Catalog of Mental Retardation Books
--Page 1--Next PageMental Retardation: An Introduction to Intellectual Disability (7th Edition)
 | Author: Mary Beirne-Smith ISBN:0131181890 Publication Date:2005-08-05 List Price:$128.00 Lowest New Price:$90.00 Rank:72653 Average Rating:3.5 Out of 5 Number of Reviews:2 | Description: This market-leading book provides educators with the most current information about the many facets of mental retardation and intellectual disabilities from a life-cycle perspective. The authors provide comprehensive yet concise coverage of all relevant content and also show relationships between theory and practice, decode the terminology used in the field, and relate these terms and concepts to the reality of the classroom, the world of work, and the life of the community. |
Mental Retardation: Historical Perspectives, Current Practices, and Future Directions
 | Author: Ronald L. Taylor ISBN:0205359027 Publication Date:2004-08-21 List Price:$121.33 Lowest New Price:$88.99 Rank:261946 | Description: Gives an overview of mental retardation for those planning to work with students with MR in a school setting. MR, mental retardation, moderate disabilities, developmental delay. appropriate for undergraduate and graduate courses in Introduction to Mental Retardation and Theories and Characteristics of Mental Retardation taught in departments of Special Education. |
Mental Retardation
| Author: James S. Payne ISBN:0675080274 Publication Date:1981-06 List Price:$29.95 Lowest New Price:$29.95 Rank:4904860 | Description: (Merrill) Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham. Introductory textbook features key words and learning objectives. Concentrates on basic concepts; biology, psychology, and sociology of mental retardation; intervention issues; and family considerations. Illustrated in two-tone. Previous edition: c1998. |
Mental Retardation: A Community Integration Approach
 | Author: Lynda Crane ISBN:0534339239 Publication Date:2001-08-29 List Price:$164.95 Lowest New Price:$52.40 Rank:634458 | Description: Using the goal of community integration as a coherent, unifying conceptual focus, this book presents the applied research and information that students can use as they work with the mentally retarded. Additionally, this is a book with "heart," built on the premise that the coverage is not designed simply to appeal to students' intellect, but to their emotional and relational experience, as well. |
Teaching Students With Mental Retardation: Providing Access to the General Curriculum
 | Author: Deanna J. Sands ISBN:1557665281 Publication Date:2001-10 List Price:$44.95 Lowest New Price:$31.47 Rank:577056 Average Rating:3.0 Out of 5 Number of Reviews:1 | Description: Every day, teachers and education professionals struggle with a crucial classroom goal: ensuring that students with mental retardation or other support needs have access to the general curriculum. They'll find the guidance, research, and practical strategies they need in this advanced, reader-friendly textbook, which will prepare preservice educators for the classroom and sharpen the skills of professionals in the field. Readers will get guidance on developing a person-centered approach to IEPs, including decisions about placement, appropriate accommodations and modifications, and alternate assessment a detailed review of four instruction types - teacher-mediated, peer-mediated, technology-mediated, and activity-anchored - and suggestions on matching instruction to individual learner needs and goals age-specific curriculum modifications and supports, including verbal devices like analogies and role-playing; visual devices like films and charts; self-evaluation; assistive technology; and positive behavioral support an in-depth discussion on using "empowerment evaluation" to measure the efficacy of programs and promote student progress and self-determination steps that support full participation in the community outside the classroom, including aspects like social relationships, job preparation, household management, and sexuality Blending research-based theory with step-by-step processes and planning forms, this practical text is the key to building curricula that include students with mental retardation and meet their individual needs. |
Helping Adults with Mental Retardation Grieve a Death Loss
 | Author: Charlene Luchterhand ISBN:1560327685 Publication Date:1998-05-01 List Price:$27.50 Lowest New Price:$24.74 Rank:635927 Average Rating:5.0 Out of 5 Number of Reviews:1 | Description: This guide for professionals to aid adults with mental retardation in dealing with grief first covers background information on the universal grief process, then addresses grief issues specific to the mentally retarded adult population, and next provides practical guidelines for interacting and providing support (over 100 specific ideas). It features original artwork of adults with mental retardation working through the grief process. |
