Nature and Issues of Severe Disabilities

Catalog description

Current research and practices of characteristics, learning, and behavioral supports for students with low-incidence disabilities accessing the adapted curriculum. Includes students with autism, moderate/severe intellectual disability, traumatic brain injury, severe/multiple disabilities, and deaf-blindness. Contains issues including: age span issues, emotional/behavioral adjustment, social and language development, cognitive functioning, medical aspects, and cultural/ethnic and socioeconomic factors.