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

Wilmshurst, Linda; Brue, Alan W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814472834 ISBN 13: 9780814472835

Publisher: Amacom, 2005

Synopsis

A Parent’s Guide to Special Education offers invaluable information and a positive vision of special education that will help parents through the potentially overwhelming processes of catch-all programs that encompasses dozens of learning challenges:

developmental delay

learning and physical disabilities

emotional disturbance

retardation

autism, and others.

Filled with practical recommendations, sample forms, and enlightening examples, this is a priceless resource for helping every child learn.

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Review:

"This is one book that all parents should have in their personal library to better understand special education." -Attention! "ADDitutde: ""As a writer and educational specialist who has learning disorders, I found this book indispensable. Don't go to a school meeting without it!"" Special Education Law Blog (http: //specialedlaw.blogs.com): ""A Parent's Guide to Special Education...represents itself as an 'insider's' guide to the system. I am happy to report that the book lives up to this claim especially regarding the process of psychological testing.... This book tackles those issues in a readable way without oversimplification. The graphics and illustrations are clear and the needed concepts are well covered. The book also has many pointers for more effective advocacy. I certainly recommend this book to parents, and even to other attorneys and advocates, to assist in the process of effective advocacy.""" "ADDitutde: ""As a writer and educational specialist who has learning disorders, I found this book indispensable. Don't go to a school meeting without it!"" Special Education Law Blog (http: //specialedlaw.blogs.com): ""A Parent's Guide to Special Education...represents itself as an 'insider's' guide to the system. I am happy to report that the book lives up to this claim especially regarding the process of psychological testing.... This book tackles those issues in a readable way without oversimplification. The graphics and illustrations are clear and the needed concepts are well covered. The book also has many pointers for more effective advocacy. I certainly recommend this book to parents, and even to other attorneys and advocates, to assist in the process of effective advocacy.""" "This is one book that all parents should have in their personal library to better understand special education." -"Attention!" "This is one book that all parents should have in their personal library to better understand special education." -"Attention!" "ADDitutde: ""As a writer and educational specialist who has learning disorders, I found this book indispensable. Don't go to a school meeting without it!"" Special Education Law Blog (http: //specialedlaw.blogs.com): ""A Parent's Guide to Special Education...represents itself as an 'insider's' guide to the system. I am happy to report that the book lives up to this claim especially regarding the process of psychological testing.... This book tackles those issues in a readable way without oversimplification. The graphics and illustrations are clear and the needed concepts are well covered. The book also has many pointers for more effective advocacy. I certainly recommend this book to parents, and even to other attorneys and advocates, to assist in the process of effective advocacy.""" "ADDitutde: ""As a writer and educational specialist who has learning disorders, I found this book indispensable. Don't go to a school meeting without it!"" Special Education Law Blog (http: //specialedlaw.blogs.com): ""A Parent's Guide to Special Education...represents itself as an 'insider's' guide to the system. I am happy to report that the book lives up to this claim especially regarding the process of psychological testing.... This book tackles those issues in a readable way without oversimplification. The graphics and illustrations are clear and the needed concepts are well covered. The book also has many pointers for more effective advocacy. I certainly recommend this book to parents, and even to other attorneys and advocates, to assist in the process of effective advocacy.""" "This is one book that all parents should have in their personal library to better understand special education." -"Attention!"

About the Author:

Linda Wilmshurst is currently a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology for the American Board of Professional Psychology. She has more than 25 years of practitioner experience, including 15 as a school psychologist.

Alan Brue is Director of Professional Standards for the National Association of School Psychologists, and has also worked as a school psychologist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amacom
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0814472834
• ISBN 13: 9780814472835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256