Curriculum and Assessment for Students With Moderate and Severe Disabilities

This timely volume provides a complete guide to designing and implementing personalized curricula for students with moderate and severe disabilities. The author delineates a comprehensive assessment model that provides a framework for pinpointing educational priorities, planning instructions in specific areas, and evaluating student progress. Emphasizing the values of self-determination, family-centered planning, multicultural awareness, and educational accountability, the strategies presented are teacher-friendly and data-based. Case studies in every chapter illustrate the educational needs and accomplishments of students with a variety of disabilities, including autism, mental retardation, severe behaviour disorders, and multiple disabilities. Further enhancing the practical utility of the volume are sample assessment notes, reports, and instruction plans; inventories of key skills in different domains; and descriptions of commercially available instructional resources.Browder, Diane M. is the author of 'Curriculum and Assessment for Students With Moderate and Severe Disabilities', published 2001 under ISBN 9781572306158 and ISBN 1572306157.