handicapped children

Provides suggestions and materials for meeting the special needs of learning-disabled students, featuring tools for diagnosis and assessment, strategies for classroom management, solutions to common problems, guidelines for intervention, and techniques for helping older learning-disabled students.

Through prose and poetry, Nia Wyn recounts her struggles to find help for her son, who was diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy shortly after birth, and shares the triumphs she felt at every small breakthrough and triumph.

Photographs and simple text capture two weeks in the life of a handicapped boy learning to live successfully in a world made for people without handicaps.

Describes four special students with learning problems who do not fit into regular classrooms.

Photographs and text describe brother-sister relationships in which one sibling has a physical disability.

Presents an overview of laws governing the rights of students with disabilities, offers advice to teachers on how to create a positive learning environment for exceptional students, and provides descriptions of a range of disabilities and health disorders, each with teaching strategies.

Uses photographs and separate text for adult and child to explore the relationship between two children, one of whom is handicapped.

An eleven-year-old girl finds ways to handle the unique challenges presented by her thirteen-year-old mentally disabled brother by looking for his good qualities and taking the rest in stride.

Provides information about the special education system and how it works, explaining how parents can obtain appropriate instruction and therapy for their special-needs children, looking at the types of services that are available, and identifying the rights protected under federal law.