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A Parent's Guide to Special Education: Insider Advice on How to Navigate the System and Help Your Child Succeed
Author(s): Linda Wilmshurst (Author), Alan W. Brue (Author)
- Publisher: Amacom Books
- Publication Date: 18 July 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 262 pages
- ISBN-10: 0814416047
- ISBN-13: 9780814416044
Book Description
The term ‘special education’ encompasses dozens of learning challenges: developmental delay, learning and physical disabilities, emotional disturbance, retardation, language impairment, autism, and others. By nature of this diversity, navigating even well-run, well-funded special education programs can be daunting. A Parent’s Guide to Special Education offers guidance to parents and their children — as well as to teachers, counselors, and administrators — on issues including: * diagnosis and awareness * special education laws * eligibility issues and requirements * programs * parenting issues * communication between parents and schools * and much more A Parent’s Guide to Special Education offers invaluable information and a positive vision of special education that will help them through a potentially overwhelming process. Filled with practical recommendations, sample forms, and enlightening examples, this is a priceless resource for helping every child learn.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
“Linda Wilmshurst (Eustis, FL) is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (American Board of Professional Psychology) and is currently a Licensed School Psychologist in Florida . She has more than 30 years of clinical and school psychology experience and has taught in clinical and school psychology programs in universities, internationally.
Alan Brue (Bethesda, MD) is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and Director of Professional Standards for the National Association of School Psychologists, and has also worked as a school psychologist and university trainer.”
