Distinguishing disability
Subtitle: parents, privilege, and special education
By: Colin Ong-Dean.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780226630007; 9780226630014
Subjects: Children with disabilities -- Education -- United States; Special education -- Parent participation -- United States
Description: Students in special education programmes can have widely divergent experiences. This book argues that this inequality in treatment is directly linked to the disparity in resources possessed by the students' parents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From social reform to technical management; title: Disabled children's parents; title: High roads and low roads to disability; title: Looking for answers; title: Whose voices are heard?; title: Reflections on disability and social reproduction.