Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities

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Martin Agran, Ph.D., Fredda Brown, Ph.D., Carolyn Hughes, Ph.D., Carol Quirk, Diane Lea Ryndak, Ph.D.

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Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in the lives of people with severe disabilities; explore necessary reforms to policy and practice; and set clear goals and priorities for improving early intervention, education, health care, behavior supports, and social services. Whether used as a textbook or a professional reference, this innovative volume will help usher in a new era of services that support full inclusion and quality of life for people with severe disabilities.

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STOCK NUMBER	ISBN
72704	978-1-59857-270-4
COPYRIGHT	PAGES
2014	448
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What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today—and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in the lives of people with severe disabilities; explore necessary reforms to policy and practice; and set clear goals and priorities for improving early intervention, education, health care, behavior supports, and social services. Whether used as a textbook or a professional reference, this innovative volume will help usher in a new era of services that support full inclusion and quality of life for people with severe disabilities.

COVERS TODAY'S MOST CRITICAL TOPICS:

Addressing inequities in our educational and social services system
Designing and delivering effective early intervention and education
Expanding and improving inclusive education
Supporting families of children with severe disabilities
Resolving challenges to person-centered planning and self-determination
Providing effective and respectful positive behavior supports
Improving access to the general curriculum
Delivering effective literacy instruction to students with severe disabilities
Removing barriers to friendships and social relationships
Supporting students with health care needs in general education classrooms
Promoting access to postsecondary education, employment, and community life
Providing appropriate medical and social services to elderly individuals with severe disabilities

ONLINE COMPANION MATERIALS: This book comes with online PowerPoint slides for faculty, ideal for complementing and enhancing lessons.

About the Online Companion Materials
About the Editors
Contributors
Foreword David L. Westling and Barbara Trader
Preface
Acknowledgments

I Foundations

Disability in the 21st Century: Seeking a Future of Equity and Full Participation
Michael Wehmeyer
Poverty and Disability: Addressing the Ties that Bind
Carolyn Hughes and Latanya L. Fanion
Forty Years of Living and Thriving with Disabilities: Perceptions of a Self-Advocate and Her Family
Michelle Sommerstein, Lynn Sommerstein, Robert Sommerstein, David Sommerstein, and Diane Ryndak
Person-Centered Planning and the Quest for Systems Change
John O'Brien
Promoting Self-Determination and Self-Directed Learning
Martin Agran and Carolyn Hughes
Providing Respectful Behavior Supports
Fredda Brown and Linda M. Bambara

II Children and Youth

Early Intervention and Early Education
Lise Fox, Mary Frances Hanline, Juliann Woods, and Ann Mickelson
Inclusive Education and Meaningful School Outcomes
John McDonnell and Pam Hunt
Literacy and Communication
Susan Copeland, Elizabeth Keefe, and J.S. de Valenzuela
Social Interactions and Friendships
Erik W. Carter, Kristen Bottema-Beutel, and Matthew E. Brock
Access to the General Education Curriculum in General Education Classes
Fred Spooner, Bethany R. McKissick, Melissa E. Hudson, and Diane M. Browder
Serving Students with Health Care Needs
Donna Lehr

III Adult Outcomes

Ensuring Employment Outcomes: Preparing Students for a Working Life
Michael Callahan, John Butterworth, Jane Boone, Ellen Condon, and Richard Luecking
Postsecondary Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
Meg Grigal, Debra Hart, and Cate Weir
Evolving Narratives in Community Living
Lyle T. Romer and Pamela Walker
Serving an Elderly Population
Christine Bigby, Philip McCallion, and Mary McCarron
Medicaid Waivers and Medicare Support: A 21st-Century Perspective
Tom Nerney, Julie Marron, and Mike Head

IV A Look Around and Ahead

Societal Inclusion and Equity Internationally: Initiatives, Illustrations, Challenges, and Recommendations
Diane Ryndak, Deborah S. Reed, Grzegorz Szumski, Ann-Marie Orlando, Joanna Smogorzewska, and Wei Gao
Future Directions and Possibilities
Martha E. Snell and Virginia L. Walker

Index

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Wayne Sailor, Director, SWIFT Center, Beach Center on Disability, University of Kansas

“An excellent, readable book . . . covers the waterfront from early childhood to the elderly, and with the current policy agenda of inclusion coupled with College and Career Readiness, should be a desktop resource for all educators.”

Steven Eidelman, University of Delaware

“Clearly summarizes history, contemporary policy and practice for people experiencing significant disability . . . should be a required text for students interested in working for and with people with disabilities.”

Belva Collins, University of Kentucky

“A book that I will be using in my doctoral seminar to educate faculty of tomorrow in the issues they will be facing in the coming decades . . . It is also a text that can arm persons with severe disabilities and those who advocate for them with the factual information and philosophical underpinnings that they need to effect change.”

Glen Dunlap, University of South Florida and University of Nevada, Reno

“A comprehensive, contemporary and coherent synthesis of the important issues concerning severe disabilities today and for the coming decade . . . simultaneously authoritative and progressive.”

Karrie Shogren, University of Kansas

“The range of topics and depth of analysis make this a must have book for anyone interested in current issues in the field of severe disabilities.”