Educating Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder : A Model for High Quality Coaching

A clinical guide that delivers a practical discussion of high quality coaching as an emerging best practice for supporting special educators of students with autism spectrum disorders including teachers, paraprofessionals, and school-based service providers, such as speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists.

This book offers a unique coaching model with a practical approach for special education teachers and service providers. Educators face the challenge of accommodating students with complex neurodevelopmental disorders. By empowering special education personnel to participate as coaches, educators can go beyond simple accommodation and actively provide a less restrictive setting, dynamically assess skills, and build an effective coaching network to engage students throughout the entire school day. Throughout the book, readers will find vignettes that illustrate the reality of special education. Each vignette is concluded with evidence-based support that describes the positive results of the strategies implemented. This book introduces coaching methods that will guide teachers and instructional staff to create and maintain a "solutions focused" coaching community.Provided in this text are vignettes that illustrate the reality of special education. Additionally, approaches for addressing the real word needs of students with ASD are provided, along with evidence-based support that describes the positive results of the strategies described.This text also introduces coaching methods that will guide teachers and instructional staff to create and maintain a "solutions-focused" coaching community. This book serves as a clinical guide and delivers a practical discussion of high-quality coaching as an emerging best practice for supporting special educators (teachers and paraprofessionals) as well as school-based service providers (speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists). It is a valuable primary text for special education teachers in training, a resource for professional development personnel, and a tool for researchers and graduate students in education and teaching programs.