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Inclusion: An Essential Guide for the Paraprofessional

Author Peggy A. Hammeken has put together an excellent resource called Inclusion: An Essential Guide for the Paraprofessional, which provides an overview of guidelines, strategies and ideas to implement in the classroom. Hammekens' book offers the following practical suggestions.

  • Supply inclusion students with things-to-do-today lists on a daily basis.
      
  • Help special education students with organizational skills by making them simplified maps of the the school or creating color-coded folders for each subject.
      
  • Interpret oral presentations that are in lecture format by listening to the lecture, simplifying vocabulary words, writing down the goals and objectives of the lesson and discussing them before students begin the assignments.

This guide is available in bookstores now. Look for ISBN 1890455342.