Teaching Exceptional Children Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Special Education

Teaching Exceptional Children is the ideal textbook for introductory graduate and undergraduate courses on early childhood special education and teaching in inclusive classrooms. Bayat’s clear and accessible writing, the text’s visually appealing design, and the focused pedagogy included in each chapter help make it possible for students and instructors to cover a significant amount of material. This powerful text identifies specific behavioral characteristics and presents theoretical information grounded in neuroscience and child development research for a wide range of disabilities. Chapters provide research-based best practices for effectively working with children with various disabilities in inclusive classrooms. This third edition has been fully updated with recent research and includes new sections on Universal Design for Learning, adaptations, technology, and common challenges in inclusive early childhood classrooms. This book is also accompanied by a robust collection of online resources for instructors and students, providing full support, including a Companion Website featuring an Instructor's Manual with additional ideas for assignments and projects, web and video links with reflection questions, a test bank, and lecture slides; and an eBook+ offering interactive links to videos, glossary terms, and more!

Part I: Foundations of Early Childhood Inclusive and Special Education1. Education of Children with Disabilities: An Introduction to the Field2. Inclusive Education: Current Issues and Methods of Intervention in Early Childhood3. Atypical Development4. Families are the Most Important of All5. Identification and Assessment6. Developing IFSP and IEPPart II: Learning and Behavior Characteristics of Disabilities, and Best Practices7. Children on the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)8. Children Who Have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder9. Children Who Need Mental Health Support10. Children with Communication Disorders11. Children With Intellectual Disability12. Children with Hearing Loss and Visual Impairment13. Children Who Have Motor Issues and Other Health ImpairmentsPart III: Kindergarten Through Third Grade14. Education of Children with Disabilities in Primary School Years – Grades K-3

Mojdeh Bayat is Professor of Child Development and Early Education at DePaul University, USA. She has a BA in Law and Society from The American University, an MA in Early Childhood Special Education from Northeastern Illinois University, and a PhD in Child Development from Erikson Institute in Chicago.