A Parent's Guide to Special Education: Insider Advice on How to Navigate the System and Help Your Child Succeed - Softcover

Linda Wilmshurst; Alan W. Brue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814472834 ISBN 13: 9780814472835

Publisher: Amacom Books, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Author:

This book has been replaced with the second edition, retitled as 
The Complete Guide to Special Education: Expert Advice on Evaluations, IEPs, and Helping Kids Succeed (Second Edition).

You can find it on Amazon at: amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Special-Education-Evaluations/dp/047061515X/

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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0814472834
• ISBN 13: 9780814472835
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262