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Exceptional Lives: Practice, Progress, & Dignity in Today's Schools, 10th edition

Published by Pearson (August 17, 2023) © 2024

  • Ann Turnbull
  • H Rutherford Turnbull University of Kansas, Emeritus
  • Michael L. Wehmeyer University of Kansas
  • Karrie A. Shogren University of Kansas
  • Meghan M. Burke University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Title overview

Exceptional Lives focuses on real students, real stories and real solutions. It pairs real-life stories about children, their families and their educators with the most recent evidence-based research on the benefits of low-restrictive environments for students with disabilities. Exceptional Lives gives you a comprehensive view of the rewards, challenges and triumphs involved in special education today.

The 10th Edition highlights key themes, such as the ethical principle of dignity. New content, features and vignettes examine educational progress and the corresponding long-term outcomes, school-wide supports and cross-cutting instructional approaches.

Table of contents

  1. The Purposes, People, and Law of Special Education
  2. Disability and Cultural Justice
  3. Today's Families and Their Partnerships with Professionals
  4. Ensuring Educational Progress
  5. Multi-tiered Systems of Supports
  6. Cross-cutting Instructional Approaches
  7. Students with Learning Disabilities
  8. Students with Communication Disorders
  9. Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
  10. Students with Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  11. Students with Intellectual Disability
  12. Students with Autism
  13. Students with Multiple Disabilities and Traumatic Brain Injury
  14. Students with Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairments
  15. Students with Hearing Impairments
  16. Students with Visual Impairments
  17. Students Who Are Gifted and Talented
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