Educating learners with Down syndrome : research, theory and practice with children and adolescents

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A lifespan approach to learning in the context of quality of life / Roy I. Brown -- Cognitive strengths and weaknesses for informing educational practice / Donna Couzens and Monica Cuskelly -- Mastery motivation in children with Down syndrome: promoting and sustaining interest in learning / Linda Gilmore and Monica Cuskelly -- Enhancing learning for children with Down syndrome / Emily A. Jones, Nicole Neil, and Kathleen Feeley -- Mathematics profile of the learner with Down syndrome / Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke -- Developing early number concepts for children with Down syndrome / Barbara Clarke and Rhonda Faragher -- Research on number knowledge of students with Down syndrome: an experience from Indonesia / Rumiati and Robert J. Wright -- Learning mathematics in the secondary school: possibilities for students with Down syndrome / Rhonda Faragher -- Developing the reading skills of children with Down syndrome / Kelly Burgoyne, Becky Baxter, and Sue Buckley -- Challenging literate invisibility: continuing literacy education for young adults and adults with Down syndrome / Karen B. Moni and Anne Jobling -- Down syndrome: a story from a developing county / Rumiati -- Where we are, where we would like to be, and (perhaps) how we get there / Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke..

"For individuals with Down syndrome, the extent of the effect of intellectual disability depends largely on the degree of provision of appropriate support and intervention. In [this book], editors Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke have brought together a number of expert contributors, whose chapters review recent findings in the field of DS education, highlight promising practices and identify areas for future research... importantly incorporates the voices of individuals with Down syndrome, whose personal narratives add significance to the research mission of the text... Aimed at researchers, teacher educators, higher degree students and policy makers, this book is the first of its kind to provide a compendium of research on educating learners with Down syndrome." - BOOK JACKET