M. A Winzer
Author
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 463 pages)
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive volume examines the facts, characters, and events that shaped this field in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States. From the first efforts to teach disabled people in early Christian and Medieval eras to such current mandates as Public Law 94-142, this study breaks new ground in assessing the development of special education as a formal discipline. The History of Special Education presents a four-part narrative that traces...