Mental Retardation and Intellectual Disabilities: Teaching Students Using Innovative and Research-Based Strategies

Filled with tested and hands-on strategies, this is an essential guide to working with students with intellectual disabilities. Increasingly in special education, there is a call for evidence-based practices to improve outcomes of students with mental retardation. Teaching takes research in the five general areas of assessment, instruction, classroom management, social and communication skills, and self-determination and translates it into simple strategies that work in every classroom.

A must-have companion for all special education students and teachers!

Also available:

Mental Retardation: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports - ISBN 0940898810
Workbook: Mental Retardation (10th Edition) - ISBN 0940898829

Since 1876, the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) has been providing worldwide leadership in the field of disabilities. AAIDD is the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization of professionals and citizens concerned about intellectual and developmental disabilities.

AAIDD publishes books for professionals in developmental disability in the areas of:

-Supported living
-Definition of intellectual disability
-Disability funding
-Positive behavior support
-Palliative care
-Quality of life
-Health