Teaching Students With Language and Communication Disabilities - Hardcover

Kuder, S. Jay

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9780205531059: Teaching Students With Language and Communication Disabilities

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ISBN 10: 0205531059 ISBN 13: 9780205531059

Publisher: Pearson, 2007

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More than ever, it is essential that all students have language and communication skills that will help them be successful in school and in the community. This text provides teachers and other education professionals with essential information about language development and disorders that will enable them to help children with disabilities in language and communication. The first section of this text presents updated research on language and language development with a focus on application to school-age students. A new chapter describes the link between language and literacy development. The second section analyzes the language difficulties associated with specific disability types, including a new chapter on the language difficulties of students with physical disabilities. Each chapter includes a link between language and literacy for that population. The third section of the text focuses on contempo

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Teaching Students with Language and Communication Disabilities, 3/E

S. Jay Kuder, Rowan College

ISBN-10: 0205531059

The third edition of Teaching Students with Language and Communication Disabilities addresses the need for ALL students to have language and communication skills. Author Jay Kuder provides teachers and other education professionals with essential information about language development and disorders.

Divided into three sections, the text examines research with a focus on application to school-age students, and then analyzes the language difficulties associated with specific disability types. The third section focuses on contemporary assessment and instructional strategies.

Kuder emphasizes research-based instructional techniques and discusses several new methods, including technology-based approaches.

Check out what’s new to the Third Edition

NEW chapter on language difficulties of students with physical disabilities.
NEW chapter on Language and Literacy.
Expanded coverage of the link between language and literacy in each chapter on disabilities.
Expanded coverage of research on early childhood language.
Fully revised and updated research.
NEW case studies and activities.

About the Author:

S. Jay Kuder is a professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary and Inclusive Education at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ., where he coordinates the graduate programs in special education and autism. Dr. Kuder’s research interests are in the development of effective practices for enhancing the language and literacy skills of children with disabilities. His recent research has focused on the use of technology to enhance communication and social skills in students with autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Kuder holds a masters degree in special education from Temple University and a doctoral degree in applied psycholinguistics from Boston University. He is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Council for Exceptional Children, and a fellow of the American Association on Intellectual Disabilities, and has served on the New Jersey Special Education advisory board.

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