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Special Education

Special Education

POWER OF 2, THE (THIRD EDITION)

The third edition of the Power of 2 preserves the fundamental concepts, the classic six classroom approaches-that still have validity after two decades of scrutiny-while at the same time updating the examples that reflect co-teaching's evolution, such as, an examination of services provided by teachers of students who are English language learners.

Updates to the third edition include in-depth understanding of how to provide specialized education services by utilizing the skills of both general education and special education (or other specialized) personnel in the general education classroom. Featured teachers discuss how they use data to specially design instruction, plus we focus attention on co-teacher's roles in the provision of specially designed instruction for students with disabilities. Featured teachers also discuss in detail how they use data to group students, design instruction, and monitor progress.

The Power of 2 will assist educators-early career teachers as well as those with many years of experience-to collaborate and share their knowledge and skills in order to ensure students maximize their potential.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2016 / 120 minutes

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CAREER Q&A: PROFESSIONAL ADVICE AND INSIGHT - SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER

What is it like to be a special education teacher? In this Career Q&A video interview, Caitlin Gosnell talks about her career path, what she does on the job, and the keys to success as a special ed teacher. She also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2015 / 22 minutes

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KIDS ON SPEED?

Kids on Speed? is a hybrid of observational documentary, factual intervention and social experiment. Working together for the first time, a team of experts, led by dynamic Clinical Psychologist Professor Mark Dadds, put 4 families with 5 children suspected of having ADHD, through a cutting edge evidence based 9-week intervention program.

The stakes are high. The families are at the end of their tethers having been everywhere for help to no avail and the experts are putting their reputations on the line, as they seek a new treatment gold standard for one of the most stigmatised, misunderstood and misdiagnosed disorders affecting children today Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Ep 1
The 9-week intervention program begins. But the 3 experts dedicate 2 weeks just to assessing the 5 kids suspected of having ADHD. Making a correct diagnosis is critical - many of these kids have been misdiagnosed in the past.

Ep 2
As treatment begins, the families grapple tough decisions over whether or not to use medication suggested by the experts. Professor Mark Dadds is under pressure to get the parents to commit to his interventions. And he has just 6 weeks left to achieve change.

Ep 3
Two families are seeing benefits from the experts combined advice. The other two families are still facing uphill battles. But as the intervention program enters its final stage, uncomfortable truths emerge to challenge all the families as well as the experts.

DVD / 2014 / 171 minutes

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STUDENTS WITH AUTISM

The autism spectrum covers a complex range of conditions. Understanding the characteristics of autistic behaviour and its neurological causes is essential for effective interaction and communication with people with autism.

This program takes a first-hand look at a highly effective school-based program for autistic students and presents perspectives from parents, teachers and other professionals.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2014 / (Middle Secondary - Professional) / 26 minutes

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AUTISM: WARMING TO ITS COLD EMBRACE

Warming to the cold embrace of an autism diagnosis is often very challenging for families.

As one parent points out in this informative half-hour program: "When we got the diagnosis, autism was like this 900-pound word that sat on my chest and sucked the air out."

Award-winning independent filmmaker Robert Parish knows that sinking feeling. When his son Jack was diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 1996, Parish sank into a deep emotional hole. He dug his way out by pointing the lens of his video camera in Jack's suddenly disorganized direction. The footage Parish collected ultimately became the critically acclaimed film COME BACK JACK - the first nationally broadcast documentary that shattered many of the myths associated with an autism diagnosis.

