Addressing the Unproductive Classroom Behaviours of Students with Special Needs. Steve Chinn, $32.95

Certain classroom behaviours can signify an underlying learning disability. This book will help you recognize potential indicators of Asperger Syndrome, dyslexia, dyspraxia, AD/HD, physical disabilities and speech and language disorders. The book also explores the benefits of different interventions; and offers practical strategies for improving pupils' behaviours, social skills and self-esteem.

This practical, accessible book is an essential tool kit for special educational needs coordinators, learning support staff and teachers in both primary and secondary schools.

Challenging behavior is a significant barrier to communication, education, and positive social relationships. This practical book helps psychologists, educators, rehabilitation specialists, and other professionals recognize and address the causes of these problems in individuals with developmental disabilities — and resolve even the most difficult behavior challenges.

Autism: Classroom Strategies from A-Z. Wendy Ashcroft, Sue Argiro & Joyce Keohane, $12.95 (Laminated Reference Guide)

This comprehensive guide contains a wide range of practical and research-based strategies to help general and special education teachers who are working with students with autism and its associated characteristics. Although these powerful strategies are effective for classroom use, they are also useful for schools to use with parents who are involved in helping their children with the many challenges that are presented by autism. It is a powerful reference guide and using it is as easy as A to Z!

Behavior Solutions for the Inclusive Classroom. Beth Aune, Beth Burt & Peter Gennaro, $15.50

More Behavior Solutions In and Beyond the Inclusive Classroom: a Must-Have for Teachers and Other Educational Professionals. Beth Aune, Beth Burt & Peter Gennaro, $15.95

As inclusion becomes the norm in general education, teachers are faced with behaviors they may have never seen before. This book illuminates possible causes of those mysterious behaviors, and more importantly, provides solutions. Teachers can quickly look up an in-the-moment solution and learn about what the child is communicating, and why.

Best Practices for the Inclusive Classroom: Scientifically Based Strategies for Success. Edited by Richard Boon & Vicky Spencer, $45.50

Written by expert teachers and researchers, Best Practices for the Inclusive Classroom looks at field-tested strategies teachers of inclusive classrooms need to implement to successfully teach all of the learners in their classroom.

Brain-Friendly Strategies for the Inclusion Classroom. Judy Willis, $28.50

If you've ever felt unprepared to teach students with learning disabilities, here's a book that will extend your brain-friendly teaching practices to address students with learning disabilities and other special challenges. Neurologist and classroom teacher Judy Willis explains how the research on how people learn can help you to build safe and supportive classroom communities for students with learning disabilities and create a rich and inviting learning environment for all students in an inclusive classroom. To help you make the right accommodations and interventions, the book provides lots of sample lessons, teaching strategies, and tips.

Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms to Support Children with Challenging Behaviors.  Rebecca Moyes, $20.50

Sensory Integration Disorder often manifests as a behavioral problem. This book shows teachers how to incorporate data-driven strategies in designing a classroom that both minimizes stress and improves student productivity.

Common Sense for the Inclusive Classroom: How Teachers Can Maximize Existing Skills to Support Special Educational Needs. Richard Hanks, $27.95

Following a modern 'a la carte' concept, Common Sense for the Inclusive Classroom acts first and foremost as a teaching menu, offering a variety of options that teachers can use as and when they see fit. Written in a jargon-free, accessible style, the author gets to the heart of issues associated with teaching mixed ability classes, offering more flexible alternatives to traditional teaching strategies and suggesting helpful approaches that really work.

Combining practical methods with factual information about learning difficulties, this book is an invaluable resource for non-specialist teachers supporting children with special educational needs in inclusive classrooms.

Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook: Ready-to-Use Strategies & Activities for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities, 3rd Edition. Joan Harwell, $35.95 (K-12)

The third edition of this classic resource is a comprehensive source of information, strategies, and activities for working with learning disabled students. The book offers special educators, classroom teachers, and parents a wealth of new and proven suggestions and ready-to-use materials for helping LD students of all ages learn and perform at their fullest potential.

