Prelims
Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities
ISBN: 978-1-78743-090-7, eISBN: 978-1-78743-089-1
ISSN: 0270-4013
Publication date: 5 June 2018
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(2018), "Prelims", Obiakor, F.E. and Bakken, J.P. (Ed.) Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities (Advances in Special Education, Vol. 33), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-401320180000033013
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Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities
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Advances in Special Education
Series Editor: Festus E. Obiakor and Jeffrey P. Bakken
Recent Volumes:
Volume 24: | Learning Disabilities: Identification, Assessment, and Instruction of Students with LD – Edited by Jeffrey P. Bakken, Festus E. Obiakor and Anthony F. Rotatori |
Volume 25: | Learning Disabilities: Practice Concerns and Students with LD – Edited by Jeffrey P. Bakken, Festus E. Obiakor and Anthony F. Rotatori |
Volume 26: | Gifted Education: Current Perspectives and Issues-Edited by Jeffrey P. Bakken, Festus E. Obiakor, and Anthony F. Rotatori |
Volume 27: | Special Education International Perspectives: Biopsychosocial, Cultural and Disability Aspects – Edited by Anthony F. Rotatori, Jeffrey P. Bakken, Sandra Burkhardt, Festus E. Obiakor and Umesh Sharma |
Volume 28: | Special Education International Perspectives: Practices Across the Globe – Edited by Anthony F. Rotatori, Jeffrey P. Bakken, Sandra Burkhardt, Festus E. Obiakor and Umesh Sharma |
Volume 29: | The Broad Autism Phenotype – Edited by Julie A. Deisinger and Anthony F. Rotatori |
Volume 30a: | Interdisciplinary Connections to Special Education: Important Aspects to Consider – Edited by Jeffrey P. Bakken and Festus E. Obiakor |
Volume 30b: | Interdisciplinary Connections to Special Education: Key Related Professionals Involved – Edited by Festus E. Obiakor and Jeffrey P. Bakken |
Volume 31: | General and Special Education in an Age of Change: Impact on Students with Disabilities – Edited by Jeffrey P. Bakken and Festus E. Obiakor |
Volume 32: | General and Special Education in an Age of Change: Roles of Professionals Involved – Edited by Jeffrey P. Bakken and Festus E. Obiakor |
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Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities
Edited By
Festus E. Obiakor
Sunny Educational Consulting, Shorewood, Wisconsin, Usa
Jeffrey P. Bakken
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, Usa
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Contents
About the Editors | vii |
List of Contributors | ix |
Preface | xi |
Viewpoints on Intervention for Learners with Disabilities: An Introduction | |
Jeffrey P. Bakken and Festus E. Obiakor | 1 |
Chapter 1 Viewpoint on Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities: Instruction Matters | |
Margaret P. Weiss | 13 |
Chapter 2 Promoting Positive Freedoms for Secondary Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: The Role of Instruction | |
Frederick J. Brigham, John William McKenna, Carlos E. Lavin, Michele M. Brigham and Lindsay Zurawski | 31 |
Chapter 3 Interventions for Students with Intellectual Disabilities | |
Emily C. Bouck and Erin Bone | 55 |
Chapter 4 Interventions for Students Who Are Deaf/Hard of Hearing | |
Christy M. Borders, Stacey Jones Bock, Karla Giese, Stephanie Gardiner-Walsh and Kristi M. Probst | 75 |
Chapter 5 Interventions for Students with Visual Impairments | |
Stacy M. Kelly | 107 |
Chapter 6 Interventions for Students with Autism | |
Shannon Stuart | 127 |
Chapter 7 Viewpoints on Interventions for Students with Extensive and Pervasive Support Needs | |
Jennifer Kurth, Alison Zagona, Amanda Miller and Michael Wehmeyer | 143 |
Chapter 8 Interventions for Learners with Traumatic Brain Injuries | |
Angela I. Canto and Danielle M. Eftaxas | 169 |
Chapter 9 An Overview of Classroom-based Speech-Language Pathology Services | |
Rita L. Bailey | 183 |
Chapter 10 Interventions for Students with Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairments | |
Sunday O. Obi | 197 |
Chapter 11 Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities Beyond Tradition | |
Festus E. Obiakor, Jeffrey P. Bakken and Jessica Graves | 221 |
Index | 235 |
About the Editors
Festus E. Obiakor, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Manager, Sunny Educational Consulting, Shorewood, Wisconsin. He has served as Department Head and Professor, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia and The City College of New York, New York. A Teacher, Scholar, Leader, and Consultant, he has served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at a variety of universities. He is the author of more than 150 publications, including books, articles, and commentaries; and he has presented papers at many national and international conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of reputable nationally and internationally refereed journals, including Multicultural Learning and Teaching in which he serves as executive editor. Dr. Obiakor is a leader who has been involved in many landmark scholarly works in the fields of general and special education, with particular focus on African American and other culturally and linguistically diverse learners and he continues to prescribe multidimensional methods of assessment, teaching, and intervention for these individuals. Based on this premise, Dr. Obiakor created the comprehensive support model, an intervention model that values the collaborative, consultative, and cooperative energies of students, families, teachers/service providers, communities, and government agencies.
