All educators must be aware of their legal and professional responsibilities to students with disabilities, and this book educates general education majors about disability ...

Disability is rarely considered a social issue. Scholars tend to discuss it in the abstract; medical personnel view it as a health issue; and legal concerns for the disabled ...

Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in general, and blindness in ...

Contains more than 350 alphabetically arranged entries on the development of American elementary and secondary education.

Presents information for disabled high-school students and their teachers, discussing academic and social issues, legal rights, the management of educational supports, learning ...

Synthesizing the history of childhood and disability studies, this handbook utilizes historical inquiry in a new way to illuminate children's experience with disability outside ...

A Seat at the Table documents the participation of disability activists and organizations in public policy making in Canada. The authors combine studies of contemporary federal ...

Links the role of civic discourse and communication to their connections to civil society, both domestically and on a global basis.