This course is designed for K-12 teachers and support staff who are interested in discovering strategies that help students affected ...

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Dividing time, resources, and efforts in order to teach students of varied readiness and skill levels and diverse backgrounds is ...

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Behavior disorders, emotionally disturbed, or socially maladjusted are terms often used to describe children with challenging behaviors who are troubled ...

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Because autism is one of the most common disorders of childhood, it has broad implications not only for the autistic ...

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Self-esteem of gifted girls begins to drop at the beginning of adolescence and reaches its lowest point at the end ...

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This course explains what is known about giftedness from biological and psychological perspectives. Curriculum development and myths about giftedness are ...

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During very early development, male sex hormones act so that male brains are organized differently from female brains. Thus boys ...

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An increasing number of special education students are receiving instruction in the general education classroom, k-12th grades. This course offers ...

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Understanding the ins and outs of special education law can seem like a daunting and sometimes overwhelming feat. This is ...

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This course, drawing on neuropsychological research and educational experience, gives an understanding of the brain's learning processes. Before today's teachers ...

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Because eating disorders among adolescents and young women are flourishing, we must take into account the historical and cultural changes ...

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Both food and exercise relieve tension and give us a lift, but with weight gain at epidemic proportions, exercise should ...

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Based on up-to-date research, Educational Procedures for the Mentally Handicapped offers positive ways to help exceptional children reach their full ...

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This course is designed to familiarize you with the psychology and special problems of children who have health, intellectual, academic, ...

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Children and adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) can intrigue and confound us- often simultaneously! This course will help you achieve a ...

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Course Description
This course is designed to help teachers identify types of learning problems that characterize students with mild disabilities ...

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Response to intervention. This is RTI and RTI². These enlightening transformers are hot topics in education and are a much ...

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With increasing demands on what our students need to know, today's teachers have to be ready to provide literacy instruction ...

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Between 5 and 17% of the United States population is estimated to have dyslexia. It is the most common learning ...

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This course provides knowledge of possible causes of special needs, an understanding of brain systems that have gone awry, diagnostic ...

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Most teachers are now encountering students who are not native-born, are not native English speakers, and are thus learning English ...

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