Dr. Jeffrey P. Bakken, Ph.D., is the Associate Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Bradley University. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, and Graduate Degrees in the area of Special Education-Learning Disabilities from Purdue University. His areas of interest include the following: response to intervention, collaboration, teacher effectiveness, assessment, learning strategies, technology, smart classrooms, smart universities, and smart pedagogy. He has written more than 170 academic publications that include books, chapters, journal articles, proceedings at international conferences, audio tapes, encyclopedia articles, and has made 235 presentations at the international/national and regional/state conferences.
List of Contributors
Rita L. Bailey | Honors College, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA |
Jeffrey P. Bakken | Graduate School, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA |
Erin Bone | Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
Christy M. Borders | Department of Special Education, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA |
Stacey Jones Bock | Department of Special Education, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA |
Emily C. Bouck | Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA |
Fredrick J. Brigham | Department of Special Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA |
Michele M. Brigham | Freedom High School, Loudoun County Public Schools, South Riding, Virginia, USA |
Angela I. Canto | College of Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA |
Danielle M. Eftaxas | College of Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA |
Stephanie Gardiner-Walsh | Department of Special Education, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA |
Karla Giese | Department of Special Education, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA |
Jessica Graves | School of Education, College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, Georgia, USA |
Stacy M. Kelly | Department of Special and Early Education, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA |
Jennifer Kurth | Department of Special Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA |
Carlos E. Lavin | Department of Special Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA |
John William McKenna | College of Education, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA |
Amanda Miller | Department of Special Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA |
Sunday O. Obi | Department of Special Education, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky, USA |
Festus E. Obiakor | Sunny Educational Consulting, Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA |
Kristi M. Probst | National Center on Deaf-Blindness, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon, USA |
Shannon Stuart | Special Education Department, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA |
Michael Wehmeyer | Department of Special Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA |
Margaret P. Weiss | Division of Special Education and disAbility Research, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA |
Alison Zagona | Department of Special Education, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
Lindsay Zurawski | Department of Special Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA |
Preface
As a construct, “intervention” indicates mediation, remediation, or proactive action that can be intentional, unintentional, systemic, or individualistic. And as a topic, intervention has changed over the years from its first introduction in clinical psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatry to affect human behavior. Today, it has become a popular topic in general and special education arenas due to advocacy, legislation, research, and new pedagogical trends. In addition, this topic can be somewhat controversial depending on the disability that a child, student, or youth might have; and it can depend on the professional dispositions of those involved in the process of working with learners with disabilities. To a large extent, in general and special education, interventions involve change-oriented pragmatic efforts to solve or ameliorate problems confronting children, youth, and adults who may or may not have exceptionalities. Despite the importance of these efforts, there is no comprehensive voluminous resource that effectively addresses differential viewpoints on interventions in the field of special education. It is in this spirit that we produce this book volume titled, Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities.
It is a common fact that there continues to be difficulty in keeping up with everything in education and also be updated in all areas related to special education. This is the more reason why we are very excited about Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities. First, this book is edited and written by leaders in the field of special education and its related fields. In other words, it is an excellent resource for regular educators, special educators, administrators, mental health clinicians, school counselors, diagnosticians, psychotherapists, and psychologists, to mention a few. And second, this book contains viewpoints and perspectives that are evidence-based, research supported, and practitioner friendly. A logical extension is that it addresses how interventions have changed over time and how they have impacted direct services for learners with disabilities.
Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities is a book for this day and age. As indicated, we are impressed with the scholarship and clarity of our book’s contributors. In Introduction, we introduce readers to viewpoints on interventions for learners with disabilities; in Chapter 1, Weiss focuses on interventions for students with learning disabilities; in Chapter 2, Brigham et al. focus on interventions for students with emotional and behavioral disorders; in Chapter 3, Bouck and Bone focus interventions for students with intellectual disabilities; in Chapter 4, Borders et al. focus on interventions for students who are deaf and hard of hearing; in Chapter 5, Kelly focuses on interventions for students with visual impairments; in Chapter 6, Stuart focuses on interventions for students with autism; in Chapter 7, Kurth et al. focus on interventions for students with severe disabilities; in Chapter 8, Canto and Eftaxas focus on interventions for students with traumatic brain injury; in Chapter 9, Bailey focuses on interventions for students with speech or language impairments; in Chapter 10, Obi focuses on interventions for students with physical disabilities and other health impairments; and in Chapter 11, in collaboration with Graves, we go beyond tradition to discuss interventions for students with disabilities.
Finally, books of this nature will not materialize without professional collaboration, consultation, and cooperation. We thank our contributors for their dedication to excellence. This book will be an excellent resource to general and special education practitioners, educator preparation professionals, and undergraduate and graduate students. In the end, we wholeheartedly thank our wives and children for their crucial support during this worthy venture.
Festus E. Obiakor
Jeffrey P. Bakken
Series Editors
- Prelims
- Viewpoints on Intervention for Learners with Disabilities: An Introduction
- Chapter 1 Viewpoint on Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities: Instruction Matters
- Chapter 2 Promoting Positive Freedoms for Secondary Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: The Role of Instruction
- Chapter 3 Interventions for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
- Chapter 4 Interventions for Students Who Are Deaf/Hard of Hearing
- Chapter 5 Interventions for Students with Visual Impairments
- Chapter 6 Interventions for Students with Autism
- Chapter 7 Viewpoints on Interventions for Students with Extensive and Pervasive Support Needs
- Chapter 8 Interventions for Learners with Traumatic Brain Injuries
- Chapter 9 An Overview of Classroom-based Speech-Language Pathology Services
- Chapter 10 Interventions for Students with Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairments
- Chapter 11 Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities Beyond Tradition
- Index