Title: What mothers say about special education
First published: 2009
Description: This book documents the experiences of 15 mothers whose children labeled learning disabled attended public schools during the last four decades. Despite the right of parents to participate in educational decision-making, these mothers describe the challenge of exercising that right. In candid and compelling narratives, mothers speak to the language of experts, conflicts in shared decision-making, devaluation of "mother knowledge," and the influence of race, class, and gender. The constancy of issues suggests that this landmark legislation may, in fact, have engendered minimal changes in the lives of mothers and their children.
Subjects: Special education, Case studies, Education, Learning disabled children, Learning disabled children, education, Teaching of students with specific learning difficulties, Needs, Learning Disabilities
Places: United States
LC classification: LC3981 .V24 2009