Book Review:
ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core
Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments.
(2014). Editors: Carol B. Allman and Sandra Lewis.
Review by: Cary Saxton, M.A., cmiddlebush@gmail.com
ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students
with Visual Impairments (edited by Carol B. Allman and Sandra Lewis) is not
a light read in any sense of the word. The almost 650-page compendium of
Expanded Core Curriculum information won't be on anyone's beach reading
list this summer, but it undoubtedly deserves a prominent place in TVIs'
classrooms and offices. It is evident that the overworked, overstretched,
overloaded (and often itinerant) TVI is close to the editors' hearts, because
ECC Essentials is certainly a user-friendly
reference guide. The book is
divided into easily digestible chapters, each of which can be read or skimmed
in one sitting. The contributing authors have done an excellent job distilling
their lifetimes of knowledge about the various areas of the ECC for the
purposes of this volume. Any busy TVI who needs a cache of knowledge,
practical ideas and resources will want ECC Essentials close at hand.
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