The Medicalization of America's Schools: Challenging the Concept of Educational Disabilities

by Joel Macht

Book Overview

This book challenges the validity of ADHD, learning disabilities, and dyslexia as meaningful special education "categories" and critically examines the misplaced medical model from which they are derived. The presumption that these disabilities cause school-related problems detracts from identifying factors within the classroom that create and maintain a child's underachievement and disruptive behavior. Moreover, when the disability is finally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319874438
• ISBN13: 9783319874432
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"