Teaching Children with Special Needs

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Education of children with visual impairments. 3. Children with hearing and speech impairment. 4. Children with physical disabilities. 5. Learning disabilities and other disorders. 6. Identification and assessment. 7. Strategies for teaching students with disabilities. Bibliography. Index.

"All students require support from teachers, classmates, family, and friends in order to thrive and to gain full benefit from their school experience. Some children who have behavioral or communication disorders, or intellectual, physical or multiple disabilities or who are gifted, may require special education services or special education programmes in order to enable them to attend school and benefit fully from their school experience.

Special education also known as special ed or defectology refers to the teaching of students with a learning disability, a developmental disability or a behavioral problem, or that of gifted children. The field of special education is so diverse and complex that it overflows with unresolved issues. Although most individuals agree that special education is an aspect of education needed in today's society, they are unclear about how it should be defined or delivered.

This book is a general introduction to the characteristics of children's with disabilities and their education. This book emphasized classroom practices as well as the psychological, sociological, and medical aspects of disabilities.

The book is recommended for those individuals who are preparing to be special educators, those who are preparing to be general educators, the parents of disabled children and for professional in other fields who work with children having disabilities."