Distinguishing Disability Download

Author: Colin Ong-Dean
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0226630005

Distinguishing Disability: Parents, Privilege, and Special Education

Students in special education programs can have widely divergent experiences. Download Distinguishing Disability: Parents, Privilege, and Special Education from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 school and beyond. Distinguishing Disability argues that this inequity in treatment is directly linked to the disparity in resources possessed by the students' parents.

Since the mid-1970s, federal law has empowered parents of public school children to intervene in virtually every aspect of the decision making involved in special education. However, Colin Ong-Dean reveals that this power is generally available only to those parents with Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.