AUTISM. WARMING TO ITS COLD EMBRACE features the perspectives of many of the passionate autism advocates Parish has met along his personal ASD journey, including Dr. Patricia Manning-Courtney and Jennifer Brown of The Kelly O'Leary Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Stephen Shore of Adelphi University, and other parents of children with autism spectrum disorders. Their points of view offer warmth, understanding, and inspiration to anyone who has a child or adult with autism in their lives.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2013 / 30 minutes

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ADHD RUSH HOUR

The issues surrounding ADHD are fiercely debated. Who decides when rambunctious behavior has become a psychiatric concern? Do the benefits of Ritalin outweigh its risks? Is ADHD even a true disorder, or just another way for pharmaceutical companies to make money? This program speaks with students diagnosed with ADHD and to nearly a dozen medical and academic experts about its identification and treatment. Pediatrics professor William B. Carey believes that ADHD is being over-diagnosed, and Dr. William Pelham describes a successful treatment plan based on behavior modification-even as young people with ADHD praise the positive results of taking their meds. Other topics include genetic factors, medication risks, teachers as diagnosticians, and the centuries-long history of medicalizing hyperactivity.

DVD / 2012 / 80 minutes

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ORIGINAL MINDS

Directed by Tom Weidlinger

Inspirational film that shows a way to bring out the individual talents of five teenagers normally classified as learning disabled.

Wounded by the stigma of being in "special ed" the five teenage protagonists of ORIGINAL MINDS struggle to articulate how their brains work.

Kerrigan is a deep thinker, often seeing connections between disparate ideas and concepts, but when it comes to telling you what you've just said he hasn't a clue.

When Nee Nee writes her fingers have a hard time keeping up with her thoughts.

People often get annoyed with Nattie because she doesn't know when to stop teasing and kidding around.

Marshall spends a lot of time in the bathroom, where his parents can't bug him about homework. He says he wants to "turn over a new leaf" but he's lost nine of his last fifteen math assignments.

Members of Deandre's family tell him he is not college material. He's determined to prove them wrong.

Parents, teachers, friends, therapists, and coaches all weigh in, sometimes with conflicting views, but it's the kids who become the experts in this film, as they work intensively with the filmmaker to tell their stories and discover that they are smarter than they thought. Their narratives reveal the unique approach to learning that each must discern and claim as his or her own if they are to succeed in the world. ORIGINAL MINDS eschews the confusing thicket of labels for learning disorders and reveals universal truths about how we all acquire and process information.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2011 / (Grades 9-12, College, Adult) / 57 minutes

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RTI & DI - THE DYNAMIC DUO

By Lynn Heintzman and Helene Hanson

Response to Intervention (RTI) and Differentiated Instruction (DI) are two powerful approaches for addressing the needs of all learners. They share many common elements, perhaps the most significant of which is their student-centered focus and utilization of on-going assessments to inform decision-making and facilitate good instruction. RTI, as a multi-tiered framework, uses a problem-solving process to match the needs of students to research-based interventions. DI is a way to plan/deliver curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. It is through DI that RTI can be successfully implemented. Indeed, RTI and TI are truly the "dynamic duo!"

This DVD will help you learn how to effectively differentiate instruction in TIER 1 (core curriculum instruction) and TIER 2 (targeted instruction) stages of RTI. A range of strategies are demonstrated, such as the use of flexible grouping, support staff, continuous progress monitoring and data collection.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2009 / 37 minutes

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SENSORY ISSUES IN LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

By Carol Stock Kranowitz

See the nation's leading special needs author in your very own classroom or living room!

In this DVD of her most recent presentation, SPD expert Carol Kranowitz offers you sensory strategies and activities that are applauded not only in the United States but around the world. Carol not only provides the research behind her findings, but she also shares her 25 years of experience with her audience. For every kind of sensory need, she has a story that demonstrates how a child with this need might behave, and stories about what worked and what didn't. She will arm you with effective techniques that work and activities that are sure to be a hit with your child or student, no matter what his or her sensory needs are.

Carol discusses:

The science behind the senses

The many types of SPD and how they can affect the daily lives of children

Possible co-existing problems (e.g., visual, auditory, co-existing disorders, etc.)

Available treatment and therapy options

Carol's lively approach to sensory challenges makes this DVD informative and entertaining. Her dynamic presentation will have you out of your seat in no time!

2 DVDs / 2009 / 3 hours

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SUCCEEDING THROUGH AUTISM

By Sean Barron

In this compelling DVD, Sean Barron tells the story of how he went from being a child with low functioning autism to the successful man, journalist, and boyfriend he is today.

