Special Education International Perspectives

Description:

The volume will be divided into four parts. Part 1 will present an overview on disability that focuses on two major themes, namely, the biopsychosocial approaches to disability and cultural views of disability. Part 2 will examine five major areas of high incidence exceptionalities: cognitive impairment, learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity, autism spectrum disorders, behavioural/emotional disorders and speech and language disorders.

subjects: Special education,  Cross-cultural studies,  Learning disabled,  Education,  People with mental disabilities,  Pervasive Child Development Disorders,  Cross-Cultural Comparison,  Internationality