A Parent's Guide to Special Education: Insider Advice on How to Navigate the System and Help Your Child Succeed

by Linda Wilmshurst and Alan W. Brue

"The term 'special education' encompasses dozens of learning challenges: developmental delay, learning and physical disabilities, emotional disturbance, retardation, language impairment, autism, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814472834
• ISBN13: 9780814472835
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Discussions of the special education process, its place & role in the overall educational system,

Special education embraces a host of different learning challenges, from developmental delays and disabilities to emotional problems, language impairment, and more: with all these conflicting needs present, it becomes a challenge to assess and run a special education program for all. Parents receive help and guidance to programs and administrators in A Parent's Guide To Special Education: Insider Advice On How To Navigate The System And Help Your Child Succeed. Here are discussions of the special education process, its place and role in the overall educational system, and how intelligence is assessed. Chapters on what to expect from special education and where it can fail, parent-teacher communications and meetings, and issues beyond basic eligibility determinations provide plenty of clear insights.

I also liked this book

Like the other reviewers, I found this book quite helpful. My grandson was diagnosed as having a learning disability and I bought this book for my daughter. I read it first because sometimes I go to meetings for her if she cannot get off from work. The book has some very helpful information. I told my daughter to bring this book to the first meeting she has this next school year so that the school staff knows that she has read up on the topic. We'll have to see if it makes a difference since she sometimes gets the run-around. Anyway, I would recommend this book to parents (and grandparents!) of a child who is in special education.

A great help!

I'm glad this book just came out. My daughter began receiving special education services just after Spring Break and my wife and I were a bit scared about the whole process. I ordered this book recently and it's already come in handy. The acronyms section was helpful since Lauren's teachers often throw them around, forgetting that we are brand new to special education. IMHO, it's definitely a book worth buying.