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Welcoming Children with Special Needs: Empowering Christian Special Education Through Purpose, Policies, and Procedures

Author : Quentin Kinnison PhD

Publisher : WestBow Press

Page : 151 pages

File Size : 42,60 MB

Release : 2014-10-06

Category : Education

ISBN : 149085259X

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The Christian school community has a unique impetus for impacting the lives of students with special needs. Doctors Lane and Kinnison present this groundbreaking guide for administrators to lay foundational components in order to develop a successful and sustainable special needs program in a Christian school. Kinnison outlines Gods purpose for bringing children with special needs into the world. Lane provides step-by-step guidelines for fostering an inclusive and sustainable school environment. This book seeks to support Christian school educators, parents of children with special needs, and disability ministries servants in their quests to transform an under-equipped, private educational institution into the indefatigable arms of Jesus that welcome. This book provides guidance to individuals who have and those who intend to develop a special needs program. Special education professors and researchers will find this text vital for working with pre-service Christian educators who wish to serve children with special needs. Christian schoolsespecially those that may have attempted and failed, or continue to struggle with developing their programswill find this text an oasis for frustrated spirits. The past applications of these principles have achieved remarkable success. Now, with this text, leaders and innovators have a succinct, well-ordered guide for expediting their successes.



Transforming Pastoral Leadership

Author : Quentin P. Kinnison

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 203 pages

File Size : 20,41 MB

Release : 2016-05-20

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1625647034

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For many congregations, change creates discomfort. Pastoral leaders are often expected to be experts who manage and control realities beyond their expertise, experience, and ability. That expectation, a product of modern approaches to leadership, views the pastor as responsible for maintaining the status quo. Transforming Pastoral Leadership responds to this context by challenging readers to rediscover key biblical themes around the shepherding metaphor as well as key theological themes steeped in our historical faith narratives. Readers are challenged to consider the origins of our dominant leadership practices and to reconsider how Christ's preeminence as the leader of his church requires us to reconstruct leadership practices that are faithful to his preeminence. To assist congregations, Transforming Pastoral Leadership suggests two processes that might help congregations discern God's missional promptings as they move forward into God's future and experience conflict as opportunities for transformation.



Welcoming Children with Special Needs

Author : Sally Patton

Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 39,77 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9781558964792

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Vulnerable Communion

Author : Thomas E. Reynolds

Publisher : Brazos Press

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 47,31 MB

Release : 2008-04

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1587431777

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A theologian and father of a child with disabilities reveals how disability highlights our common brokenness and need for grace.



Leading a Special Needs Ministry

Author : Amy Fenton Lee

Publisher : B&H Publishing Group

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 20,23 MB

Release : 2016-09

Category : Education

ISBN : 1433647125

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What do you need to lead a special needs ministry? Leading a Special Needs Ministry is a practical how-to guide for the family ministry team working to welcome one or 100 children with special needs.



Current Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education

Author : David F. Bateman

Publisher : Corwin Press

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 39,15 MB

Release : 2019-04-25

Category : Education

ISBN : 1544302029

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Building and supporting effective special education programs School leaders and special educators are expected to be experts on all levels and types of special education law and services, types of disability, and aspects of academic and functional programming. With the increasing demands of the job and the ever-changing legal and educational climate, many administrators and teachers are overwhelmed, and few feel adequately prepared to meet the demands. Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education helps you build and support timely, legally sound, and effective special education services and programs. Readers will find: the most up-to-date information on how to effectively implement special education programs, processes, and procedures examination of a wide variety of issues, from developing and implementing individual education programs (IEPs) that confer a free appropriate public education, Section 504, least restrictive environment (LRE), and successfully collaborating with parents, to issues regarding accountability, staffing, bullying, early childhood special education, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), evidence-based practices, transition, discipline, and the school-to-prison pipeline extensive references and resources Written as a comprehensive reference for all who work with students with disabilities, this book offers the most up-to-date research and field-tested strategies from a range of experts that special education professionals can confidently and immediately apply.



Encyclopedia of School Health

Author : David C. Wiley

Publisher : SAGE Publications

Page : 745 pages

File Size : 36,55 MB

Release : 2013-08-23

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 1452276242

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Children spend more time at school than anywhere else except home; thus, schools can have a major effect on children′s health by providing a healthy physical environment, serving meals and snacks built around sound nutritional guidelines, and teaching about health, as well as modeling and promoting healthy behaviors. School health services programs involve not only school nurses and focus not only on nursing practice, standards, and performance issues; they also include services and classes to teach students the information and skills they need to become health-literate, to maintain and improve their health, to prevent disease, and to reduce risky behaviors impacting health. School nurses, teachers, administrators, health coordinators, guidance counselors and social workers all join with parents in safeguarding and promoting the health and well-being of school-aged children as a basic foundation for academic success. The Encyclopedia of School Health offers quick access to health and wellness information most relevant to children in America′s K-12 school setting. You′ll find valuable guidance on developmental stages, acute and chronic illnesses, special education, nutrition, crisis response, prevention, and more.



The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Dyslexia

Author : Abigail Marshall

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 480 pages

File Size : 39,48 MB

Release : 2013-07-18

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 1440564973

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Help your child succeed in the classroom--and in life! As a parent of a child with dyslexia you may wonder what you should expect as your child goes through life. How can you help your child deal with school and succeed? It's true, there are challenges for children with dyslexia, but when identified early, they can be overcome successfully. Abigail Marshall, manager of dyslexia.com, shows you how to: Identify the early symptoms of dyslexia. Work with teachers to create an Individualized Education Program (IEP). Reduce homework struggles. Find the best treatment program. Help your child develop skills with the use of assistive technology. Plan for college and career. The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Dyslexia, 2nd Edition is your first step in facing the challenges of dyslexia with a positive attitude.



G.U.I.D.E. Differentiated Instruction for Christian Educators

Author : Beth Ackerman

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 49,90 MB

Release : 2012-04

Category : Education

ISBN : 9781935986263

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1 Corinthians 9:21 states, "I have become all things to all people." That is what we have to do as teachers.... Teachers are challenged every day to educate students with vastly different learning capabilities, preferences, and interests. How does a teacher cater to all these unique learning needs while achieving school administrative goals and helping students pass standardized tests? The answer is differentiated instruction: adapting teaching methods to each individual student. GUIDE to Differentiated Instruction for Christian Educators addresses how the Great Commission and teaching are unified through differentiated instruction. Teachers need to reach all students, including the diverse and struggling learners. Beth Ackerman uses her experiences as a grade-school teacher, principal, professor, and associate dean to encourage teachers and provide strategies for implementing differentiated instruction in their classroom.



Disability and the Gospel

Author : Michael S. Beates

Publisher : Crossway

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 11,9 MB

Release : 2012-07-31

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1433530481

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Michael Beates's concern with disability issues began nearly 30 years ago when his eldest child was born with multiple profound disabilities. Now, as more families like Michael's are affected by a growing number of difficulties ranging from down syndrome to autism to food allergies, the need for church programs and personal paradigm shifts is greater than ever. Working through key Bible passages on brokenness and disability while answering hard questions, Michael offers here helpful principles for believers and their churches. He shows us how to embrace our own brokenness and then to embrace those who are more physically and visibly broken, bringing hope and vision to those of us who need it most.