This book has been replaced by Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities, Second Edition, 978-1-4625-4238-3.

Packed with instructional strategies for students with significant disabilities, this research-based resource helps teachers adapt their curriculum, work collaboratively, develop accurate assessments, track student progress, and more.

This field-tested curriculum, serving learners from kindergarten through age 21, is designed to prepare students with disabilities to thrive in the real world.

"For years the text of choice for developing excellence as a teacher of K-12 students with moderate and severe disabilities, this clearly written work has now been revised and updated. Chapters provide step-by-step procedures for designing standards-based individualized education plans and evaluating and enhancing student progress. Methods and materials for teaching literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies are described in depth. The book also describes effective ways to build functional daily living skills. User-friendly features include extensive vignettes and classroom examples, end-of-chapter application exercises, and reproducible planning and assessment tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. Subject Areas/Key words: special education, children, adolescents, special-needs learners, disabled, moderately, severely, developmental disorders, academic interventions, academic skills, life skills, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, inclusion classrooms, systematic instruction, special educators, teachers, literacy, reading, mathematics, textbooks, texts Audience: Students in special education and school psychology; K-12 special educators, school psychologists, reading specialists, classroom teachers, and administrators"--

This contributed volume, written by scholars in the field, provides readers with critical information regarding moderately to severely disabled students. Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities in Inclusive Settings offers a description of appropriate curriculum content for students with moderate or severe disabilities in inclusive settings, and a process through which collaborative education teams can identify appropriate functional and general education curriculum content. In addition instructional approaches that facilitate the infusion of instruction and curriculum for students with significant disabilities within general education contexts are discussed. This book also provides background on inclusion for students with moderate or severe disabilities, related to both legal considerations and research findings. Developers of special education curriculum, special education teachers, school administrators.