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Armstrong, an author, speaker, and workshop leader who worked as a special education teacher, argues that general and special educators should embrace the strengths of students who learn, think, and behave differently and view them through the lens of neurodiversity rather than disability. After discussing this concept and the concept of positive niche construction to establish a favorable environment in which students can flourish, he focuses on students with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities, and emotional and behavioral disorders, and their positive attributes, adult role models, computer programs and applications that allow them to overcome obstacles, learning strategies, future career paths, human resources inside and outside of school to support them, modifications of the school environment to allow inclusion in the regular classroom, and how to integrate the strategies and assessments with the Common Core State Standards. The final chapter relates these ideas to practices at a school in Massachusetts and the key features of strengths-based schools. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
