Neurodiversity in the Classroom: Strength-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Succeed in School and Life

This book is a great "introduction" to the neurodiversity movement and reviews the positive niche construction, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and a strengths based approach. I recommended this book to my assistant principal since my district is doing work on using UDL and they are now using pieces of this text for our staff professional development.

It really opens your mind to ways of thinking of students in the classroom, especially those labeled special education. I highly recommend it. I purchased it on kindle and found that format to be easy to read.

Excellent book for any classroom teacher. I will implement many of the ideas for "good niche" construction in my class as soon as school starts.

This is a very positive book that changed my perspective on children with disabilities. It thinks outside the box, looking for the positive qualities in all students. I feel I will be much better able to teach a diverse classroom after reading this.My two criticisms are career aspirations and the chapter on children with emotional and behavior disabilities. I don't believe the purpose of schools is to prepare children for the work force, at least not until the end of high school. Instead, schools should expose children to everything (age appropriate) available to allow them to find a child's passion. For my second problem, I felt the strength based section for the emotional & behavior chapter was underdeveloped. The author does admit there isn't enough research, but I was still offended all he could muster was that they're creative. Despite speaking on mental illness being shoved under the rug he makes a weak argument of the benefits. It would have been better to break the group down into specific chapter than lumping them together, surely causing a single broad generalization.

Really interesting concise but thorough review of how to think about teaching diverse people at any age.

It's really good for a textbook. It's not too dry but the structure of it gets kind of old because they have to repeat quite a bit in the first few chapters. After that it gets better.

This book is readable for the average person. Not too many big words.

This book is very helpful in conveying that diversity is more than racial identity. It is an easy read which made it an easy one to pick up.