Handbook of Educational Psychology and Students with Special Needs

<p><em>Handbook of Educational Psychology and Students with Special Needs</em> provides educational and psychological researchers practitioners policy-makers and graduate students with critical expertise on the factors and processes relevant to learning for students with special needs. This includes students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder other executive function difficulties behavior and emotional disorders autism spectrum disorder intellectual disabilities learning disabilities dyslexia language and communication difficulties physical and sensory disabilities and more. With the bulk of educational psychology focused on mainstream or typically developing learners relatively little educational psychology theory research measurement or practice has attended to students with special needs. As clearly demonstrated in this book the factors and processes studied within educational psychology—motivation and engagement cognition and neuroscience social-emotional development instruction home and school environments and more—are vital to all learners especially those at risk or disabled.</p><p>Integrating guidance from the DSM-5 by the American Psychiatric Association and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) by the World Health Organization this book synthesizes and builds on existing interdisciplinary research to establish a comprehensive case for effective psycho-educational theory research and practice that address learners with special needs. Twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field are structured into three parts on diverse special needs categories perspectives from major educational psychology theories and constructs relevant to special needs learning development and knowledge building.</p>