Learners with Mild Disabilities : A Characteristics Approach
ISBN: 9780205519149 | 0205519148
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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The reader is encouraged to apply these conceptual frameworks though analysis of the numerous vignettes and extended case studies throughout the text, stories drawn from the experiences of real children and teachers. The separate categorical approaches around which other texts are organized tend to reinforce the notion of discrete disabilities, which current experience and philosophical discussions in the field of special education increasingly do not support and which do not prepare new special educators for the complex nature of services for ... MORE
| Boxes | |
| Preface | |
| Setting the Stage | |
| Perspectives on Disability | |
| Meet Clarence | |
| Studying High-Prevalence Disabilities | |
| Mild DoesNotMean ldquo;Not Seriousrdquo; | |
| The Power of Language | |
| Labeling, Classifying, and Identification | |
| To Classify or Not to Classify | |
| Thoughts on Labeling | ... MORE |
| Prevention of Disabilities | |
| Overview of the Principles of the Idea | |
| Amendments to P.L.nbsp;94-142 | |
| Focus on Culture and Diversity | |
| Resources on the Web | |
| Summary | |
| Ed Murphy: A Case Study | |
| Historical Perspectives and Contexts | |
| Meet Victor | |
| The Historical Context of Disability | |
| Early History | |
| The Middle Ages and the Renaissance | |
| The Enlightenment | |
| Disabilities in the United States: 1800-1900 | |
| Residential Services | |
| Public Special Education | |
| Disabilities in the United States: The Early Twentieth Century | |
| Eugenics in Europe and the United States | |
| The Testing Movement in Europe and the United States | |
| Serving Children Identified as Having Disabilities | |
| Special Education as a Profession | |
| Disabilities in the United States from 1950 to the Present | |
| General Education Initiative and Inclusion | |
| Legislative and Governmental Initiatives | |
| History of Rights Won in United States Courts | |
| Trends in History | |
| Focus on Culture and Diversity | |
| Resources on the Web | |
| Summary | |
| Patty: a Case Study | |
| Issues in Assessment and Identification | |
| Meet Jeffrey | |
| IDEA 1997 and 2004: Assessment and Evaluation Requirements | |
| Purposes of Assessment of Students with Special Educational N | |
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Eileen Raymond is currently serving as the associated dean in the School of Education and Professional Studies at The State University of New York at Potsdam and holds the rank of professor.
