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In spring 2019, Brookes releases the eighth edition of Children with Disabilities, the authoritative textbook from senior editor Mark Batshaw, M.D. and colleagues. Trusted for four decades by university faculty and professionals from diverse fields, Children with Disabilities is the gold-standard text on working effectively with children and families. The new edition includes comprehensive coverage of contemporary issues, the latest evidence-based practices, and contributions from a who’s who of today’s leading experts.

With the expanding family of MILLIE products—Story Friends, PAth to Literacy, and 2018’s Assessment of Story Comprehension—early childhood educators have fun, innovative, and research-based ways to help young children boost the early literacy skills that predict later success in reading.

ASQ®, the trusted screener from renowned experts Jane Squires & Diane Bricker, turns 20! We have lots to celebrate: ASQ is in its third edition, and the social-emotional screener ASQ®:SE is in its second. Thousands of programs in all 50 states have used ASQ to check children’s development and help families celebrate milestones. And new products—from learning activities to new translations—keep the ASQ family growing all the time!

Despite progress, preK inclusion still lags behind K-12 inclusion. We expand our preK inclusion offerings with innovative new titles for today’s teachers, including Barton & Smith’s Preschool Inclusion Toolbox, Richardson-Gibbs & Klein’s Making Preschool Inclusion Work, and Gupta’s First Steps to Preschool Inclusion.

First unveiled in a 2003 Young Children article, The Pyramid Model uses three levels of support (universal, targeted, and individualized) to promote social-emotional competence in young children. Brookes leads the way in publishing books and tools on this evidence-based model, including the Preschool-Wide Evaluation Tool™ (PreSET™), the Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT™), and The Teaching Pyramid Infant‑Toddler Observation Scale (TPITOS). We also partner with the Pyramid Model Consortium (PMC) to expand access to the model for educators across the country.

The country’s most passionate and knowledgeable inclusion experts partner up with Brookes to bring busy teachers real-world tips and strategies on how to include every learner. Game-changing titles include Julie Causton’s  Inclusive School Practices series, Paula Kluth’s You’re Going to Love this Kid!, and new editions of Snell & Janney’s Teachers’ Guides to Inclusive Practices.

Brookes unveils AEPSinteractive™ (AEPSi™), a user-friendly web-based management system for AEPS. Now it’s even easier for busy AEPS users to seamlessly link assessment, goal development, intervention, and evaluation for young children. The new system also helps AEPS users run reports in seconds, slash time spent on paperwork, meet OSEP reporting mandates, and assess multiple children at once with group activities.

Two important new preschool inclusion resources give early childhood educators real-world strategies for meeting the needs of diverse learners. Sandall & Schwartz’s practical guidebook, Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs, makes evidence-based inclusion practices accessible for preschool teachers. And with Blended Practices for Teaching Young Children in Inclusive Settings by Grisham-Brown et al., teachers discover how to blend the best of special education and general education so all children can learn. Both books are in new editions and continue to shape inclusive practices in early childhood.

Brookes moves the field forward with seminal titles from renowned autism experts, including Amy Wetherby (CSBS and Autism Spectrum Disorders), Barry Prizant (SCERTS), Kathleen Quill (DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY, now in a second edition) and Robert & Lynn Koegel (look for the new edition of their breakthrough 2005 guide, Pivotal Response Treatments for Autism). And Paula Kluth’s practical, teacher-friendly guidebooks paved the way for full inclusion of learners with autism.

The product of decades of research by Jane Squires, Diane Bricker, and their colleagues, ASQ® answers the need for an affordable, reliable, way to screen children in the critical early years and identify potential delays. This trailblazing screener is the first to have parents complete the questionnaires—which makes results more accurate and makes screening more efficient and economical.

Today, ASQ is the most widely used and respected developmental screener in the world. More than a million questionnaires are completed every year, and the third edition, ASQ®-3, has been translated into more than 30 languages.  New ASQ products have addressed users’ evolving needs, including ASQ Online and the dedicated social-emotional screener ASQ®:SE-2.

In the landmark study published in their book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, Betty Hart & Todd Risley recorded parent-child spoken interactions in 42 families. They discovered that some children heard 30 million fewer words by their fourth birthdays than others—and that this “word gap” has long-term effects on later child outcomes. Meaningful Differences has had a huge impact in the twenty years since Brookes published it, prompting followup studies on the word gap and major projects like the Thirty Million Words® Initiative.

As the field of early intervention evolves, so does the belief that interventions should be real activities with relevance to children’s lives. Teaming with experts like Diane Bricker, Kristi Pretti-Frontczak, and JoAnn (JJ) Johnson, we publish new titles on activity-based intervention—weaving intervention efforts into the playtimes and routines of children and their families. Key titles include Bricker et al.’s An Activity-Based Approach to Early Intervention and Squires & Bricker’s An Activity-Based Approach to Developing Young Children’s Social Emotional Competence.

In the last decade of the twentieth century, we set the stage for the future of inclusive education by launching some of our most enduring textbooks for teachers. Widely adopted texts include Orelove et al.’s Educating Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities, Wehman’s Life Beyond the Classroom, Downing et al.’s Including Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities in Typical Classrooms, and Wehmeyer’s A Comprehensive Guide to Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Starting with the hugely popular guide Steps to Independence, we publish some of the most respected and beloved books for families of children with disabilities. Thousands of parents rely on Brookes books like Turnbull & Turnbull’s Disability and the Family and Pueschel’s A Parent’s Guide to Down Syndrome. We continue the tradition today, with warm and wise guidebooks like Naseef’s Autism in the Family.

We establish ourselves as one of the only publishers to meet the learning needs of professionals preparing to work with children and adults with disabilities. Early bestsellers include Sailor et al.’s Methods of Instruction for Severely Handicapped Students, Horner et al.’s Education of Learners with Severe Handicaps, Evans & Meyer’s An Educative Approach to Behavior Problems, Batshaw et al.’s Children with Disabilities, and Ford et al.’s Syracuse Curriculum guide. Some of these books have had tremendous staying power—the Syracuse Curriculum influenced the education of children with disabilities for decades, and Children with Disabilities is now in its seventh edition!