Young Multihandicapped Sensory Impaired Children: Making Educational Decisions

  • Rebecca R. Fewell
  • Betty Carlson
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Abstract

Educational decision making is a process in which parents, educators, and other persons involved in a child’s educational program decide the most appropriate services for the child and how those services should be rendered. The process for making educational decisions for multihandicapped sensory impaired children is the same as that for other children with special needs, except for possible differences in the service options, the instructional perspectives, and to some extent, the content and emphasis of the curriculum.

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Handicapped Child Deaf Child Instructional Program Impaired Child Residential School 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Rebecca R. Fewell
    • 1
  • Betty Carlson
    • 1
  1. 1.University of WashingtonUSA

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