Learners with Mild Disabilities : A Characteristics Approach

by Raymond, Eileen B.

• ISBN13: 9780205519149
• ISBN10: 0205519148
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780137060764, 9780205386062
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

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 students with mild disabilities. Learners with Mild Disabilities focuses on four high-prevalence disabilities; mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, and ADHD, as well as briefer consideration of other mild conditions such as Asperger Syndrome. This text looks first at disability from conventional categorical perspectives, and then focuses on the perspective of alternative, non-categorical frameworks. Designed as a primary text for use in undergraduate and graduate courses addressing the characteristics of learners with high prevalence or milder levels of disability and is useful as a text for the first specialized course in a special education program.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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

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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