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Media Review: Books: Assessment in Special Education: The Education Evaluation

Teaching Infants and Preschoolers with Handicaps is a book of special interest to teachers and teacher trainers in the area of early childhood handicapped. It would be useful for training teachers to work with handicapped infants and young children and would also meet the needs of those already working in that capacity who are looking for some new methods and organizational strategies. Designing a text for teachers of young handicapped children is a complex task, as these individuals are usually expected to teach children with all types of handicapping conditions, to be proficient in working with children from birth to school age. Some texts have dealt with the wide range of methodological information to be included by examining teaching methods from a categorical perspective. Bailey and Wolery, however, have chosen a different organizational pattern. Rather than focusing on the handicapping condition, the authors have chosen to emphasize the types of skills most children need to acquire and the teaching methods most likely to help them learn. The book includes chapters on historical background, determining instructional targets, implementing direct instruction, teaching imitation, designing preschool environments, facilitating engagement within environments, working with families, play and social interaction, reducing inappropriate behaviors, and acquisition of sensorimotor, cognitive, communication, motor, and self-help skills. These