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Author Kavale, Kenneth A., 1946-

Title The positive side of special education : minimizing its fads, fancies, and follies / Kenneth A. Kavale, Mark P. Mostert.

Imprint Lanham, Md. : ScarecrowEducation, 2004.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  371.9 K17p 2004    ---  Available
Description xi, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-285) and indexes.
Contents Science: Good, bad, and bogus -- Educating intelligence: mind over matter -- Heredity, environment, and the great debate about "intelligence" -- Perceptual-motor training and the improvement of nothing at all -- Psycholinguistic training: faculty psychology revisited -- Treating autism: manipulators, mystics, and monsters -- Dyslexia interventions: sorcery, witchcraft, and legerdemain -- Ideology and special education: cry "havoc!" -- The end of special education?
Subject Children with disabilities -- Education -- Evaluation.
Children with disabilities -- Education -- Research -- Methodology.
Added Author Mostert, Mark P.
ISBN 1578860970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781578860975 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 257357688

 
    
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