Cognella Academic Publishing People with Disabilities: Face to Face

People with Disabilities helps readers move past the tendency to define and identify some people primarily by their disabilities. Rather than solely offering facts and descriptions, the book presents authentic, life-affirming, and informative stories about people, coupled with pictures, vignettes, and links to YouTube clips to bring their experiences to life. The text is centered on three important themes. First, special education wouldn't exist without parents and advocates who wanted something better for their own children and others with disabilities. Second, people with disabilities are more similar to people without disabilities than they are different. Third, every person with a disability deserves support that is calibrated to their unique needs. The second edition features fresh content as well as new chapters about people with disabilities in the justice system and the intersection of poverty and disability. In the first edition, disabilities were first discussed simply in terms of high incidence and low incidence, whereas in the new edition, they are presented in more detail according to type of disability: cognitive, communication and affect, physical and health, sensory and multiple. People with Disabilities has been developed to support introductory courses in special education, disabilities, or human development, as well as courses for students in alternative licensure teacher education programs. About the Author Daniel J. Boudah is a professor in the Department of Special Education, Research, and Foundations at East Carolina University. He has been awarded numerous grants and carried out school-based research in teacher planning and inquiry, collaborative instruction, learning strategies, content enhancement, and dropout prevention. Dr. Boudah's work has been recognized for excellence by the Council for Exceptional Children, the Council for Learning Disabilities, and the American Educational Research Association, and his writing has been featured in professional journals, textbooks, and teacher training materials.