Table Of ContentTeaching STudenTS
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Teaching Students with
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Browder, Diane M.
Teaching students with moderate and severe disabilities / Diane M. Browder and
Fred Spooner.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60623-991-9 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Students with disabilities—Education. 2. Students with disabilities—Life skills guides.
3. Children with disabilities—Education. 4. Teachers of children with disabilities.
5. Special education teachers. I. Spooner, Fred. II. Title.
LC4065.B76 2011
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To our families, for their ongoing encouragement and support
To our research staff, who help generate the ideas
and make them teacher-friendly
and
To the students with severe disabilities and their teachers,
who have taught us what is important
about the authors
Diane M. Browder, PhD, is the Lake and Edward P. Snyder Distinguished Professor of
Special Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has over two
decades of experience conducting research and writing on assessment and instruction
for students with severe developmental disabilities, with a recent focus on teaching read-
ing, math, and science. She received the 2009 Distinguished Researcher Award from the
American Educational Research Association Special Education Special Interest Group
and was the 2009 First Citizens Bank Scholar at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte. She also was recognized by the state of North Carolina for Outstanding Ser-
vice to the Schools. Dr. Browder currently serves as co-principal investigator (with Fred
Spooner) for the Institute of Education Sciences What Works Clearinghouse research-to-
practice guides in intellectual disabilities. She has provided professional development and
consultation to states across the nation and has been an international keynote speaker.
Fred Spooner, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Special Education and Child Devel-
opment at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has over two decades of
experience conducting research and writing on instructional practices for students with
severe developmental disabilities, alternate assessment, and validating evidence- based
practices. He currently serves as co-principal investigator (with Diane M. Browder) for
the Institute of Education Sciences What Works Clearinghouse research-to-practice
guides in intellectual disabilities. Dr. Spooner has held numerous editorial posts, includ-
ing coeditor of TEACHING Exceptional Children and Teacher Education and Special
Education, and is currently coeditor of the Journal of Special Education and associate
editor of Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities.
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Contributing authors
Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell, PhD, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
Joshua Baker, PhD, School of Education, Piedmont College, Athens, Georgia
Bree Jimenez, PhD, Department of Special Education and Child Development, College
of Education, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
Victoria F. Knight, PhD, Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Irene Meier, PhD, Department of Special Services, Fairfax County Public Schools,
Fairfax, Virginia
Candice Meyer, PhD, English, Reading, and Humanities Division, Central Piedmont Community
College, Charlotte, North Carolina
Pamela J. Mims, PhD, Department of Human Development and Learning, College of Education,
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
Sharon Richter, PhD, Department of Language, Reading, and Exceptionalities, Appalachian
State University, Boone, North Carolina
Katherine Trela, PhD, Extended Content Standards, Programs for Exceptional Children,
Charlotte–Mecklenburg Schools, Charlotte, North Carolina
Nicole Uphold, PhD, Department of Special Education, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Shawnee Wakeman, PhD, Department of Special Education and Child Development, College
of Education, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
Tracie-Lynn Zakas, MS, Specialized Grant Liaison, Charlotte–Mecklenburg Schools,
Charlotte, North Carolina
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