Viewpoints on Interventions for Students with Extensive and Pervasive Support Needs
Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities
ISBN: 978-1-78743-090-7, eISBN: 978-1-78743-089-1
Publication date: 5 June 2018
Abstract
This chapter provides “viewpoints” on the education of learners with extensive and pervasive support needs. That is, students who require the most support to learn, often categorized as having intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, or related disabilities. The lenses through which we provide these viewpoints are historical and future-oriented; we begin with historic perspectives on the education of students with extensive and pervasive support needs, and then provide 21st century viewpoints for these learners. We interpret the notion of viewpoints in two ways: first, consistent with a viewpoint as indicating an examination of objects (in this case, practices and interventions) from a distance so as to be able to compare and judge; and, second, viewpoint as indicating our perspective on said interventions and practice.
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Citation
Kurth, J., Zagona, A., Miller, A. and Wehmeyer, M. (2018), "Viewpoints on Interventions for Students with Extensive and Pervasive Support Needs", Obiakor, F.E. and Bakken, J.P. (Ed.) Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities (Advances in Special Education, Vol. 33), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 143-167. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-401320180000033007
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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