Distinguishing disability parents, privilege, and special education /

• Main Author: Ong-Dean, Colin.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Children with disabilities > Education > United States.; Special education > Parent participation > United States.; Children with disabilities.; Special education.; EDUCATION > Learning Disabilities. > Special Education; Behinderung.; Eltern.; Schüler.; USA.; Electronic books.
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Students in special education programs can have widely divergent experiences. For some, special education amounts to a dumping ground where schools unload their problem students, while for others, it provides access to services and accommodations that drastically improve chances of succeeding in sch...

Table of Contents:

• From social reform to technical management: the legal evolution of the Education for all Handicapped Children Act of 1975
• Disabled children's parents
• High roads and low roads to disability
• Looking for answers: the literature on disability
• Whose voices are heard? Due process hearings and parents' challenge to special education evaluations and placements
• Reflections on disability and social reproduction.