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Critical Issues in Special Education

by: Ysseldyke, James; Algozzine, Bob; Thurlow, Martha L.

Critical Issues in Special Education

by: Ysseldyke, James; Algozzine, Bob; Thurlow, Martha L.

ISBN 13:
9780395961278
ISBN 10:
0395961270
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/28/1999
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

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Summary

Critical Issues in Special Education is an analysis of important conceptual and practical issues that face special education professionals. Part One illustrates the background and status of special education through current analysis of fundamental guiding practices. Part Two focuses on key practices in special education services with the latest information on assessment, instruction, early intervention, transition, and school reform. Part Three provides an analysis of social, political, legal, and economic activity reflected in special education practice.

Foundations of Contemporary Practice
Competing Perspectives
Conceptual Issues
Practical Issues
Issues Reflected in Practice
Education at the Margins
Special Education in Context
Education's Mission
School and Society Goals and Objectives of Education
The Changing and Unchanging Face of Education
Legal Basis for Special Education
Special Education: Why Now and What For?
Special Education Today
Current Special Education Categories
Current Conditions of Special Education
A Positive Idea?
Definitional Debate Hardware Versus
Software Perspectives on Classification
Where Does ADD or ADHD Belong?
Placement Controversy Names
Still Mean Places for Students with Special Needs
Environments and Prevalence
The Push and Pull of the General Education
Classroom "You're Out of Here": Placements
Outside the Mainstream Places Still Mean
Problems for People with Special Needs
Contemporary Issues and Practices
Issues in Assessment Current Decision-Making Practices
The Many Kinds of Assessment Information Used in Schools Contemporary
Influences on Assessment Practices
Issues in Making Classroom and Entitlement Decisions
Relevance to Intervention Issues in Making Large-Scale Assessment and Accountability
Decisions Summary
Issues in Instruction
The Relationship of Views on Causality to Treatment Approaches
How Treatment Decisions Are Made Prereferral Intervention
What Is Special About Instruction of Students with Disabilities?
Strategy Training Versus
Content Instruction Enrichment, Acceleration, and Separation Aversive Treatments
Why Isn't Intervention Research Translated into Practice?
Early Intervention Assumptions of Early Intervention Historical Background
The Downward Escalation of Educational Services
Early Assessment Nature of Intervention
New Constituencies for Early Special Education Intervention
Transition Transition into School Transitions
During School Transition Beyond High School
School Reform and Special Education
School Reform, Restructuring, and Excellence in Education
Eight National Goals for Education
Reform, Restructuring, and Excellence in Special Education?
General Education Reforms and Their Effects Change in Education
Issues Reflected in Practice
Home-School-Community Agency Partnerships
Home-School Partnerships Facing
Challenges to Home-School
Partnerships Overcoming Challenges to Home-School
Collaboration Interagency Collaboration
Legal Issues
The Role of Legislatures and Courts in American Education
Economic Issues in Special Education
The Role of Government in Education
Financial Issues
Efficiency Issues
Results of Schooling Identifying
Desired Educational Results
Collecting Data on Educational Results
Effects of Policies Related to Educational Results
Data on the Results of Schooling for Students with Disabilities
Continuing Challenges
The Future of Special Education
Special Education and the Future
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Critical Issues in Special Education

Critical Issues in Special Education

9780395961278

0395961270

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