02143nam a2200289 a 4500 10 66070 66070 vtls000069367 MTX 160715s2011 001 0 eng d 0226630005 0226630013 9780226630007 9780226630014 9780226630021 201607151117 staff 1 STAFF MATRIX 201306272317 VLOAD eng 371.9 Ebook Colin Ong-Dean. 19201 Distinguishing disability: parents, privilege, and special education/ [electronic resource] Distinguishing disability/Colin Ong-Dean. University of Chicago Press, 2009. Students in special education programs can have widely divergent experiences. For some, special education amounts to a dumping ground where schools unload their problem students, while for others, it provides access to services and accommodations that drastically improve chances of succeeding in school and beyond. Distinguishing Disability argues that this inequity in treatment is directly linked to the disparity in resources possessed by the students parents. Since the mid-1970s, federal law has empowered parents of public school children to intervene in virtually every aspect of the decision making involved in special education. However, Colin Ong-Dean reveals that this power is generally available only to those parents with the money, educational background, and confidence needed to make effective claims about their childrens disabilities and related needs. Ong-Dean documents this class divide by examining a wealth of evidence, including historic rates of learning disability diagnosis, court decisions, and advice literature for parents of disabled children. In an era of expanding special education enrollment, Distinguishing Disability is a timely analysis of the way this expansion has created new kinds of inequality. Children with disabilities 19202 Special education 8512 http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/UCHIB0000696.html