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Curriculum Considerations in Inclusive Classrooms

This insightful text focuses on how to promote inclusive education by designing, adapting, and delivering curriculum in general education classrooms.

Creativity and Collaborative Learning: A Practical Guide to Empowering Students and Teachers

This book gives a wealth of research-based teaching strategies, sample lesson plans, illustrative case studies and instructional materials are provided to help educators meet their students' varying educational needs.

A literature review of Transition Education Outcomes: The role of the family and occupational therapist in the transition education process

This study is a literature review concerning outcomes of school to community and work transition of adolescents with disabilities, and whether these outcomes lead to a positive and valued role for the individual.

Bridges from School to Working Life for Handicapped Youth: The View from Australia

From an Australian perspective, this monograph addresses a number of strategies which should enhance the opportunities of young people with disabilities for a more satisfying and productive adult life. Chapter One discusses the philosophy and goals which should underpin the program designed for the transition period.

Dreaming for different futures

This is a talk given by the sister of a young man with a disability. She talks about her dreams for him and also what they have both given each other throughout their lives.

Deconstructing SRV

It is often argued that Social Role Valorisation (SRV) is a highly guarded theory, and because healthy debate can only make something stronger, this article is a critique of an SRV lecture series the author attended (although he purports to deconstruct the entire theory).

Letter to the editor

This is a reply to Bleasdale's critique of an SRV lecture series (File No. 10518). Armstrong has some interesting counter arguments to Bleasdale's assertions that SRV does not call for society to change but rather that people with intellectual disabilities should take on the values of the dominant culture.

Deinstitutionalisation: seven central lessons of the past decade

Lord writes that too often 'deinstitutionalisation' has simply meant 'dumping', 'abandonment', 'cost saving' or nothing more than the creation of smaller 'community institutions' in which people are still congregated and which still completely dominate and control individuals' lives.

Full of purpose and meaning

This is a really great short story about the move of a man from a psychiatric hospital to a home of his own close to his family.

Supporting families to participate in the Right Future

This is a description of a Canadian government program called the Right Future - a project that has committed funds for numerous people (for the rest of their lives) to move from a large institution back to their family communities (or otherwise, if their families have chosen not to be...