Critical Issues in Special Education

List of contents

I. Foundations of Contemporary Practice
1. Competing Perspectives
Conceptual Issues
Practical Issues
Issues Reflected in Practice
Education at the Margins
2. Special Education in Context
Education's Mission
School and Society
Goals and Objectives of Education
The Changing and Unchanging Face of Education
Legal Basis for Special Education
Special Education: Why Now and What For?
3. Special Education Today
Current Special Education Categories
Current Conditions of Special Education
A Positive Idea?
4. Definitional Debate
Hardware Versus Software
Perspectives on Classification
Where Does ADD or ADHD Belong?
5. Placement Controversy
Names Still Mean Places for Students with Special Needs
Environments and Prevalence
The Push and Pull of the General Education Classroom
"You're Out of Here": Placements Outside the Mainstream
Places Still Mean Problems for People with Special Needs
II. Contemporary Issues and Practices
6. Issues in Assessment
Current Decision-Making Practices
The Many Kinds of Assessment Information Used in Schools
Contemporary Influences on Assessment Practices
Issues in Making Classroom and Entitlement Decisions
Relevance to Intervention
Issues in Making Large-Scale Assessment and Accountability Decisions
Summary
7. Issues in Instruction
The Relationship of Views on Causality to Treatment Approaches
How Treatment Decisions Are Made
Prereferral Intervention
What Is Special About Instruction of Students with Disabilities?
Strategy Training Versus Content Instruction
Enrichment, Acceleration, and Separation
Aversive Treatments
Why Isn't Intervention Research Translated into Practice?
8. Early Intervention
Assumptions of Early Intervention
Historical Background
The Downward Escalation of Educational Services
Early Assessment
Nature of Intervention
New Constituencies for Early Special Education Intervention
9. Transition
Transition into School
Transitions During School
Transition Beyond High School
10. School Reform and Special Education
School Reform, Restructuring, and Excellence in Education
Eight National Goals for Education
Reform, Restructuring, and Excellence in Special Education?
General Education Reforms and Their Effects
Change in Education
III. Issues Reflected in Practice
11. Home-School-Community Agency Partnerships
Home-School Partnerships
Facing Challenges to Home-School Partnerships
Overcoming Challenges to Home-School Collaboration
Interagency Collaboration
12. Legal Issues
The Role of Legislatures and Courts in American Education
13. Economic Issues in Special Education
The Role of Government in Education
Financial Issues
Efficiency Issues
14. Results of Schooling
Identifying Desired Educational Results
Collecting Data on Educational Results
Effects of Policies Related to Educational Results
Data on the Results of Schooling for Students with Disabilities
15. Continuing Challenges
The Future of Special Education
Special Education and the Future

About the author

James E. Ysseldyke has been educating school psychologists and researchers for more than 35 years, and is now Professor Emeritus in the School Psychology Program at the University of Minnesota. He has advised and mentored more than 100 doctoral and Ed.S. students who have gone on to leadership positions in universities, school systems, government agencies, and research organizations. He has served the University of Minnesota as director of the Minnesota Institute for Research on Learning Disabilities, director of the National School Psychology Network, director of the National Center on Educational Outcomes, and associate dean for research. Dr. Ysseldykes research and writing have focused on enhancing the competence of individual students and enhancing the capacity of systems to meet students needs. He is an author of major textbooks and more than 300 journal articles. Dr. Ysseldyke has received awards for his research from the School Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association, and the Council for Exceptional Children. The University of Minnesota presented him a distinguished teaching award, and he received a distinguished alumni award from the University of Illinois.

Summary

Critical Issues in Special Education is an analysis of important conceptual and practical issues that face special education professionals. Part One illustrates the background and status of special education through current analysis of fundamental guiding practices. Part Two focuses on key practices in special education services. Part Three provides an analysis of social, political, legal, and economic activity reflected in special education practice.

Product details

• Authors: Bob Algozzine, Martha L. Thurlow, James Ysseldyke, James Algozzine Ysseldyke, James E. Ysseldyke
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.1999
• EAN: 9780395961278
• ISBN: 978-0-395-96127-8
• No. of pages: 464
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Special education