Authors:Shane R. Jimerson, Matthew K. Burns, Amanda VanDer
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: intervention, assessment, practice, science, handbook, response
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 2007-08-02
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0387490523
ISBN-13: 9780387490526

Education professionals have traditionally relied on a wait-to-fail formula to identify and assist students experiencing academic difficulties. With the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, however, a unique early-identification tool – known as response to intervention (RTI) – now offers professionals the option of implementing a collaborative, problem-solving tool designed to ensure that all students achieve academic success.Until now, practitioners have had access to very few detailed descriptions of RTI methods and the effective role they can p

Author: Terri Blackstock
Publisher: Zondervan
Keywords: novel, intervention
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-09-19
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 031025065X
ISBN-13: 9780310250654

Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction, by staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment---and her interventionist is found dead at the airport---Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all. Barbara and her son set out to find Emily before Detective Kent Harlan arrests her for a crime he is sure she committed. Fearing for Emily’s life, Barbara maintains her daughter’s innocence. But does she really know her anymore? Meanwhile, Kent has questions of his own. His gut tells him that t

Authors:Rachel Brown-Chidsey PhD, Mark W. Steege Phd,
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: intervention, practical, schools, series, guilford, effective, principles, strategies, response, practice
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1593852150
ISBN-13: 9781593852153

Meeting a key need, this is the first comprehensive guide to implementing a schoolwide response to intervention (RTI) program. The book is geared to helping practitioners understand and respond to No Child Left Behind and to the new special education eligibility guidelines outlined in IDEIA 2004. Presented are the theoretical and empirical foundations of the approach and a clear, 10-step model for conducting RTI procedures with students experiencing learning difficulties. Special features include reproducible planning and implementation worksheets and more than two dozen overhead transparency

Authors:Sandra Chafouleas PhD, T. Chris Riley-Tillman PhD,
Publisher: The Guilford Pre
Keywords: intervention, guilford, practical, schools, series, instruction, school, behavioral, assessment, informing, based
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2007-08-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1593854943
ISBN-13: 9781593854942

This indispensable book helps school practitioners go beyond putting a label on student behavior problems--it shows how to use assessment to partner with teachers and students to develop effective solutions. The authors provide a framework for determining the types of behavioral data that are needed in a given situation, selecting appropriate measures, and interpreting and organizing the results. Case examples tie it all together, demonstrating how different assessment strategies can be used to support positive behavior and monitor progress at the level of the individual, the classroom, or the

Authors:Melissa Allen Heath PhD, Dawn Sheen Ed.S.,
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: intervention, practical, guilford, schools, series, assist, personnel, based, crisis, preparing, school
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2005-03-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1593851510
ISBN-13: 9781593851514

When a student is in dire need of emotional support, caring adults in the school can make a difference. This essential resource helps practitioners prepare all school personnel to respond sensitively and effectively to children and adolescents in crisis. Packed with user-friendly features--including over 50 reproducible tools--the book provides crucial guidance for helping students cope with such stressful circumstances as bullying, abuse, parental divorce, chronic illness, depression, loss, and more. The emphasis is on giving teachers and staff basic crisis intervention skills: how to react,

Authors:T. Chris Riley-Tillman PhD, Matthew K. Burns PhD,
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: intervention, guilford, practical, schools, series, response, measuring, interventions, educational, single, case, design, evaluating
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2009-02-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1606231065
ISBN-13: 9781606231067

This user-friendly, practical book is the first guide to single-case design written specifically for practitioners using response-to-intervention (RTI) models in schools. It provides essential skills for analyzing and presenting data to support valid educational decision making. Step-by-step explanations and many illustrative examples render complex concepts accessible and applicable to day-to-day work with elementary and secondary students. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for ease of photocopying, the book includes reproducible graphs and forms. Two hands-on appendices offer clea

Authors:Peg Dawson EdD, Richard Guare Phd,
Publisher: The Guilford Pre
Keywords: practical, intervention, guilford, schools, series, assessment, guide, skills, children, adolescents, executive
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 2003-09-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1572309288
ISBN-13: 9781572309289

In clear, step-by-step detail, this highly practical manual provides a research-based framework for strengthening executive functioning in children and adolescents. The book explains how executive skills develop in children and are used in everyday life--from the self-regulation required for responsible behavior to the planning and initiation abilities needed to complete homework on time. Guidelines are presented for conducting multimodal assessments and using the results to plan environmental modifications, individualized instruction, coaching, and whole-class interventions. Attention is also