When Sean was young, he felt very alone and isolated from the rest of the world. But as the years passed, he learned many social "unwritten rules" that have helped him to become more connected and in tune with society, resulting in renewed relationships with his family, a mutually rewarding relationship with his girlfriend, and a job that is intellectually stimulating. As Sean says in his recent book Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships, "I am the happiest I have ever been."

Sean shares his unwritten rules and much more in this warm, candid presentation. As a special bonus, we even hear from Sean's girlfriend Barbara Protopapa, a young woman with autism, who shares some insight into her life and her relationship with Sean.

DVD / 2009 / 90 minutes

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TWO WORLDS - ONE PLANET

By Gail Levin, Ann Reinking, and O. Robin Sweet

The incidence of Asperger syndrome and other forms of autism in the United States appear to be increasing dramatically. This powerful, eye-opening documentary brings the issue out of the shadows, stressing that young people with these developmental disabilities can learn and grow, if their individual needs, styles, and abilities are respected. Two Worlds — One Planet takes an upbeat look at students attending Gateway Academy, a private K-12 day school specializing in youth with Asperger Syndrome, high-functioning Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder. The film offers a rare opportunity to enter the world of children with Asperger’s and Autism, and to see it through their own eyes and the eyes of their families. Their parents show remarkable and sometimes painful candor in revealing autism’s impact on the entire family. These students perceive the world differently, and they learn differently as well. The school offers them an academic curriculum that is challenging and structured, and nurturing in its approach to fostering growth, responsibility and independence. Students, faculty, and families work collaboratively to help students discover and develop their individual gifts and strengths.

DVD / 2008 / 62 minutes

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BOY IN THE WORLD

By Jessica Jennings and Penny Kadmon

For many three and four-year-olds, learning how to live in the world begins in a preschool classroom. Children with developmental disabilities are no exception. This intimate documentary follows four-year-old Ronen, a young boy with Down syndrome, who attends a fully inclusive early childhood education center. Through his story we learn what it really means for a child to be included: the triumphs, the struggles, and the positive effects on everyone involved: classmates, parents, teachers, and community. Through interviews with teachers, administrators, parents and disability professionals, the film explores the inclusion process in depth, and concretely demonstrates that inclusive classrooms can benefit all children, both those with special needs and their typical peers. This is a rich, evocative exploration of how inclusion works, from the nuts and bolts of a successful inclusive classroom to the benefits and challenges of educational practices that help all children to learn — and to find their place in the world.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / 44 minutes

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ADHD IN THE CLASSROOM: STRATEGIES FOR TEACHERS

By Russell A. Barkley

From leading authority Dr. Russell Barkley, ADHD in the Classroom is designed to help teachers create a learning environment that is responsive to the needs of all students, including those with ADHD. Scenes from an actual classroom illustrate problems that teachers typically encounter and bring effective solutions to life. Viewers see firsthand how to incorporate social skills into the curriculum and how to implement such behavior management methods as color charts and signs, point system, token economy, and turtle-control technique. The video also features helpful graphics, interviews with teachers and other education experts, and informative commentary from Dr. Barkley.

DVD (With Manual) / 2006 / (Parents, teachers and other education professionals, graduate students, and clinicians new to ADHD) / 36 minutes

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PROBLEM SOLVING IN RTI: A COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING KIT FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INTERVENTION TEAMS

This complete professional development training kit offers a full overview of an easy-to-implement problem solving process that elementary school teams can use to meet the needs of struggling students and reduce inappropriate and disproportionate referrals for special education evaluation. National professional development trainer Renae Azziz Ed.S., NCSP provides strategies based on current research and step-by-step instructions to teach teams to:

Use a 5 step problem solving process to:

Identify and prioritize student concerns

Develop effective intervention plans

Utilize data to determine responsiveness

Build collaborative interactions and relationships between educators, parents, and students. Increase communication and coordination among staff in special education and general education. Develop and implement focused response to intervention team training with research-based interventions to meet the unique needs of students at the first signs of difficulty. Systematically use data to determine student needs and level of improvement, thereby reducing inappropriate and disproportionate referrals for special education evaluation.

