strategies for educating children with severe and multiple disabilities. This popular core text — for 15 years, a staple of teacher training programs in special education and related fields — thoroughly prepares preservice professionals with comprehensive coverage of the topics they'll need to know about. This expanded edition gives readersa new chapter outlining an integrated, collaborative approach to planning, instruction, and alternate assessmentcontributions from well-known experts representing a wider variety of disciplines, including special education, occupational therapy, nursing, and psychiatryextensive updates, including new vignettes, figures such as sample graphic overlays for alternate communication devices and illustrations of proper handling and positioning, sample forms such as IEP pages, and referencesa FREE online study companion, featuring learning objectives, sample syllabi, student activities, key terms, hundreds of study questions, and annotated links to web sites that supplement each chapter With the practical, research-based guidance in this textbook, future educators will learn how to educate students with severe and multiple disabilities in the setting where they will best be served.

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