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9781578860975

The Positive Side of Special Education Minimizing Its Fads, Fancies, and Follies

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  • ISBN13:

    9781578860975

  • ISBN10:

    1578860970

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-06-21
  • Publisher: R&L Education
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $72.00

Summary

This book provides a description of special education practices that have had significant impact but lacked scientific validation.

Author Biography

Kenneth A. Kavale is professor of special education at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus 1(12)
2 Educating Intelligence: Mind over Matter 13(16)
3 Heredity, Environment, and the Great Debate about "Intelligence" 29(20)
4 Perceptual-Motor Training and the Improvement of Nothing at All 49(28)
5 Psycholinguistic Training: Faculty Psychology Revisited 77(22)
6 Treating Autism: Manipulators, Mystics, and Monsters 99(38)
7 Dyslexia Interventions: Sorcery, Witchcraft, and Legerdemain 137(38)
8 Ideology and Special Education: Cry "Havoc!" 175(50)
9 The End of Special Education? 225(12)
Epilogue 237(2)
References 239(48)
Subject Index 287(2)
Author Index 289(4)
About the Authors 293

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