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9th Edition

Commonsense Methods for Students with Special Needs and Disabilities

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Peter Westwood Australian author

  • Commonsense Methods for Students with Special Needs and Disabilities

242 pages
2025
ISBN: 9781032984384

This fully revised ninth edition continues to offer teachers practical advice on new evidence-based approaches for teaching and managing students with a wide range of abilities, disabilities, and difficulties.

Based on topical international research from the field, this new edition provides practical advice for teachers and tutors to enable them to adapt evidence-based methods when working in inclusive settings with students with special needs, including gifted and talented students.

Key features of this 9th edition:

  • Throughout the text, approaches to teaching and classroom management have been clearly described.
  • New methods, programmes, and interventions are reviewed, and there is increased coverage of digital technology and e-learning.
  • Teachers will also find support and guidance for working with students with learning difficulties in literacy and numeracy, teaching students with physical, sensory and intellectual disability, fostering students’ autonomy, social skills interventions, approaches to autism spectrum disorders, and much more.
  • All new information in every chapter is fully supported with reference to the most recent writing and research.

This continues to be an invaluable resource for practising and trainee teachers, tutors, teaching assistants, and other education professionals responsible for supporting students in inclusive schools.

Table of Contents

  1. Meeting ‘special needs’ in the era of inclusion
  2. Students with intellectual disability
  3. Students with autism spectrum disorder
  4. Physical disabilities and health issues
  5. Students with sensory impairments
  6. Gifted and talented students
  7. Self-management and autonomy
  8. Managing behaviour
  9. Social skills and peer group acceptance
  10. Intervention for reading difficulties
  11. Problems with writing
  12. Difficulties with spelling
  13. Numeracy and basic mathematical skills
  14. A taxonomy of teaching methods
  15. Differentiating the curriculum and adapting instruction

"Peter Westwood is highly respected world-wide for producing easy to read, common-sense methods which are practical to implement…he presents great advice that is easily applied to classroom practice. (review of 8th edition)"
- Dr Bruce Allen Knight, Professor of Education, Central Queensland University, Australia