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The Medicalization of America's Schools: Challenging the Concept of Educational Disabilities

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This book challenges the validity of ADHD, learning disabilities, and dyslexia as meaningful special education "categories" and critically examines the misplaced medical model from which they are derived. The presumption that these disabilities cause school-related problems detracts from identifying factors within the classroom that create and maintain a child's underachievement and disruptive behavior. Moreover, when the disability is finally named, it provides no functional information that translates into effective ...

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The Medicalization of America's Schools: Challenging the Concept of Educational Disabilities 2018, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham

ISBN-13: 9783319874432

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The Medicalization of America's Schools: Challenging the Concept of Educational Disabilities 2017, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham

ISBN-13: 9783319629735

2017 edition

Hardcover