Every child with an exceptionality has a story. Special Education in Canada uses a unique case-study approach to help Canadian teachers understand how to create exemplary learning environments for students with exceptionalities. Six true case studies "tell the story" of students with high incidence exceptionalities, providing context for learning theory. Each case study chapter presents actual examples from the student's school files, such as test results, IEPs, and reports by teachers, school psychologists, and parents. Special Education in Canada provides practical information that will translate to real Canadian classroom situations!

Featuring leading voices in the field from across Canada and Europe, this edited collection offers empirical analyses of the historical, social, cultural, and legislative determinants of inclusive education in Canadian schools. Covering four thematic areas including the structure, culture, and practices of inclusive education, the volume offers comparative insights from a European perspective, engaging critically with widely held views of Canada as a world leader in inclusive education. Providing rich comparisons with educational systems in Germany, Spain, and Finland, chapters explore in-depth the assessment structures and curricula specific to Canada, as well as educational policy, and explore attitudes and practices in relation to diverse student populations, including refugee and indigenous peoples, and students with special educational needs. This volume will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in multicultural education, international and comparative education, as well as educational policy more specifically. Those involved with inclusion and special educational needs will also benefit from this volume.

In A Class by Themselves?, Jason Ellis provides an erudite and balanced history of special needs education, an early twentieth century educational innovation that continues to polarize school communities across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Ellis situates the evolution of this educational innovation in its proper historical context to explore the rise of intelligence testing, the decline of child labour and rise of vocational guidance, emerging trends in mental hygiene and child psychology, and the implementation of a new progressive curriculum. At the core of this study are the students. This book is the first to draw deeply on rich archival sources, including 1000 pupil records of young people with learning difficulties, who attended public schools between 1918 and 1945. Ellis uses these records to retell individual stories that illuminate how disability filtered down through the school system's many nooks and crannies to mark disabled students as different from (and often inferior to) other school children. A Class by Themselves? sheds new light on these and other issues by bringing special education's curious past to bear on its constantly contested present.

This title is only available as a loose-leaf version with Pearson eText, or an electronic book. Now in its fourth edition, Inclusion of Exceptional Learners in Canadian Schools is an outstanding introduction to inclusive education in Canada. In keeping with Canada's commitment to inclusive education, this text examines positive ways of including children of all needs and abilities in the regular classroom. Author and educator, Nancy Hutchinson draws on her extensive experience educating students to help shape the skills and strategies future teachers need to create an inclusive classroom by individualizing learning for each student regardless of their exceptionality. The fourth edition is updated to include new information on legislation and provides new strategies for differentiating learning for Aboriginal students; culturally diverse students; English language learners; and students at risk for a variety of reasons, including poverty, abuse, and divorce. It provides teacher candidates with instructional approaches, approaches using universal design for learning, and differentiating assessment using examples from a range of grades, exceptionalities, and teaching subjects.

Inclusion in Early Childhood Setting has been written to introduce the early childhood educator to working with children with special needs. It focuses on dispelling biases and creating excitement about working with children with special needs, and will provide students with an active approach to organizing an inclusive child care environment, with specific guidelines for setting up inclusive environments to foster communication, play, positive interactions, motor activities, and social, emotional and cognitive growth.