This eye-opening set looks at young children with special needs, their families, and the laws, policies, programs, and services designed to help them. • Chapters from over 50 best-in-the-field contributors from disciplines including law, medicine, social work, occupational therapy, and education • Matrices, graphs, and diagrams • Extensive reference lists with every chapter
The three-volume Early Childhood Intervention: Shaping the Future for Children with Special Needs and Their Families is a unique, comprehensive, and much-needed examination of a critically important issue.
For example, the Shanghai city government set a requirement that general schools should hire a full-time special education teacher if there are students with disabilities learning in regular classes (sui ban jiu du).
The purpose of the Handbook of Special Education is to help profile and bring greater clarity to the already sprawling and continuously expanding field of special education.
Comprehensive and authoritative, this forward-thinking book reviews the breadth of current knowledge about early education and identifies important priorities for practice and policy.
The book begins with in-depth coverage of child and family approaches. From there it moves onto a consideration of school- and community-based strategies.
In C. Groark (Series Ed.) & L. Kaczmarek (Vol. Ed.), Early childhood intervention: Shaping the future for children with special needs and their families: Vol. 3. Emerging trends in research and practice (pp. 169–204).
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