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What We Know
Families are the core units of society; they have extraordinary care-giving responsibilities for their members with disabilities; and, as a rule, they prefer to keep their young families intact and avoid out-of-home care. Federal and state policy and practice respond to those realities by providing funds and services to families.
What We're Doing
We sponsored two national summits on family support, headed a consortium that developed a consensus statement and another that developed a definition of family support (both provided many justifications for family support), established policy initiatives around the Developmental Disabilities Assistance Act and Medicaid (which is a source of family support funds), and created a national Community of Practice that soon will be web-based.
We developed a Consensus Statement on Family Support and a Definition of Family Support.
This
book introduces students to special education, with each chapter beginning and
ending with a vignette about a student and the student’s teachers and family. The first four chapters provide an overview
of special education in today’s schools; describe how the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act and state-of-the-art curriculum and instruction
assure students’ progress in the general education curriculum; explain the
issues and evidence-based responses to opportunities and challenges in today’s
culturally diverse schools; and teach how professionals and parents can work
effectively together. The remaining chapters describe how to teach students
with eleven different types of disabilities and those who are gifted.
Authors: Turnbull,
A., Turnbull, R., & Wehmeyer, M.
Date: 2009
Publisher: Pearson