Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability

The Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability provides an integrated, transdisciplinary overview of research-based practices for teaching students with intellectual disability. This comprehensive volume emphasizes education across life stages, from early intervention in schools through the transition to adulthood, and highlights major educational and support needs of children and youth with intellectual disability. The implications of history, recent research, and existing information are positioned to systematically advance new practices and explore promising possibilities in the field. Driven by the collaboration of accomplished, nationally recognized professionals of varied approaches and philosophies, the book emphasizes practices that have been shown to be effective through multiple methodologies, so as to help readers select interventions based on the evidence of their effectiveness.

Michael L. Wehmeyer is the Ross and Mariana Beach Distinguished Professor of Special Education and Director and Senior Scientist at the Beach Center on Disability, University of Kansas, USA. He is a past president of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and founding co-editor of the AAIDD journal Inclusion.

Karrie A. Shogren is Professor of Special Education and Senior Scientist and Director of the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, University of Kansas, USA. She is founding co-editor of the AAIDD journal, Inclusion, and co-editor of the journal, Remedial and Special Education.