This volume will examine the history of special education by categorical areas (e.g., Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Autistic Spectrum Disorders). Each categorical ...

Appropriate for introductory courses in Children with Exceptionalities, Exceptional Children, or Special Education. These courses are found in faculties of Education, Early ...

This follow-up to the first volume focuses on key dynamics consist of a retrospective overview of the paradigms that emerged from and shaped special education; a critical ...

Each chapter ends with a "Case in Point," profiling a student with disabilities and asking readers to think through the application of the chapter's concepts to that particular ...

As a significant term, inclusion came into use relatively recently in the long history of special education in the United States. Since the 1800s, when children with ...

James W. Trent uses public documents, private letters, investigative reports, and rare photographs to explore our changing perceptions of mental retardation over the past 150 ...