Co-Teaching in Secondary Schools: 7 Steps to Successful Inclusion. Lisa Dieker & Rebecca Hines, $13.95 (Laminated Reference Guide)

Co-teaching at any grade level can be a challenge, because it requires educators to reshape their thinking, modify existing practices, and accept change. Written by Drs. Lisa Dieker and Rebecca Hines, teacher trainers in the field of co-teaching, this reference guide provides a wide range of evidence-based strategies. It specifically addresses the seven steps to successful co-teaching for educators working in middle and high school environments. A valuable resource for all professionals committed to building stronger, more effective co-teaching teams.

Count Me In! Ideas for Actively Engaging Students in Inclusive Classrooms. Richard Rose & Michael Shevlin, $34.95

School really should be the best time in a young person's life - full of discovery, enjoyment and friendship. In reality, school can be a negative experience where young people feel powerless, bored and uninterested. Count Me In shows how, by involving young people in their own learning, they not only improve their education but also feel empowered and have fun along the way.

Ideal for general educators, special educators, administrators, educational leaders, related service professionals, para-educators and self-advocates, From Disability to Possibility illustrates, through stories of struggle and success, how creative, conscientious teachers can work with everyone involved in a student’s learning to make special education work.

From Home to School with Autism: How to Make Inclusion a Success. K.I. Al-Ghani & Lynda Kenward, $34.95

This positive and practical book arms schools with a wealth of essential information, easy-to-implement strategies and photocopiable resources that will help to make early schooldays an enjoyable experience for young children on the spectrum. Constructive suggestions, such as introducing visual schedules and accommodating sensory issues, will help children with ASD to feel comfortable in school, and activities including making a 'happy scrapbook' and a home-school diary will support staff-home liaison.

Functional Assessment & Curriculum for Teaching Students with Disabilities — Volumes I-IV. Michael Bender, Peter Valletutti, Carol Ann Baglin & Audrey Smith Hoffnung, $56.95 each; Four Volume Set, $189.95

Now substantially revised and available in four volumes, these books are intended as a guide for educators, special education teachers, school administrators, counselors, and other professionals involved in rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities.

Included are suggested activities that are divided into two major categories, Teacher Interventions and Family Interventions. These two categories are then divided into four subcategories of distinct age/grade levels – from infancy through secondary school/young adulthood.

All units within each volume comprise specific goals, related references, suggested readings, and selected materials/resources. 

Volume I:  Self-Care, Motor Skills, House Management and Living Skills, 4th Edition
Volume II: Nonverbal Communication, Oral Communications and Literacy Preparation, 4th Edition
Volume III: Functional Academics, 3rd Edition
Volume IV: Interpersonal, Competitive Job-Finding and Leisure-Time Skills, 2nd Edition

Getting the Most Out of IEPs: an Educator’s Guide to the Student-Directed Approach. Colleen Thoma & Paul Wehman, $34.50

Student-directed IEPs are quickly gaining momentum in schools — the proven benefits include higher academic achievement, enhanced student motivation, and increased communication and self-advocacy skills for students with disabilities. Now for the first time, there's a book that gives elementary and high school educators in-depth how-to guidance on making student-directed IEPs work for students with a range of special needs.

Packed with practical advice, helpful examples, and IEP resources for students themselves, this guidebook puts into print the best ideas for developing meaningful student-directed IEPs while adhering to legal requirements and evidence-based practices. Teachers will learn how to support students—regardless of their current skills and abilities—as they increase their own level of direction across every facet of the IEP process.

Great Ideas: Using Service-Learning and Differentiated Instruction to Help Your Students Succeed. Pamela Gent, $41.95

Much more than "community service,” service-learning activities help improve outcomes for all students when they're carefully linked to the curriculum and IEP goals. This book shows K-12 educators and administrators exactly how this approach promotes inclusion and differentiated instruction for students with and without disabilities. A fresh, hands-on guide to inclusion that goes beyond co-teaching, collaboration, or accommodations, this highly practical book will help educators make the most of every student's unique abilities—and build better communities inside and outside the classroom.