5 DVDs (With Workbook, CD)

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PROBLEM SOLVING IN RTI: A COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING KIT FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL INTERVENTION TEAMS

This complete professional development training kit, offers a full overview of an easy-to-implement problem solving process that secondary school teams can use to meet the needs of struggling students and reduce inappropriate and disproportionate referrals for special education evaluation. National professional development trainer Renae Azziz Ed.S., NCSP provides strategies based on current research and step-by-step instructions to teach teams to:

Use a 5 step problem solving process to:

Identify and prioritize student concerns

Develop effective intervention plans

Utilize data to determine responsiveness

Structure a consultation model that works effectively at the secondary level. Increase communication and coordination among staff in special education and general education. Develop and implement focused response to intervention team training , research-based interventions to meet the unique needs of students at the first signs of difficulty. Systematically use data to determine student needs and level of improvement, thereby reducing inappropriate and disproportionate referrals for special education evaluation.

5 DVDs (With Workbook, CD)

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TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO INCLUSION

This series provides an Inclusion Workshop overview. It introduces inclusion to parents, educators, and communities. The presentation creates a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. It demonstrates ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve that goal. Together We're Better is highly motivating and offers a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering an inclusive environment.

Part I Introduction to Inclusion
The Four H's - Dr. Marsha Forest (11 minutes)
The Philosophy of Inclusion: ABC's and Two Roads: The Road to Exclusion and
the Road to Inclusion - Dr. Jack Pearpoint (23 minutes)
Thoughts on Disabilities, Differences and Giftedness - Ms. Judith Snow (25 minutes)

DVD / 59 minutes

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TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER PART 2 STRATEGIES

This series provides an Inclusion Workshop overview. It introduces inclusion to parents, educators, and communities. The presentation creates a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. It demonstrates ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve that goal. Together We're Better is highly motivating and offers a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering an inclusive environment.

Part II Strategies
Curriculum of Caring (2 minutes)
Quaker Meeting Circle (12 minutes)
Qualitative Evaluation Procedure (3 minutes)
The Six Hats (5 minutes)
Circle of Friends (15 minutes)

DVD / 37 minutes

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TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER PART 3 MAPS & PATHS

This series provides an Inclusion Workshop overview. It introduces inclusion to parents, educators, and communities. The presentation creates a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. It demonstrates ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve that goal. Together We're Better is highly motivating and offers a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering an inclusive environment.

Part III MAPS & PATHS
MAPS - Making Action Plans: A Long-Term Visionary Process and a Plan to Achieve the Dream and Avoid the Nightmare (24 minutes) PATH - Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope: A Problem Solving Strategy, a Visionary Process, and a Plan to Get Where You Want to Be in One Year (27 minutes)

DVD / 51 minutes

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BEST OF THE INCLUSION SERIES

This program contains excerpts from 4 programs which are designed for short presentations.

Jackie: A 12 minute segment from Choices.

Heather's Story: Program Highlights: A 17 minute presentation from Step By Step: Heather's Story.

Kindergarten: An 8 minute segment from Issues for Educators.

Larissa: A 8 minute segment from Families, Friends, Futures.

DVD / 17 minutes

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CHOICES

To provide an encouraging introduction to the inclusion process by profiling four students successfully included into pre-school, elementary school, and junior college.

This program has four chapters. They focus on Cami, age 3, in pre-school; Erin, age 5, in kindergarten; Jackie, age 9, in the third grade; and Joan, age 19, in junior college. Choices tells the stories of these students and their families, teachers, classmates, schools, and communities, and enables viewers to observe each student's successful inclusion into general education classrooms.

