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From Tutor Scripts to Talking Sticks: 100 Ways to Differentiate Instruction in K - 12 Classrooms

This one-of-a-kind book proves that designing differentiated instruction can be simple and fun! Packed with creative adaptation ideas like fidget bags, doodle notes, and choice boards, this book gives K-12 educators 100 teacher-designed, kid-tested strategies they can use to meet the needs of all students in inclusive classrooms.

Everyone in the classroom will benefit from this timely, ultra-practical guidebook the go-to resource for any teacher who has ever had a doubt that differentiated instruction can be simple and fun!

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"The Autism Checklist": A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers

The newest edition to the Jossey-Bass Checklist series, this useful, accessible guide offers teachers and parents a better understanding of children on the autism spectrum and provides them with the kinds of support and intervention they need. Written in an easy-to-read checklist format, the book is filled with up-to-date research, practical advice, and helpful resources on a wide range of topics.

The book covers five areas: basic information on autism, checklists for parents, checklists for teachers, effective support strategies, and helpful resources.

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You're Going to Love this Kid!: Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom
A guide to understanding students with autism and including them fully in the classroom. Includes specific ideas for enhancing literacy; planning challenging, multidimensional lessons; supporting student behavior; connecting, communicating, and collaborating; fostering friendships; and adapting the physical environment.

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"A Land We Can Share": Teaching Literacy to Students with Autism

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This guidebook brings cutting-edge literacy concepts to special educators who are already familiar with autism but may not have specific training in teaching reading skills and is an essential "literacy meets autism" primer for general educators and reading specialists. For all readers, the book underscores the ways in which literacy can help every learner achieve a more fulfilling, rich, and inclusive academic life.

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"Just Give Him the Whale!": 15 Ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise, and Strenghts to Support Students with Autism

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When learners with autism have deep, consuming fascinations—trains, triangles, basketballs, whales—teachers often wonder what to do. This concise, highly practical guidebook gives educators across grade levels a powerful new way to think about students' "obsessions": as positive teaching tools that calm, motivate, and improve learning.

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"You're Welcome": 30 Innovative Ideas for the Inclusive Classroom

Three handbooks; 30 Innovative Ideas for the Inclusive Classroom (with co-author Dr. Patrick Schwarz) is a collection of three micro-books that can be used as a reference for any general or special educator (or therapist, administrator, or parent). The ideas apply to teachers in any grade level who need to cover the curriclum but also want to personalize the educational experience for all students in their classrooms and make learning enjoyable. We include suggestions for positive behavior supports, effective collaboration, and differentiating instruction.



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"Joyful Learning": Active and Collaborative Learning in Inclusive Classrooms

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Offering all students opportunities for successful learning experiences, Joyful Learning: Active and Collaborative Learning in Inclusive Classrooms is ideal for K–12 inclusive classrooms and learners with a wide range of abilities, including cultural or linguistic differences. The authors present techniques for using differentiation, active learning, and personalized instruction that enable teachers to use sound teaching practices and engage students in discussion, debate, creative thinking, questioning, teamwork, and collaborative learning.

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"Access to Acedemics for ALL Students"

A text calling to teachers in diverse, inclusive schools to move beyond facilitating social participation in classroom activities and to consider ways to intellectually engage ALL learners. The book draws on emerging work linking critical theory with disability issues; work being done in curriculum studies around issues of social justice teaching, authentic instruction, service learning, and critical pedagogy; and the movement in the field of special education away from a deficit-driven model of education to an orientation that values students' strengths and gifts.

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Paula Kluth- Selected Publications

Kluth, P., & Chandler-Olcott, K. (2008).  “A land we can share”: Teaching literacy to students with autism. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.   

Kluth, P. & Schwarz, P. (2008).  “Just give him the whale”: 20 Ways to use fascinations, areas of expertise, and strengths to support students with autism. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.

Udvari-Solner, A., & Kluth, P. (2008). Joyful learning: Active and collaborative learning in the inclusive classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Kluth P., Biklen, D. English-Sand, P., & Smukler, D. (2007). Going away to school: Stories from families who move to find inclusive schools.  The Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 18 (1).

Schwarz, P. & Kluth, P. (2007). You’re Welcome: 30 Innovative Ideas for the Inclusive Classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Publishing.

Kasa-Hendrickson, C., & Kluth, P.  (2005). “We have to start with inclusion and work it out as we go”: Purposeful inclusion for non-verbal students with autism.  International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2(1), 2-14.
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Kluth, P. (2003).  “You’re going to love this kid”: Teaching students with autism in the inclusive classroom.  Baltimore: Brookes.

Kluth, P., Straut, D., & Biklen, D. (Eds). (2003).  Access to academics for all students: Critical approaches to inclusive curriculum, instruction, and policy.  Mahweh, NJ: Erlbaum.

Kluth, P. & Darmody-Latham, J. (2003).  Beyond sight words: Literacy opportunities for students with autism.  The Reading Teacher, 56, 532-534.        

Kluth, P., & Straut, D.  (2003).  Do as we say and as we do: Co-teaching in the university classroom.  The Journal of Teacher Education, 54, 228-240.

Kluth, P., & Colleary, K.  (2002).  Talking about inclusion like it's for everyone: Sexual diversity and the inclusive schooling movement.  In R. Kissen (Ed.), Getting ready for Benjamin: Preparing teachers for sexual diversity.  Maryland: Rowland and Littlefield.

Kluth, P., Thousand, J., & Nevin, A. (2002).  Liberatory theory in the classroom.  In R. Villa, J. Thousand, & A. Nevin  (Eds.),  Creativity and collaborative learning.  Baltimore: Brookes.

Kluth, P., Villa, R., & Thousand, J.  (2001, December/January).  “Our school doesn’t offer inclusion” and other legal blunders.  Educational Leadership, 59, 24-27.
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Kluth, P., & Straut, D.  (2001, September).  Standards for diverse learners.  Educational Leadership, 59, 43-46.
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Rubin, S., Biklen, D., Hendrickson, C., Kluth, P., Cardinal, D.N., & Broderick, A.  (2001). Independence, participation, and the meaning of intellectual ability.  Disability & Society, 16, 415-429.

Kluth, P.  (2000).  Community-referenced instruction and the inclusive classroom.  Remedial and Special Education, 21, 19-26.