Students at Risk: Solutions to Classroom Challenges

Teachers and schools today both face a broad spectrum of complex challenges, responsibilities, and frustrations -- from helping students with special needs to recognizing different learning styles and working with students to improve their day-to-day performance. This unique guide suggests a repertoire of recommended practices that are at the core of effective, responsive teaching. The book offers concrete strategies to better identify and work with children with learning and developmental disabilities, behavioural disorders, visual and hearing impairments, and forms of low incidence disabilities such as autism and Asperger's Syndrome. This inspiring book provides a smooth blend of the specific and the general that will give you the right tools to make your classroom a comfortable and safe place for all children, regardless of their abilities.