Exceptional Lives: Practice, Progress, & Dignity in Today's Schools, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (July 1, 2020) © 2020

  • Ann Turnbull
  • H Rutherford Turnbull University of Kansas, Emeritus
  • Michael L. Wehmeyer University of Kansas
  • Karrie A. Shogren University of Kansas
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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 inclusion of students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Exceptional Lives gives you a comprehensive view of the rewards, challenges and triumphs involved in special education today.

The 9th Edition highlights the important themes of ensuring students' progress using research-based instruction and the ethical principle of dignity. New chapters examine educational progress and long-term outcomes, school-wide supports, cross-cutting instructional approaches and diversity and social justice.

  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. School-wide Systems of Supports
  6. Cross-cutting Instructional Approaches
  7. Students with Learning Disabilities
  8. Students with Speech and Language 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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