Introduction to Special Education Teaching in an Age of Opportunity

Human Stories. Validated Practices. Classroom Applications. With its continued emphasis on the voices of people with disabilities and their unique perspectives, the Fifth Edition of Introduction to Special Education: Teaching in an Age of Opportunity provides students with the most applied introduction to Special Education available. Using a problem solving approach, this highly-regarded text presents current special education dilemmas and challenges students to think about their solutions. Introduction to Special Education is well organized, easy to follow, and accurate...Advance organizers and good organization of subtitles make the topic easier for students to grasp the material...the text offers a fresh approach to special education topics. Peggy Reader Moore, University of North Carolina Charlotte I find Introduction to Special Education to be well detailed and well organized. Nancy T. Capulo, Hudson Valley Community College The greatest strengths of Introduction to Special Education are: the reading level and organizational format that make it easy for students to use, the teaching suggestions at the end of each chapter, (and) the organization that represents the areas identified in the law. Terry Jentsch, University of IdahoSmith, Deborah D. is the author of 'Introduction to Special Education Teaching in an Age of Opportunity', published 2003 under ISBN 9780205376162 and ISBN 0205376169.