Understanding Physical, Health, and Multiple Disabilities
by Sherwood Best, Kathryn Heller, Paul Alberto, Paula Forney, Morton Schwartzman
This comprehensive educational resource helps readers understand a wide range of physical, health, and multiple disabilities in school environments. It combines foundational concepts with consistent disability-focused coverage and practical applications, supporting informed teaching, effective collaboration, safer classrooms, and attention to students’ physical, educational, communication, and daily living needs.
About This Book
This book presents accessible, in-depth coverage of physical, health, and multiple disabilities commonly encountered in school settings.
It introduces foundational topics including disability understanding, effective teaming, learning and behavioral characteristics, motor development, and interventions.
Disability-focused chapters address description, characteristics, detection, treatment, course, and educational implications, including physical, sensory, communication, learning, daily living, and psychosocial needs.
Knowledge-to-practice chapters connect the material to assistive technology, classroom adaptations, individualized healthcare plans, universal precautions, monitoring students, and coping with degenerative illnesses.
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