The positive side of special education : minimizing its fads, fancies, and follies /
Kenneth A. Kavale, Mark P. Mostert.
- Lanham, Md. : ScarecrowEducation, 2004.
- xi, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-285) and indexes.
Science: Good, bad, and bogus -- Educating intelligence: mind over matter -- Heredity, environment, and the great debate about "intelligence" -- Perceptual-motor training and the improvement of nothing at all -- Psycholinguistic training: faculty psychology revisited -- Treating autism: manipulators, mystics, and monsters -- Dyslexia interventions: sorcery, witchcraft, and legerdemain -- Ideology and special education: cry "havoc!" -- The end of special education?
1578860970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003026002
Children with disabilities--Education--Evaluation. Children with disabilities--Education--Research--Methodology.