DVD / 30 minutes

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FAMILIES, FRIENDS, FUTURES

To emphasize the need for inclusion into school and the community so that children with severe, as well as more moderate, disabilities grow up with the relationships and support networks required for independent and fulfilled adulthood.

This program examines how inclusion often begins at school for children of varying ages and with disabilities of varying severity. It is about Betsey, a 12-year-old in the sixth grade, and Larissa, three years old and in a community nursery school. Both girls participate with friends in community activities. The program explores the encouraging effect that the girls' participation has on their families' views of their children's future.

DVD / 23 minutes

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FRIENDSHIP

To discuss issues concerning peeople with disabilities, and their families, and address the basic concept of freindship.

Stories and ideas about friendship, human rights, self-advocacy, and inclusion of all people.

This program highlights Bryce, a 12-year-old child with disabilities, and and his family. The program addresses broader societal issues. With Jack Pearpoint, Marsha Forest, Darryl Thomas, Janet Thomas, Bryce Thomas, and many more.

DVD / 24 minutes

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INCLUSION HIGH

To offer practical information and advice to students, teachers and administrators and to inspire an inclusive vision for people of all kinds.

This Chicago high school celebrates differences in nationality, race, ethnicity, and language, and has simply taken the next natural step - including students with disabilities. Process is everything. Teamwork is essential. Learn from teachers, students, and administrators in this documentary video.

DVD / 18 minutes

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INCLUSION: ISSUES FOR EDUCATORS

To address concerns about inclusive education, nurture faith in the possibility of inclusion, and impart a sense of its great rewards.

This popular video focuses on teachers and administrators. Through interviews with those who provide inclusive opportunities, it addresses the realities of implementation, strategies for effective inclusion, and the necessity of support systems.

DVD / 20 minutes

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RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION: AN EASY TRAINING KIT FOR TEACHERS ON IMPLEMENTING RTI IN THE CLASSROOM

This complete professional development training kit offers a full overview of a response to intervention framework that teachers can use to help all students meet or exceed academic and behavior standards. National professional development trainer Renae Azziz Ed.S., NCSP provides strategies based on current research and step-by-step instructions to help:

Reduce inappropriate referrals to special education

Move teachers away from a wait to fail model of instruction

Rely on assessment data to improve instruction

Develop an overall awareness of the essential components of Response to Intervention

DVD (With Workbook, CD)

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SPECIAL EDUCATION

The simple activities of daily living can be challenging for children with special needs; consequently, making them challenging for the child-care provider, as well. Causes of disabilities will be discussed, along with a review of the characteristics, capabilities and expectations for children with varying special needs— mental retardation, physical or neurological impairments, sensor defects, physical disabilities, communication limitations, learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders.

DVD / 20 minutes

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STEP BY STEP: HEATHER'S STORY

To document one child's real-life inclusion into her neighborhood school over the course of two school years.

This documentary begins when Heather, a little girl with Down syndrome, is eight years old and in "special ed." It follows her through two years and into the fourth grade in "regular school."

Seeing is believing and this two-year, longitudinal study enables viewers to watch Heather blossom. It also provides the opportunity to watch her teachers, principal, family, and classmates, work together and grow along with her.

DVD / 65 minutes

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TOGETHER WE'RE BETTER

To provide highlights of a weeklong Inclusion Workshop conducted by noted inclusion specialists Dr. Marsha Forest, Dr. Jack Pearpoint, and Ms. Judith Snow.

This set offers ready access to an acclaimed presentation on creating inclusive communities. Together We're Better introduces the possibilities of inclusion to parents, educators, and communities generally. It provides a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. Drs. Forest and Pearpoint and Ms.. Snow demonstrate ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve the goal. They offer audiences a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering inclusive environments.

1: Intro to Inclusion (59 min.), introduces the philosophy of inclusion and the idea of "giftedness."

2: Strategies (37 min.), provides strategies for enhancing the inclusiveness of schools.

3: MAPS & PATHS (51 min.), demonstrates on stage the MAPS and PATH processes.

3 DVDs / 157 minutes

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