A Guide to Itinerant Early Childhood Special Education Services. Laurie Dinnebeil & William McInerney, $43.95

Itinerant special educators can be much more than "tutors" for young children with special needs. They can transform whole classrooms and help inclusion flourish — if they have the clear guidelines and best practices they need to make the most of their critical roles. This is the book that every itinerant early childhood special educator needs, that takes the guesswork out of their jobs and shows them how to make a real difference in preschool classrooms.

A professional development resource that programs will rely on as itinerant services continue to thrive, this urgently needed book will help "traveling teachers" become agents of change in early childhood classrooms — and give young children with disabilities the best possible start in school.

This thoroughly updated edition of the best-selling book gives all classroom teachers, special educators, and administrators an arsenal of adaptable and ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities. How to Reach and Teach All Children in the Inclusive Classroom is a comprehensive resource that helps teachers reach students with varied learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors. The authors offer a team approach that includes parents, colleagues, and learning specialists, enabling teachers to guide diverse groups of students in grades 3–8 toward academic, social, and emotional success.

The IEP from A to Z: How to Create Meaningful and Measurable Goals and Objectives. Diane Twachtman-Cullen & Jennifer Twachtman-Bassett, $35.95

This step-by-step guide shows teachers and parents how to get the right education plan in place for students with ADHD, Autism/Asperger's, Emotional/Behavioral Disturbance, and related conditions.

• Provides easy-to-understand explanations of the special education process along with a wealth of sample effective IEPs
• Explains what is most important for educators and parents to keep in mind during IEP development
• Provides content area-specific sample goal and objective templates, general teaching tips for maintaining the IEP, and useful resources

From nationally recognized experts in the special education field, this book guides readers through the process of writing thoughtful, intelligent Individualized Education Plans that deliver high-quality, need-based educational programming to exceptional students.

Including One, Including All: a Guide to Relationship-Based Early Childhood Inclusion. Leslie Roffman, Todd Wanerman & Cassandra Britton, $46.95

Inclusive early childhood settings benefit all children, whether or not they have identifies special needs. Including One, Including All provides theoretical, conceptual, and practical information on relationship-based, inclusive practices for early childhood classrooms, an approach that strengthens every child and supports the child's behavioral, emotional, social, and learning challenges. Written by a team of professionals who are known for their successful work using this model, the book includes blueprints for organizing the important work with children and their families and addresses the challenges and rewards of inclusion in early childhood classrooms, and chronicles the experiences of two children with special needs in early childhood settings.

Inclusion Strategies That Work for Adolescent Learners. Toby Karten, $66.25

Higher performance and more positive experiences are possible for all adolescent learners with some guidance, perseverance, and the right techniques. Toby Karten provides teachers with a practical approach for creating a successful inclusive secondary classroom.

Inclusive Programming for High School Students with Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome. Sheila Wagner, $27.50

This comprehensive guide will help you give your child or student the best possible high school experience. You will learn how to help students navigate the social minefields of friendships and dating, while fostering the executive functioning skills they will need as adults.

Life Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs. Darlene Mannix, $35.95

190+ ready-to-use lessons with reproducible worksheets to help adolescents develop the basic skills necessary to experience independence and success in everyday life.

The book provides 22 complete teaching units focusing on basic life skills such as handling money, succeeding at school, using the Internet safely, getting and keeping a job, and much more. The book also contains 90 reproducible worksheets for teaching students how to apply these life skills to real-life situations.

Life Skills Activities for Special Children. Darlene Mannix, $35.95

Over 150 ready-to-use reproducible worksheets to help children develop the basic skills necessary to experience independence and success in everyday life.

Each of the book's activities focuses on specific skills within the context of real-life situations and includes complete teacher instructions for effective use, from objective and introduction through optional extension activities and methods to assess student learning. The book includes numerous reproducible parent letters which can be sent home to help parents reinforce these lessons while children are away from school.

