The medicalization of America's schools : challenging the concept of educational disabilities / Joel Macht.

This book challenges the validity of ADHD, learning disabilities, and dyslexia as meaningful special education categories, while it critically examines the misplaced medical model from which they're derived. The book asserts that the presumption that these disabilities cause school-related prob...

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Main Author: Macht, Joel, 1938- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. From Differences to Disabilities
  • 2. Disability Identification
  • 3. Learning Disabilities
  • 4. ADHD
  • 5. Active Intervention
  • 6. Diversity and the Common Core.