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Learners with Mild Disabilities focuses on four high-prevalence disabilities; mild mental retardation, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, and ADHD, as well as briefer consideration of other mild conditions such as Asperger Syndrome. This text looks first at disability from conventional categorical perspectives, and then focuses on the perspective of alternative, non-categorical frameworks.

This text describes students with disabilities with respect to their individual strengths and needs, considering their cognitive, perceptual, language, academic learning, and social/emotional characteristics. The reader is encouraged to apply these conceptual frameworks though analysis of the numerous vignettes and extended case studies throughout the text, stories drawn from the experiences of real children and teachers. The separate categorical approaches around which other texts are organized tend to reinforce the notion of discrete disabilities, which current experience and philosophical discussions in the field of special education increasingly do not support and which do not prepare new special educators for the complex nature of services for students with mild disabilities.

Learners with Mild Disabilities is designed as a primary text for use in undergraduate and graduate courses addressing the characteristics of learners with high prevalence or milder levels of disability and is useful as a text for the first specialized course in a special education program. It supports programs in “generic special education,” a growing area of study as a number of states move toward generic or non-categorical certification.

New to this Edition:

Presents IDEA 2004 and its regulations in a clear and concise manner. The chapters on learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders have been significantly revised to reflect the impact of IDEA 2004’s response to intervention framework. New material has been added on English Language Learners (Ch. XYZ). Presents updated child count data from the most recent Annual Report of the Implementation of IDEA (2006) to help readers understand the magnitude of the numbers of students served in special education currently. Thinking and Discussion questions added to the opening Vignettes and closing Case Studies in Chapters 3, 6, 7.

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• Boxes
• Preface
• Unit I Setting the Stage
• Chapter One Perspectives on Disability
• Meet Clarence
• Studying High-Prevalence Disabilities
• Mild DoesNotMean ldquo;Not Seriousrdquo;
• The Power of Language
• Labeling, Classifying, and Identification
• To Classify or Not to Classify
• Thoughts on Labeling
• Prevention of Disabilities
• Overview of the Principles of the Idea
• Amendments to P.L.nbsp;94-142
• Focus on Culture and Diversity
• Resources on the Web
• Summary
• Ed Murphy: A Case Study
• Chapter Two Historical Perspectives and Contexts
• Meet Victor
• The Historical Context of Disability
• Early History
• The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• The Enlightenment
• Disabilities in the United States: 1800-1900
• Residential Services
• Public Special Education
• Disabilities in the United States: The Early Twentieth Century
• Eugenics in Europe and the United States
• The Testing Movement in Europe and the United States
• Serving Children Identified as Having Disabilities
• Special Education as a Profession
• Disabilities in the United States from 1950 to the Present
• General Education Initiative and Inclusion
• Legislative and Governmental Initiatives
• History of Rights Won in United States Courts
• Trends in History
• Focus on Culture and Diversity
• Resources on the Web
• Summary
• Patty: a Case Study
• Chapter Three Issues in Assessment and Identification
• Meet Jeffrey
• IDEA 1997 and 2004: Assessment and Evaluation Requirements
• Purposes of Assessment of Students with Special Educational N