Making Differentiation a Habit: How to Ensure Success in Academically Diverse Classrooms. Diane Heacox, $49.95 (Book with CD-ROM)

Framed around the critical elements for success in today's classrooms, Making Differentiation a Habit gives educators specific, user-friendly tools to optimize teaching, learning, and assessment. Following on the heels of Diane Heacox's best-selling teacher resource, Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom, this book offers new ideas, fresh perspectives, and additional research-based strategies to help teachers seamlessly integrate differentiation practices into their daily routines.

Making Inclusion Work for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders: an Evidence-Based Guide. Tristram Smith, $43.50

An indispensable resource for K–12 educators and autism specialists, this highly practical book shows how to include students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in general education settings. Tristram Smith and his associates present a research-based, step-by-step process for assessing students at a range of skill levels, planning and implementing successful inclusion programs, and working as a team with other professionals and with parents. The book is packed with specific strategies for helping students with ASD follow the daily routine, learn from the general education curriculum, interact with peers, and overcome problem behavior.

The Paraprofessional’s Essential Guide to Inclusive Education. Peggy Hammeken, $48.50

A practical reference tool for all paraprofessionals working in inclusive settings, filled with easy-to-implement strategies to help paraprofessionals work effectively with students and colleagues. Readers will find practical guidelines for classroom routines, progress and discipline charts, daily/weekly assignment sheets, and activities for individual reflection.

Pedro's Whale.  Paula Kluth & Patrick Schwarz, Illustrated by Justin Canha, $20.50

Based on the real-life event that inspired the bestselling  book Just Give Him the Whale!, this simple but powerful story introduces educators to one of the best, most effective inclusion strategies: using students' fascinations to help them learn. An ideal teaching tool, Pedro's Whale will inspire educators to harness their students' natural motivations. The engaging, full-color illustrations (by Justin Canha, a gifted artist on the autism spectrum) also make this book perfect for storytime, so all children can increase their sensitivity to peers with special needs and learning differences.

Everyone who reads Pedro's Whale will remember its eye-opening message: when you work with instead of against what students love, they feel safe, happy, and ready to learn. This enlightening story will help teachers maximize inclusion and ensure that students with and without disabilities reach their full potential.

Peer Buddy Programs for Successful Secondary School Inclusion. Carolyn Hughes & Erik Carter, $34.50

When secondary schools are committed to inclusion, everybody wins and students with and without disabilities enjoy higher academic achievement and new friendships. A good peer buddy program can play an invaluable role in making inclusion happen, and this guidebook shows educators exactly why and how.

The School Counselor's Guide to Helping Students with Disabilities, Grades K-12. Laura Marshak, Claire Dandeneau, Fran Prezant & Nadene L'Amoreaux, $39.95

Down-to-earth advice for helping students with disabilities succeed.

The School Counselor's Guide to Helping Students with Disabilities offers school counselors a practical guide for handling the complexities of working with children and youth who have disabilities. The book is organized to correspond with the myriad responsibilities and roles assumed by school counselors and special education staff in elementary, middle and high school settings, in order to address the practicalities and possibilities of working with students with disabilities.

Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs, Grades 6-12, 2nd Edition. Darlene Mannix, $35.95

200 ready-to-use lessons and worksheets to help students learn social skills for home, school, work and the community.

The updated new edition of this valuable resource offers an exciting collection of worksheets to help adolescents build the social skills they need to interact effectively with others and learn how to apply these skills to various real-life settings, situations, and problems. The book provides complete teaching units focusing on 20 basic social skills, such as being a good listener, "reading" other people, and using common sense.

Social Skills Activities for Special Children, Grades K-5, 2nd Edition. Darlene Mannix, $32.95

Over 160 ready-to-use lessons and worksheets to help children use social skills inside and outside the classroom.

Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations, giving teachers a means to guide students to think about why the social skill is important. The hands-on activity that accompanies each lesson helps students to work through, think about, discuss, and practice the skill in or outside of the classroom.

