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Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
Special education has become a major public commitment for exceptional students, not just in the United States, but throughout much of the rest of the world as well. This is true not only in Canada and western Europe, whose achievements in many areas of special education service often preceded and inspired those of the United States, but also in Japan, Indonesia, and less advanced and less affluent parts of the globe.
The growth of special education, and the extraordinary commitment of financial and human resources to service and research over the past two decades, has meant an explosion of information. This information, scattered in a wide variety of journals and books, has been extremely difficult for professionals to amass and acquire.
The Encyclopedia of Special Education is designed to present a com-prehensive vision of what special education is about in a readily under-standable, usable, and summative form. It makes it possible for any intelligent seeker of information about special education to grasp both the broad scope and specific details of those areas of endeavor identified with special education. Comprehensive yet succinct, the Encyclopedia literally provides an A to Z examination of what special education is all about.
The Encyclopedia of Special Education provides a thorough and summative view of special education and succinct access to needed in-formation. It will be an essential reference tool, not only for professionals working in special education, but also for lawyers, physicians, psycholo-gists, social workers, school board members, and others who assist in or formulate policies for the education of the handicapped and gifted. It is the type of reference the everyday citizen will find both useful and informative, since it is the informed citizen who, ultimately is the guard, ian of special education.
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