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A Parent's Guide to Special Education: Insider Advice on How to Navigate the System and Help Your Child Succeed | 
 enlarge | Authors: Linda Wilmshurst, Alan W. Brue
Publisher: AMACOM
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 343426
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0814472834
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.9
EAN: 9780814472835
ASIN: 0814472834
Publication Date: July 18, 2005
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Product Description
The term 'special education' encompasses dozens of learning challenges: developmental delay, learning and physical disabilities, emotional disturbance, retardation, language impairment, autism, and others. By nature of this diversity, navigating even well-run, well-funded special education programs can be daunting. A Parent's Guide to Special Education offers guidance to parents and their children -- as well as to teachers, counselors, and administrators -- on issues including: * diagnosis and awareness
* special education laws
* eligibility issues and requirements
* programs
* parenting issues
* communication between parents and schools
* and much more A Parent's Guide to Special Education offers invaluable information and a positive vision of special education that will help them through a potentially overwhelming process. Filled with practical recommendations, sample forms, and enlightening examples, this is a priceless resource for helping every child learn.
Book Description
"The term 'special education' encompasses dozens of learning challenges: developmental delay, learning and physical disabilities, emotional disturbance, retardation, language impairment, autism, and others. By nature of this diversity, navigating even well-run, well-funded special education programs can be daunting. A Parent's Guide to Special Education offers guidance to parents and their children -- as well as to teachers, counselors, and administrators -- on issues including: * diagnosis and awareness * special education laws * eligibility issues and requirements * programs * parenting issues * communication between parents and schools * and much more A Parent's Guide to Special Education offers invaluable information and a positive vision of special education that will help them through a potentially overwhelming process. Filled with practical recommendations, sample forms, and enlightening examples, this is a priceless resource for helping every child learn."
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Must Have for Special Ed Parents February 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This one is amazing too! Along with Wrightslaw's From Emotions to Advocacy--these two books together are a great resource for parents of special needs kids!! A Must Have for your reference library!! Buy It!
A MUST HAVE FOR ANY PARENT OF A SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD January 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Any parent of a child with special needs knows how complex the special education process is, and what little information the school district will give you regarding what services your child may be entitled to. I found this book to be indispensible as I prepared for my first CSE meeting, and I often go back & refer to it as the need arises. No special ed. parent should be without this book.
A good book to start with June 3, 2006
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
My husband and I are still pretty new to the special education process. Just two years ago our daughter was diagnosed with autism. We have gone through a lot with our district, but they have been very supportive and have provided a lot of services with little or no hassle. Some other parents have had to hired parent advocates on behalf of the child, but we have been fortunate so far. Another parent recommended this book to me after an advocate recommended it to her. It has a lot of really good information if you want to understand the entire process. The most difficult thing is to understand what the assessment results mean. This book does a good job of explaining it even though it is such a dry subject. A really helpful part was the antonyms. They are used a LOT in meetings and it seems very cryptic. I hope this book helps you and your child.
Just what we needed May 13, 2006
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
I was very happy to receive this book from my husband for Christmas. (Sorry for the delay in my review.) Our son was diagnosed with bipolar disorder two years ago and his behavior is, times, out of control. School personnel have had a really hard time handling him, just as we have at home. Despite being on medication, his behavior is still not acceptable for a child at age 9. I actually resisted special education services until I received this book. I think that like a lot of parents, I had this notion that special education was a dumping ground for children that teachers did not want to deal with. Because of my son's behavior, I really thought this was the case. But this book really helped me to understand special education and the children who get those types of services. I learned a lot from this book. I did not realize how many children receive special education. The information is easy to understand and walks you through a step-by-step process from the evaluation to the meeting. My son was evaluated in March and the chapters on assessment helped me to better understand his report. I have not had a problem with communications with the school, but there is a chapter there for anyone who has had a problem. I hope I won't need it. The chapter on labels was the most helpful to us since it helped us to move past the idea that the label is the important thing. It's not, it's the services our son receives. The label really means nothing since it's just a way for the school to give him the services he needs. I did find that the IEP chapter was helpful because we thought the goals the school created for him were too difficult to master, so the school changed it for us and we will meet again after he starts 4th grade to see how he is doing. Although I did not really read the new law information, it may be helpful to people who may eventually need to hire an attorney. I hope that will not happen to us, but I have met a couple of people who needed to hire an attorney to school the school. I didn't knw about this book at the time, but I would have suggested they buy a copy to see if it was helpful to them.
I would also like to recommend "The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder" if you have a child with bipolar disorder. You may want to wait for the revised edition that is coming out this summer. It is very helpful.
Helpful even for a teacher May 2, 2006
35 out of 37 found this review helpful
Although I am not a parent, this is my eighth year working as a special education teacher. My principal bought this book for all six special education teachers in my school so that we could use this information to work with parents.
What I like about the book is that it does not talk down to parents. Everything is discussed in a positive tone. My experience with school psychologists has been both good and bad, but I can see how these two authors would be two of the good ones.
I was surprised at how much information is covered and how a lot of it is really helpful to me as a teacher. Since I got this book for Christmas, I have shared the book with a dozen or so teachers and they seem to like the information and find it helpful. The acronyms chapter was great.
I wish the book had more information on IEPs, but I realize that it not its focus and the information they give probably is enough for parents.
All in all, I like the book and give it five stars.
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