Successful Inclusion for Students with Autism: Creating a Complete, Effective ASD Inclusion Program. Sonja de Boer, $39.95

Successful Inclusion for Students with Autism gives teachers in both special and general education as well as administrators the information they need to start and maintain an effective inclusion program for children with autism spectrum disorders. The book also offers a wealth of helpful forms, checklists, and handouts that will assist with implementing the inclusion program and ensure that all involved—educators, administrators, parents, and students—have the information necessary to make the program successful.

The Teacher’s Guide to Inclusive Education: 750 Strategies for Success! Peggy Hammeken, $50.95

This is a practical, comprehensive resource to help educators establish or enrich an inclusive education program to meet the needs of today’s diverse classroom environment. It includes strategies for working with students with English as a second language; students with special needs, at-risk and low achievers and students who simply need more support in order to be successful in the classroom.

Teacher’s Survival Guide: the Inclusive Classroom. Cynthia Simpson, Vicky Spencer & Jeffrey Bakken, $22.95

This practical guide offers tip for classroom success for working in mixed-ability classrooms, including advice and strategies on topics like differentiation, classroom management, establishing parent-teacher relationships and more.

Teaching Infants, Toddlers and Twos with Special Needs. Clarissa Willis, $22.95

Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs is written for all teachers and directors who work with infants, toddlers, and twos, including special educators and educators working with typically developing children. This book specifically addresses the needs of children with developmental delays, as well as children at risk for developing special needs.

Each chapter includes strategies and adaptations that are easy to use and apply to all children. Examples are presented for managing the physical environment and for teaching skills that will enhance the overall development of infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs.

Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom: Ways to Challenge & Motivate Struggling Students to Achieve Proficiency with Required Standards. Susan Winebrenner, $52.95 (includes  CD-ROM)

A gold mine of practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies, and tips, Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom helps teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas to meet the needs of all learners—including those labeled remedial or LD; students of poverty; English language learners; and others who struggle to learn. Full of proven ways to significantly improve learning outcomes for students who score below proficiency levels, this is an essential resource for every educator. The included CD-ROM features all of the reproducibles from the book, plus many additional content organization and vocabulary charts covering study areas from art and music to math and science. Most forms are customizable. Macintosh and Windows compatible.

Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome and Other Hands-On Learners: Basic Survival Skills. DeAnna Horstmeier, $28.95

Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome and Other Hands-On Learners is about mastering math skills and concepts that are essential to surviving in a community. The guide recognizes that for someone with Down Syndrome, or another developmental disability, basic number sense — understanding sequences and place value, written numbers and the like — as well as the ability to do simple computations are keys to independence. Parents, teachers and counselors can use these techniques successfully at home or at school.

Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome and Other Hands-On Learners — Book 2: Advanced Survival Skills. DeAnna Horstmeier, $28.95

This much-anticipated sequel to DeAnna Horstmeier's popular and successful first book continues with her proven, practical activities to make learning concrete and more tangible to hands-on learners. Just like Book 1, the follow-up book focuses on survival math — computations and concepts that relate to everyday life and being as independent as possible. Book 2 reviews some of the basics but mostly focuses on more challenging skills that are usually taught in upper elementary, middle school and beyond, such as:

• Multiplication & Division: Using manipulatives and a calculator; solving word problems; memorizing multiplication facts.
• Fractions: Practicing fractions through cooking, especially measuring for baking; reading and writing mixed numbers (5 1/4); learning fraction equivalents.
• Measurement: Measuring to the nearest 1/4 inch; understanding how long a mile is and measurements for temperature, weather, food and units of capacity (cup, pint, quart, gallon).
• Money: Adding up mixed coins and bills; banking basics (depositing money, writing and cashing checks); tracking spending; budgeting (understanding the difference between discretionary and necessary purchases).
• Decimals: Writing and reading dollar amounts to the 10ths and 100ths; memorizing percentage and fraction equivalents.

Also available:

Teaching Math Activities and Games CD-ROM. DeAnna Horstmeier, $17.50

This CD-ROM contains the worksheets, games and teaching aids from the extensive appendices of both volumes of Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome and Other Hands-On Learners. Now you can conveniently print out and reproduce these items from your own computer. Print them in color and make multiple copies for home or school or to take on trips. The CD-ROM provides a wide range of offerings suitable for students of all ages who have Down syndrome, autism, or other cognitive disabilities.

