Educating learners with Down syndrome : research, theory and practice with children and adolescents / edited by Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke.

For individuals with Down syndrome, the extent of the effect of intellectual disability depends largely on the degree of provision of appropriate support and intervention. In Educating Learners with Down Syndrome, editors Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke have brought together a number of expert co...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Faragher, Rhonda, Clarke, Barbara (Barbara Anne)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • A lifespan approach to learning in the context of quality of life / Roy I. Brown
  • Cognitive strengths and weaknesses for informing educational practice / Donna Couzens and Monica Cuskelly
  • Mastery motivation in children with Down syndrome: promoting and sustaining interest in learning / Linda Gilmore and Monica Cuskelly
  • Enhancing learning for children with Down syndrome / Emily A. Jones, Nicole Neil, and Kathleen M. Feeley
  • Mathematics profile of the learner with Down syndrome / Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke
  • Developing early number concepts for children with Down syndrome / Barbara Clarke and Rhonda Faragher
  • Research on number knowledge of students with Down syndrome: an experience from Indonesia / Rumiati and Robert J. Wright
  • Learning mathematics in the secondary school: possibilities for students with Down syndrome / Rhonda Faragher
  • Developing the reading skills of children with Down syndrome / Kelly Burgoyne, Becky Baxter, and Sue Buckley
  • Challenging literate invisibility: continuing literacy education for young adults and adults with Down syndrome / Karen B. Moni and Anne Jobling
  • Down syndrome: a story from a developing county / Rumiati
  • Where we are, where we would like to be, and (perhaps) how we get there / Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke.