Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students

Theory, Research, and Application

Steven I Pfeiffer, Linda A Reddy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317789406
• Topic: Didattica
• Subtopic: Didattica generale

Explore the challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls of the inclusion of students with disabilities in your classroom!Exciting, complex, and challenging shifts in American education are occurring today. First, schools are moving to embrace student diversity and accommodate the classroom experience to support diverse ways of organizing students for learning. Second, teachers are moving away from a traditional didactic instructional mode and embracing a facilitator role that encourages creating innovative classroom learning opportunities. Third, there is a shift from the view of the school as providing educational and psychoeducational services for students to providing educational supports for learning.Coinciding with these changes is the growing movement in special education that enourages full inclusion of students with special needs. This is a far cry from the exclusionary and separatist movements of special education less than twenty years ago. Now American education is facing the challenging situation of working with students with disabilities in the regular classroom. Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students provides a much needed overview of the issues faced by educators committed to understanding how to best serve children with disabilities in schools.Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students: Theory, Research, and Application provides an overview of the origins, evolution, and recent developments regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities into general education classrooms. The book critically challenges the overriding assumptions that support the philosophy of inclusion with a balanced presentation or research and theory that both supports and raises questions about the viability of this practice. The contributors are authorities in their respective areas of inclusionary practices.Some of the issues you will explore in Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students are:

• political, fiscal, and legal events that have shaped inclusion practices
• implications for school psychologists
• handling students with serious emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems remaining in regular education
• agenda for future research
• priorities for research, training, and policy reformInclusion Practices with Special Needs Students addresses practical, psychoeducational, philosophical, legal, ethical, and financial issues surrounding the inclusionary initiative in special education.

Index

Academic engaged time, 154–155

Academic issues, in mental retardation, 54–61

conclusions and recommendations, 61–62

instructional technologies, 58–59

learning characteristics and needs, 56–58

resource allocation, 60–61

teacher performance, 59–60

tolerance theory and joint outcome production, 54–56

“Adhocracy” concept, 102–103

Administrators

attitudes of, 180–181, 186–187

roles of, 186–187

(University of) Alabama, 125–141

Alternative activities, 100

American Association of School Administrators, 75–76

American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR), 52–54

American Council of the Blind, 14

American Federation of Teachers, 14, 76

American Psychological Association (APA), ethical standards of, 137–138, 141

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 130–131

Assessment, Sattler’s four pillars of, 139

Assessment issues, 87–93

Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC), 13

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 37–38, 86–87

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), court decision regarding, 134–135

Attitudes, 171–187. See also Social acceptance

of administrators, 180–181, 186–187

conclusions about, 187–188

of patents, 175–178, 181–183

of psychologists, 179–180, 184–186

of teachers, 178–179, 183–184

toward emotional/behavioral disorders, 32–35

Attitudinal barriers, to collaboration, 113–114

Behavioral disorders, 25–43. See also Emotional/behavioral disorders

Brown v. Board of Education, 83–84, 129

Burden of proof, 83

Bureaucracy, 102–103, 159

California State University, 71–124

Civil Rights movement, 6

Civil rights parallels, 83–84

Classroom practices, 96–100, 151–155

Class size, 153

Clinton, Pres. William, 15

Clustering, 60–61

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Inclusion of Disabled Children and School Reform: A Historical Perspective
• Inclusion and Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
• Inclusion and Students with Mental Retardation: Theoretical Perspectives and Implications
• Inclusion: Welcoming, Valuing, and Supporting the Diverse Learning Needs of All Students in Shared General Education Environments
• Interagency Collaboration: Recurring Obstacles and Some Possible Solutions
• Legal and Ethical Issues of Inclusion
• Achieving Effective and Inclusive School Settings: A Guide for Professional Development
• Inclusion: A Worthy Challenge for Parents, Teachers, Psychologists and Administrators
• An Evolutionary Process with an Uncertain Future: Commentary on Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students
• Index