Disability Classification in Education: Issues and Perspectives

Contents
......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 12
About the Editors......Page 13
About the Contributors......Page 14
Part I International and Cross-National Contexts Within the Current Use of Disability Classification......Page 20
1 Disability Classification in Education......Page 22
2 Cross-National Comparisons of Special Education Classification Systems......Page 30
3 A Supply-Side Approach for a Resource-Based Classification System......Page 50
4 Evolving Dilemmas About Categorization......Page 66
5 Disability Classification, Categorization in Education......Page 87
6 Implications for Human and Civil Rights Entitlements......Page 97
7 Implications for Human and Civil Rights Entitlements......Page 113
8 The Classification of Pupils at the Educational Margins in Scotland......Page 128
Part II Interaction and Impacts of Classification Policies on Educational Systems......Page 148
9 Perspectives and Purposes of Disability Classification Systems......Page 150
10 Disability Classification and Teacher Education......Page 172
11 Disproportionality in Special Education......Page 189
12 Classification of Children With Disabilities in the Context of Performance-Based Educational Reform......Page 210
Part III New Approaches to the Classification Dilemma......Page 224
13 International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth......Page 226
14 Learning Disabilities in the United States......Page 246
15 Beyond the Dilemma of Difference......Page 263
16 Concluding Thoughts
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Index......Page 288