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Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs Fourth Edition, Edition
Contributor(s): Baker, Bruce L. (Author), Brightman, Alan (Author), Blacher, Jan (Author)

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 ISBN: 1557666970     ISBN-13: 9781557666970
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
OUR PRICE: $35.10  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: December 2003
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Annotation: Now in its fourth edition, this step-by-step guide to teaching everyday skills to children with special needs has been a popular resource for more than 20 years. Steps to Independence stems from the authors' belief that that parents are their children's first and most influential teachers. Based on years of work with parents, the book offers an easy-to-read, explicit program for teaching children with special needs the skills that will help them progress toward living as independently and happily as possible in the community.

The strengths of the earlier editions--reader-friendly, well-organized, and stepwise presentations of potentially complicated subjects through illustrations, forms, and vignettes, and a touch of humor--are still reflected in the fourth edition. Section I cover the basics of teaching, while Section II address teaching skills in specific areas (get-ready skills, self-help skills, toilet-training, play skills, self-care skills, home-care skills, information skills). Section III breaks down the often difficult topic of dealing with behavior problems. Section IV addresses the "computer revolution" and the critical topic of partnering with teachers. The five appendices serve as reference guides for teaching specific skills.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Children With Special Needs
- Family & Relationships | Learning Disabilities
- Family & Relationships | Parenting - General
Dewey: 649.152
LCCN: 2003065492
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 7.02" W x 10.02" L (1.42 lbs) 359 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
- Topical - Mentally Challenged
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:

Parents are their children's first and most influential teachers. That's an important job--and this popular, highly respected guidebook makes it much easier. A trusted resource for thousands of families, this lively book gives parents of children from age 3 through young adulthood proven strategies for teaching children the life skills they'll need to live as independently as possible. Parents will start with a reader-friendly overview of the basics of teaching and then go deeper with a step-by-step guide to teaching seven different types of skills: get-ready, self-help, toilet training, play, self-care, home-care, and information gathering skills. In this fourth edition, they'll also find helpful updates and additions, such as

  • an expanded section on managing behavior problems, including guidance on identifying the problems, examining behavior, initiating a behavior management program, and encouraging alternative behaviors
  • a chapter on technology that reflects recent advances and shows how to benefit from using email, instant messaging, Internet communities, search engines, and software
  • a chapter on strengthening partnerships with other teachers in the child's life during IEP meetings, through classroom volunteer work, and in everyday communication with them

Based on years of work with parents and laced with humor, helpful illustrations, and vignettes, this is a must-have resource for families and all professionals who work with them.
 
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