Are you completely sure what today’s teachers, adminstrators, and auxiliary personnel are required to provide to students with disabilities? This new edition ensures that you are. With this resource as your guide, you are up-to-date on the latest developments – including the most recent changes made to IDEA. It gives you extensive information about statutes, regulations and court cases affecting children with disabilities in a readable, timely, accurate manner – … More >>
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It’s a great book for any of those who work in the field of education. The book arrived new (great condition) and very fast
Rating: 5 / 5
People who are working toward becoming special education teachers need to know about special ed. law. This book is a very detailed resource and very helpful to future special ed teachers.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am an adjunct professor in an educational leadership program. I teach the “Administration of Pupil Services” course. I found this book to be great for its coverage of the major legislation for the handicapped. Would love some ideas for other materials related to the pupil services piece, i.e. roles of various personnel in school systems who have reponsibility for pupil services, the range of services and supports available to administrators related to all aspects of pupil services from attendance/truancy, to suspensions/expulsions, and the court system, etc.
Rating: 5 / 5
Like most potential buyers of this book, it’s probably a required textbook you are needing to buy for a graduate level course. Let that not daunt you, it’s one of the finest textbooks I’ve had…and I’ve had a few.
If your job requires you to work with children with disabilities, oversee programs that work with children with disabilities, or if you are a parent with a child with a disability I would highly recommend this book. It’s the single best overview of the big three laws concerning disabilities, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), American with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. If you are an administrator you can use the text to inform you and guide you in your work. If you are a parent you can use the text to let you know what your rights are to securing Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) for a child with a disability.
You can tell by the set-up and structure of the book that Dixie Snow Huefner took painstaking care to make the book student-friendly. There are ample margins for good note-taking right in the book. Each chapter has a wonderful review summation of the key points (perfect for working professional graduate students that may not have time to digest the Full Monty reading of the entire chapter). Also, there is a great acronym glossary that helps you make sense of the alphabet soup abbreviations of the world of special education law.
I really can not say enough good things about this book whether you pick it up as a textbook or to be better informed.
–MMW
Rating: 5 / 5