For Faculty: Textbook Companion Web Sites

Brookes is developing Course Companion Web Sites to accompany new textbooks. The Course Companions are free to students and faculty (and anyone else who’d like to use them for personal study!).

Sites are currently available for these books:

An Activity-Based Approach to Early Intervention, Third Edition
by Kristie Pretti-Frontczak & Diane Bricker

A classic text for preservice professionals and a user-friendly guide for in-service practitioners, this book offers a systematic method for assessing young children and helping them reach their goals.

Alternative Approaches to Assessing Young Children
by Angela Losardo & Angela Notari-Syverson

This book provides a detailed description, a summary of advantages and limitations, specific guidelines for implementation, and samples of data collection forms for 6 alternative assessment methods.

Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Third Edition
by David R. Beukelman & Pat Mirenda

This trusted and definitive textbook explains AAC assessment and offers intervention techniques that are appropriate throughout the life span for people with congenital or acquired communication disorders.

Blended Practices for Teaching Young Children in Inclusive Settings
by Jennifer Grisham-Brown, Mary Louise Hemmeter, & Kristie Pretti-Frontczak

With the explicit guidance in this essential text, future teachers will blend best practices from special and general education to help all their students achieve in inclusive classrooms.

Children with Disabilities, Fifth Edition
edited by Mark L. Batshaw

This comprehensive textbook gives students in any discipline extensive coverage of the developmental, clinical, educational, family, and intervention issues they’ll face in their work with children with disabilities.

Developing Cross-Cultural Competence, Third Edition
edited by Eleanor W. Lynch & Marci J. Hanson

The third edition of this bestselling text brings together detailed, accurate information on working with families and children with disabilities from specific cultural, ethnic, and language groups.

Educating Children with Multiple Disabilities, Fourth Edition
edited by Fred P. Orelove, Dick Sobsey, & Rosanne Silberman

Now in its fourth edition, this highly respected, bestselling textbook gives undergraduate and graduate students up-to-the-minute research and strategies for educating children with severe and multiple disabilities.

Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills, Second Edition
edited by Judith R. Birsh

The most popular text on multisensory instruction, this comprehensive resource shows educators how to help students with and without learning disabilities develop key skills such as phonological awareness, spelling, fluency, and comprehension.