What Every Teacher Should Know

This easy-to-use manual is an essential resource for classroom teachers and special education practitioners. It provides over 500 classroom-tested tips for helping special education students succeed in school as they face academic, social, emotional, and behavioural challenges.

What Every Teacher Should Know includes guidelines for developing positive relationships with parents and for conducting effective parent-teacher conferences.
Each chapter focuses on one of the following special needs areas including:
• Learning Disabilities
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Emotional Disabilities
• Speech and Language Disorders
• Hearing Impairments
• Visual Impairments
• Orthopedic and Other Health Impairments
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Developmental Disabilities
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders/Autism
• Giftedness.

All ages

". . . a concise, easy-to-use reference on various special needs that a teacher or youth worker may encounter on the job... Practical strategies will help both the teacher and fellow students appreciate what these children can do, rather than focus on what they cannot."
Youth Today