Introduction to Special Education: The Spectrum of Exceptionalities

Why Teach Students with Disabilities? Because you SINCERELY love ALL children, regardless of ability or disabilityYou want to challenge the deficit thinking of students with disabilities to what they can do with a focus on high expectations and rigorous research-based instructionYou vow to meet all students where they are and prepare them for the futureYour interaction with students with disabilities can promote equity and social justice for all students This book contains…Sample documents used in special educationEach chapter begins with a vignette that aspiring teaching might encounter in their classrooms and strategies of how to work with that studentA chapter that focuses on culturally responsive pedagogy to address the unique learning needs of students with disabilities About the authors…Contributing authors are from across the United StatesDoctoral students, Assistant/Associate/Full Professors, Program Coordinators/Directors, Associate Deans, Deans, Retirees, etc.A chapter written by Dr. Donna Y. Ford, a leading scholar in gifted education and currently a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State UniversityA chapter written by Dr. Erin Lynch, the President of THE QEM Network, a non-profit organization in Washington, DC, dedicated to improving education throughout the nation Read more