Teaching Students Thinking Skills and Strategies: a Framework for Cognitive Education in Inclusive Settings. Dorothy Howie, $43.95

Developing the ability to think is a major part of education, which helps students become independent learners and participate fully in a learning environment.

This book sets out the theory and outlines a model for implementing the teaching of thinking at whole-school, group and individual levels in inclusive settings. The model uses a three-tier approach to ensure that all learners are included: teaching thinking for all, which takes into account common needs; working with small groups, for those with exceptional needs such as learning difficulties or high ability; and addressing individualized learning needs, including those with a complex disability. The book also addresses the impact of different social contexts, cultures and environmental surroundings on learning.

Teaching Students with Autism & Asperger's Syndrome in the Inclusive Classroom. Paula Kluth, $12.95 (Laminated Reference Guide)

Increasingly, special and general education teachers are collaborating in inclusive settings to educate students with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Furthermore, educators are finding that the differentiation of instruction for these students often results in better outcomes for all. This reference guide, written by Paula Kluth, author of YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE THIS KID provides a wide range of ideas for differentiating lessons, addressing behavior, fostering relationships, handling transitions and adapting the general education classroom for those students who present with the characteristics of Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. It includes essential information on the teaching of literacy and math, as well as tips to assist with homework. Valuable website/media/print resources are also provided.

Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings, 4th Canadian Edition. Smith, Polloway, Patton, Dowdy & McIntyre, $109.95

Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings continues to present an inclusive education philosophy and offer practical teacher-oriented inclusion techniques, via a categorical chapter organization. Unlike other texts in the discipline, Teaching Students both highlights the similarities and differences across Canada and frequently contrasts the Canadian situation with that of the US so that students are best informed about current special education practices throughout all of North America. Well-written and easy-to-read, this text offers a balanced presentation of theory and practice that students enjoy using, with evidence-based teaching suggestions that are very clear and helpful.

Trainer's Guide to Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs, CD-ROM. Gail Joseph, Susan Sandall & Ilene Schwartz, $109.95

An essential teaching companion for instructors of pre-K educators, this convenient CD-ROM is a vivid blueprint for effective inclusive education using the popular Building Blocks approach. Following the structure of the bestselling textbook with almost 40 pages of all-new material, this comprehensive guide helps teacher educators provide effective instruction on the three types of Building Blocks inclusion strategies. This CD-ROM gives trainers everything they need to enhance their teacher preparation sessions.

You, Your Child, and "Special" Education: a Guide to Dealing with the System; Revised Edition.  Barbara Coyne Cutler, $27.50

Going far beyond abstract advice, You, Your Child, and "Special" Education makes successful advocacy come to life through sample letters and dialogues, realistic vignettes, practical materials like a detailed classroom observation checklist, and solutions to large and small problems that might arise. This is an essential resource for every professional to share with the families they serve. Parents will discover how to become strong, independent, and effective advocates—and their children will get an inclusive and appropriate education that helps them reach their full potential.

You're Going to Love this Kid! Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom, Second Edition. Paula Kluth, $37.95

Thousands of educators have turned to You're Going to Love This Kid! for fresh ways to welcome and teach students with autism — and now the book teachers trust is fully revised and more practical than ever! Gathering feedback from teachers across the country during her popular workshops, autism expert Paula Kluth targeted this second edition to the specific needs of today's primary and secondary school educators.

Readers will also get updates on all of the other topics covered in the first edition, including fostering friendships, building communication skills, planning challenging and multidimensional lessons, and adapting the curriculum and the physical environment. And with the new first-person stories from people with autism and their teachers and parents, readers will have a better understanding of students on the spectrum and how to include them successfully.

A book that teachers will keep forever, this is the ultimate practical guide to including students with autism, teaching them effectively and sensitively, and appreciating the gifts they bring to the classroom.