New Directions in Special Education: Eliminating Ableism in Policy And Practice
By Thomas Hehir.
Description
A comprehensive study that is also practical and realistic, New Directions in Special Education outlines principles for decisionmaking about special education at every level from the family to the classroom, school, and district and for state and federal policy.With this volume, leading scholar and disability advocate Thomas Hehir opens a new round of debate on the future of special education. Extending the conceptual framework developed in his seminal 2002 article in the Harvard Educational Review, Hehir examines the ways that cultural attitudes about disability systematically distort the ...
ISBN(s)
189179261X, 9781891792618
