Whatever Happened to Inclusion?: The Place of Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Education
- ISBN-10
- 1433104342
- ISBN-13
- 9781433104343
- Category
- Disability studies
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- Phil Smith
Description
Law, policy, and practice in the United States has long held that students with disabilities - including those with intellectual disabilities - have the right to a free and appropriate public education, in a non-restrictive environment. Yet very few of these students are fully included in general education classrooms. Educational systems use loopholes to segregate students; universities regularly fail to train teachers to include students; and state regulators fail to provide the necessary leadership and funding to implement policies of inclusion. Whatever Happened to Inclusion? reports on the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities from national and state perspectives, outlining the abject failure of schools to provide basic educational rights to students with significant disabilities in America. The book then describes the changes that must be made in teacher preparation programs, policy, funding, and local schools to make the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities a reality.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education
By Scot Danforth, Susan Lynn GabelDisability studies in education is a provocative and innovative field of social inquiry that challenges standard ways of thinking about disability in education, practices that serve to exclude disabled people...
-
Disability: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare
By Nick WatsonThe aim of this four-volume collection will be to select a range of core readings covering disability studies across all of these areas.
-
The Disability Studies Reader
By Lennard J. DavisDavid Mitchell and Sharon Snyder have seen this analogical treatment of disability as a “narrative prosthesis” by which a disabled character serves as a crutch to shore up normalcy somewhere else.18 The disabled character is prosthetic ...
-
Investigating a Culture of Disability: Final Report
By Steven E. Brown, Mary E. SwitzerInvestigating a Culture of Disability: Final Report
-
Rethinking Disability: Principles for Professional and Social Change
By Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen French GilsonThis book provides a theoretical lens through which to view Disability.
-
Disability Studies: Buch
By Sharon L. SnyderDisability Studies: Buch
-
Dis/ability Studies: Theorising Disablism and Ableism
By Dan GoodleyThis study draws on sociology, psychology, education, and policy and cultural studies to make the case for a novel and distinct intellectual and political project--dis/ability studies--to encourage the rethinking of the phenomena of ability ...
-
Disability and Culture: The Usefulness of Davis' Argument about the Relationship Between the Concept of Normalcy and Cultural Production
By Leila FieldingEveryone in any culture is subject to being labelled and disabled." Yet, despite the temporality of ability, disability is still marginalised, distorted and concealed within mainstream culture.
-
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory
By Sarah Jaquette Ray"Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency ...
-
Rethinking Disability: A Disability Studies Approach to Inclusive Practices
By Jan W. ValleRethinking Disability: A Disability Studies Approach to Inclusive Practices