Creating the continuum
Subtitle: a history of specialized support for people with intellectual disabilities and the future of inclusive reform
By: Philip M. Ferguson, Dianne L. Ferguson.
Contributors: Ferguson, Dianne L.
Series: Disability studies in education -- v. 4
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820486123
Subjects: People with mental disabilities -- Services for -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What's the continuum and where did it come from?; title: Discovering the continuum : the logic and reality of disability services; title: From development to displacement : setting the stage for the continuum in the late nineteenth century; title: Living on the continnum : Charles Bernstein and the colony system; title: Learning on the continuum : J. E. Wallace Wallin and the emergence of public school special education; title: Working on the continuum : the evolution of the sheltered workshop; title: The family and the continuum : parental responses to professional systems of segregation and support; title: A new logic of support : the future of inclusive services and system reform.