American Special Education: A History of Early Political Advocacy

By Gerard Giordano

This book is an account of the epic struggle for special education in America's schools. It chronicles the actions of community leaders, families, caregivers, instructors, physicians, scientists, lawyers, judges, lawmakers, businesspersons, journalists, social activists, and persons with disabilities. It details the creation of facilities in which special learners would be safe, productive, independent, respected, and self-fulfilled. The book discusses techniques for assessing the presence, scope, and etiology of disabilities. Finally, American Special Education describes novel, sometimes expensive, and frequently controversial interventions, and places each development within the remarkable confluence of social and political circumstances that propelled the transformation of special education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820486957
• ISBN13: 9780820486956
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.