Educating Children With Multiple Disabilities: A Transdisciplinary Approach

Explains how to integrate skills of educators and service providers to improve education for learners with severe cognitive and physical disabilities, including sensorimotor difficulties, vision/hearing impairments, and mental retardation. Includes chapters on assessment, handling and positioning, instructional adaptations, and specific skills. This third edition offers new case examples, describes advances in research, and expands discussion of specific health care needs. For teachers, occupational and physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, nurses, and parents. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

"Helpful to all people working with students in the educational setting, as well as parents of students with disabilities, to give them a more global view of what services their child should be receiving, and how."