Exceptional Learners: An Introduction to Special Education, 14th edition

• Misconceptions About Exceptional Learners: Myths and Facts begin each chapter. These debunk common myths about students with exceptionalities and help readers see and understand more clearly the students with whom they will be working.
• Peer Connections, based on interviews with individuals with a disability between the ages of 18-25, give students a better understanding of exceptionality as they read about the lives of exceptional learners who are young adults.
• Success Stories: Special Educators at Work help readers understand the knowledge, skills, and dispositions special educators should possess when they enter the field.

• UPDATED: Features new definitions of Specific Learning Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, and Autism Spectrum Disorders, from the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5.
• EXPANDED: Revised coverage of special education in the context of the Common Core State Standards Initiative provides readers with an understanding of the interconnection between general and special education (Ch. 2).

• Deliver trusted content: You deserve teaching materials that meet your own high standards for your course. That’s why we partner with highly respected authors to develop interactive content and course-specific resources that you can trust–and that keep your students engaged.
• Video Examples in the MyLab eText use real classroom footage to illustrate or expand on key chapter concepts, helping students better understand course content. Interviews from the authors and experts in the field further describe current approaches to teaching students with special needs
• IRIS Center Resources (http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu), including challenge-based interactive modules, case study units, and podcasts that provide research-validated information about working with students in inclusive settings, are integrated throughout the MyLab.
• Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace. Personalized learning pinpoints the precise areas where each student needs practice, giving all students the support they need–when and where they need it–to be successful.
• Application Exercises challenge learners to reflect on and to apply what they have learned. Each scaffolded exercise provides immediate feedback in the form of model responses written by experts.
• Self-Check Quizzes throughout the eText help students assess how well they have mastered content. These self-grading multiple-choice quizzes provide immediate feedback on whether questions have been answered correctly or incorrectly, as well as rationales.
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• Improve student results: When you teach with MyLab, student performance often improves. That’s why instructors have chosen MyLab for over 15 years, touching the lives of over 50 million students.

Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what's new in this edition.

• Features new definitions of Specific Learning Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, and Autism Spectrum Disorders, from the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5.
• Revised coverage of special education in the context of the Common Core State Standards Initiative provides readers with an understanding of the interconnection between general and special education (Ch. 2).
• Chapter-by-chapter changes include:
• More emphasis on abilities, rather than disabilities, of students in special education (Ch. 1)
• Updated percentages of students of various ethnic groups receiving special education (Ch. 3)
• Greater emphasis on the importance of family resiliency in the face of having a child with a disability (Ch. 4)
• A more succinct explanation of the critical role of systematic instruction for students with intellectual disabilities (Ch. 5)
• An expanded and more in-depth discussion of literacy instruction and learning disabilities; expanded discussion on identification of students with learning disabilities, including strengths and weaknesses in cognitive processing (Ch. 6)
• More emphasis on the importance of executive functioning and behavioral inhibition (Ch. 7)
• The importance of neuronal underconnectivity between the front and back of the brain in people with autism spectrum disorders (Ch. 9)
• Updated information on how sign language evolves naturally among people who are deaf, further demonstrating that sign language is a bona fide language (Ch. 11)
• Expanded coverage of traumatic brain injury, especially in the context of sports injuries (Ch. 13)
• Research linking spina bifida and learning disabilities (Ch. 14)
• The inherent difficulties of defining giftedness in a multicultural society (Ch. 15)

• Video Examples in the MyLab eText use real classroom footage to illustrate or expand on key chapter concepts, helping students better understand course content. Interviews from the authors and experts in the field further describe current approaches to teaching students with special needs
• IRIS Center Resources (http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu), including challenge-based interactive modules, case study units, and podcasts that provide research-validated information about working with students in inclusive settings, are integrated throughout the MyLab.
• Application Exercises challenge learners to reflect on and to apply what they have learned. Each scaffolded exercise provides immediate feedback in the form of model responses written by experts.
• Self-Check Quizzes throughout the eText help students assess how well they have mastered content. These self-grading multiple-choice quizzes provide immediate feedback on whether questions have been answered correctly or incorrectly, as well as rationales.

Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what's new in this edition.