Product Description: A reference work that presents a chronology focusing on special education, its development, and the important issues that both positively and negatively affect the field. This edition provides an excellent introduction to special education - how it developed, its curriculum, assessment issues, the law, and advocacy...read more

Product Description: A reference work that presents a chronology focusing on special education, its development, and the important issues that both positively and negatively affect the field.• A timeline of key events in the evolution of the concept of special education from the formation of the National Education Association in the 1880s to the Class Size Reduction Act of 2000• A directory of organizations, associations, and government agencies relating to all aspects of special education from advocacy and legal assistance programs to the Make-a-Wish Foundatio...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)