Teaching Students with Mental Retardation: A Life Goal Curriculum Planning Approach
 | Author: Glen E. Thomas ISBN:0024202401 Publication Date:1996-02-15 List Price:$113.33 Lowest New Price:$87.12 Rank:430599 Average Rating:5.0 Out of 5 Number of Reviews:1 | Description: This book emphasizes and identifies (1) a prioritized life goal curriculum planning approach to identify the functional skills and concepts needed by a student with mental retardation or severe disabilities to become as successful as possible in adult life, and (2) a diagnostic/prescriptive teaching approach to assess each studentÕs abilities and progress toward those individual life goals. |
Manual of Diagnosis and Professional Practice in Mental Retardation
 | Author: ISBN:1557983410 Publication Date:1996-07 List Price:$24.95 Lowest New Price:$18.95 Rank:636200 Average Rating:5.0 Out of 5 Number of Reviews:1 | Description: New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Albany. Reference on mental retardation, for psychologists and students. Discusses epidemiology, resources, guidelines for classification, and more. 74 contributors, 73 U.S. |
Loving Rachel: A Family's Journey from Grief
 | Author: Jane Bernstein ISBN:0252074831 Publication Date:2007-10-01 List Price:$16.95 Lowest New Price:$10.99 Rank:327571 Average Rating:4.0 Out of 5 Number of Reviews:4 | Description: In 1983, Jane Bernstein had everything she ever wanted: a healthy four-year-old daughter, Charlotte; a happy marriage; a highly praised first novel; and a brand new baby, Rachel. But by the time Rachel was six weeks old, a neuro-ophthalmologist told Jane and her husband that their baby was blind. Although there was some hope that Rachel might gain partial vision as she grew, her condition was one that often resulted in seizure disorders and intellectual impairment. So began a series of medical and emotional setbacks that were to plague Rachel and her parents and strain their marriage to the breaking point. Spanning the first four years of Rachel’s life, Loving Rachel is a heartbreaking chronicle of a marriage and a compelling story of parental love told with searing honesty and surprising humor. |
Guidebook on Helping Persons with Mental Retardation Mourn (Death, Value, and Meaning)
 | Author: Jeffrey Kauffman ISBN:0895033852 Publication Date:2008-07-01 List Price:$21.95 Lowest New Price:$17.95 Rank:607491 | Description: The grief language of persons with mental retardation discloses intellectual capacities that are no less powerful, complex, subtle, disturbing, deep, and spiritual than those revealed in the more discursive and dialectical grief language of persons without mental retardation. This book will assist readers in recognizing and understanding the behavioral language of grief among persons with mental retardation and in developing intervention plans to support them through their grief, in both the short and long term. The book contributes to an awareness of the significance of loss in the life experience of persons with mental retardation. Experiencing loss may be a very powerful vulnerability in their mental or psychological life, and dealing with this loss is a basic element in psychological health. There has been an enormous hole in the death and dying literature and in the mental retardation literature on the mourning behavior and needs of persons with mental retardation. This book fills that hole, and lays a foundation for grief support services, establishes standards of practice and care, and is an educational primer about the loss and mourning needs of persons with mental retardation. The book is directed to grief counselors and therapists, other mental health workers who work with persons with mental retardation, agencies that support persons with mental retardation, and advocates and family of persons with mental retardation. It includes carefully detailed guidelines for support, therapeutic intervention, family issues regarding a dying caregiver, and agency interventions and program development. INTENDED AUDIENCE Grief counselors and therapists; professionals, families, and advocates in the field of mental retardation; among professionals: mental retardation service provider agencies and staff, mental health professional who provide services to persons with mental retardation, grief counselors and therapists, and academics interested in the mourning issues of persons with mental retardation. |
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