higher education administrator. Dr. Snyder served as editor of the Journal of Early Intervention from 2002-2007 and currently is an associate editor for Topics in Early Childhood Special Education. Her research focuses on early childhood assessment and effective instruction, young children's social-emotional and communication competence, family-centered practices, and early childhood professional development. She has been a recipient of the Mary E. McEvoy Service to the Field award and the Merle B. Karnes Service to the Division award from the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children.

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  • PublisherPearson
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 0132757079
  • ISBN 13 9780132757072
  • BindingLoose Leaf
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages464

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