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Educational Service Interventions and Reforms

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Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Part of the book series: Issues on Clinical Child Psychology ((ICCP))

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Education—more specifically, special education—plays a unique and central role in addressing the problems of students with developmental disabilities. Proposed reforms of general and special education are thus critically important issues for developmental disabilities. Failure at school is tantamount to failure at life for children and youths, as school is the occupation of the young. The primary purpose of educational service interventions is to help youngsters with developmental disabilities have a successful school experience. Reforms that advance this purpose are beneficial; those that undermine or preclude it are misguided at best. We explain the central role of education in children’s lives, the necessity of special education and the nature of it, popular but misanthropic proposals for reform, and needed improvements in special education.

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  1. Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904-4273

    James M. Kauffman & Timothy J. Landrum

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    John W. Jacobson

  2. Department of Pediatrics and Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43205, USA

    James A. Mulick

  3. Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030, USA

    Johannes Rojahn

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Kauffman, J.M., Landrum, T.J. (2007). Educational Service Interventions and Reforms. In: Jacobson, J.W., Mulick, J.A., Rojahn, J. (eds) Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Issues on Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32931-5_9

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