Thinking About Inclusion and Learning Disabilities: A Teacher's Guide
by Katherine Garnett
Available from the Council for Exceptional Children [http://www.cec.sped.org/bk/catalog2/inclusive.html]
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
The Symposium
Participants
The Broader Context
How You Fit In
Why This Symposium? (The elephant stories)
Some Questions
What are General Education Classrooms Really Like?
- Ideas to Investigate
What are Classrooms like for Students with Learning Disabilities?
- Ideas to Investigate
What Happens when Schools and Classrooms Undergo a Sustained Process of Change and are Structured Significantly Differently?
- Investigate the Ecologies of Special Class Settings Ideas to Investigate
What Makes Changing Schools and Classrooms (Among other Social Institutions) so Difficult?
- Ideas to Investigate
What do Students with learning Disabilities Really Need?
What are the Rightful Purposes of Special Education for Students with Learning Disabilities?
Some Conclusions
Follow-Up
Credits