"This volume provides both contextual information on the development of special education and readily usable information and resources for parents and educators… Overall, the book is well written and provides a useful grounding in special education terminology, curricular issues, legislation, and policy."
-ARBA

Special Education: A Reference Book for Policy & Curriculum Development
Second Edition

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Pub. Date: February 2009
Hardcover: 600 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-292-9/978-1-59237-292-8
Price: $145.00
EBook ISBN: 978-1-59237-303-1 EBook Vendors

A reference work that presents a chronology focusing on special education, its development, and the important issues that both positively and negatively affect the field. Updated through current events, this second edition provides an excellent introduction to special education in all of its practical aspects—how it developed, its curriculum, assessment issues, the law, and advocacy.

• Offers a comprehensive introduction to special education, the broad number of disciplines that inform it, how it has evolved, and provides a context for understanding the current challenges and controversies surrounding the issue
  
  
• Focuses on contemporary research regarding such issues as cognitive development, multiple intelligences, and different learning styles
  
  
• Useful Directory of organizations, associations and government agencies relating to all aspects of special education
  
  
• Updated Chronology of Events in the evolution of the concept of special education
  
  
• New Primary Documents section
  
  
• Easy-to-use Bibliography
  
  
• Cumulative Index
  
  
• Available in print and ebook formats

The comprehensive coverage of this important topic will make this resource a must-have for all public, university and high school libraries, in addition to the reference collection of university education departments and school districts..

Also Available:

• Charter School Movement: History, Politics, Policies, Economics & Effectiveness
• Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools
• Complete Learning Disabilities Directory
• Educators Resource Directory

Pub. Date: February 2009
Hardcover: 600 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-292-9/978-1-59237-292-8
Price: $145.00
EBook ISBN: 978-1-59237-303-1 EBook Vendors

Note: If you find this work does not fit your budget, please print out this page and bring it to your local library. There is a reasonable chance they either have a copy, can direct you to a library that does, or will be willing to purchase it for their reference collection.