Human Stories
Validated Practices
Classroom Applications

With its continued emphasis on the voices of people with disabilities and their unique perspectives, the Fifth Edition of Introduction to Special Education: Teaching in an Age of Opportunity provides students with the most applied introduction to Special Education available. Using a problem-solving approach, this highly regarded text presents current special education dilemmas and challenges students to think about their solutions.

Introduction to Special Education is well organized, easy to follow, and accurate. . . . Advance organizers and good organization of subtitles make the topic easier for students to grasp the material. . .the text offers a fresh approach to special education topics.
Peggy Reader Moore, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

I find Introduction to Special Education to be well detailed and well organized.
Nancy T. Capulo, Hudson Valley Community College

The greatest strengths of Introduction to Special Education are: the reading level and organizational format that make it easy for students to use, the teaching suggestions at the end of each chapter, [and] the organization that represents the areas identified in the law.
Terry Jentsch, University of Idaho

Integrate IDEA 2004 into your course!
This IDEA 2004 Update Edition reflects the IDEA 2004 legislation in two ways:

• An IDEA 2004 icon appears in the margins adjacent to relevant discussions throughout the book that have been revised to reflect IDEA 04.
• Guide to IDEA 2004 has been included as an appendix. It provides side-by-side comparison of IDEA 04 versus the previous 97 legislation for each of the statutes and a little friendly background where it will help the reader better understand the practical implications of the law.