Table of Contents

• 1. The Purposes, People, and Law of Special Education
• 2. Disability and Cultural Justice
• 3. Today's Families and Their Partnerships with Professionals
• 4. Ensuring Educational Progress
• 5. School-wide Systems of Supports
• 6. Cross-cutting Instructional Approaches
• 7. Students with Learning Disabilities
• 8. Students with Speech and Language Disorders
• 9. Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
• 10. Students with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• 11. Students with Intellectual Disability
• 12. Students with Autism
• 13. Students with Multiple Disabilities and Traumatic Brain Injury
• 14. Students with Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairments
• 15. Students with Hearing Impairments
• 16. Students with Visual Impairments
• 17. Students Who Are Gifted and Talented

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– Melinda Pierson, California State University, Fullerton

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– April Regester, University of Missouri, St. Louis

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– Karen Potter, New Mexico State University

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