Collaborative Teams For Students With Severe Disabilities: Integrating Therapy And Educational Services; Author: Rainforth, Beverly; Joint Author: York-Barr, Jennifer; Paperback

Author: Rainforth, Beverly; Joint Author: York-Barr, Jennifer
Edition #2; Paperback
384 pages
Published: October 1997
Brookes Publishing Co
ISBN: 1557662916

With updates and revisions to reflect changes in practices, legislation, terminology, and research, this popular reference is more useful than ever. Equally viable as a training text and asa professional development tool, the second edition offers extensive guidance on assessment, curriculum development, and instruction for students with severe disabilities. Detailed case studies illustrate how to integrate therapy into education programming by creating a working team framework in daily collaborative efforts. Easy-to-follow processes for identifying team members, scheduling, developing IEPs, co-teaching, conducting team meetings, assuming multiple roles, addressing issues as a group, making decisions by consensus, resolving professional differences, and communicating with parentOffers in-depth guidance on assessment, curriculum development, and instructi for students with severe disabilities, centering on a team approach. Provide core terminology and a rationale for collaborative teamwork; shows how occupational, physical, and speech-language services can become part of th