Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings, Second Canadian Edition

Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings, Second Edition, offers practical coverage of teaching students with disabilities in the general education classroom. Expanded coverage of Autism, ADHD, cultural and linguistic diversity and a new chapter Classroom Management are among the key updates to this popular textbook.

 The text will help education teachers to meet the diverse needs of students with special needs. Solid research is presented in a highly readable style and format, which includes models, examples, strategies, and foundational information on each disability category.

Tom E.C. Smith is currently Professor and Head, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Arkansas. 

Edward A. Polloway is a Professor of Education and Human Development at Lynchburg College in Virginia, where he has taught since 1976.

James R. Patton is an Educational Consultant and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Carol A. Dowdy is Professor of Special Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she has taught since receiving her EdD degree from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Nancy Heath is Associate Professor of Integrated Education and School Psychology in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University.  She received her Ph.D. form the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.  She has taught and worked with students with special needs and consulted with teachers for more than 15 years.

Laureen J. McIntyre is Assistant Professor in the College of Education a the University of Saskatchewan, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in speech and language development and acquisition, special education, educational psychology, and applied measurement and evaluation.

Garnett C. Francis is a doctoral student in Educational Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan.  With an M.A in Special Education, she has worked as a classroom teacher and behavioral consultant, among other distinguished positions.