Collaborative Teams for Students with Severe Disabilities: Integrating Therapy and Educational Services

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 as a 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 parents are included. This resource helps both students and professionals update their knowledge, refine their skills, and increase their effectiveness as team members.