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The Gift of the Continuum of Services Part VII: Specialized Schools
While Brown vs. the Board of Education (1954) is right that separate is not equal, separate is not inherently inferior. Having professional experience with different schools for the blind, I can attest to many advantages their blind students have over sighted students attending public schools. These include smaller class sizes, community-based instruction, after-school tutoring, specialized equipment andContinue reading “The Gift of the Continuum of Services Part VII: Specialized Schools”
The Gift of the Continuum of Services
This nine part series expores the benefits and challenges to the opposite ends of the continuum of services for students with disabilities from the perpective of a person with a congenital visual impairment who was educted in inclusive settings but who as a blindness and visual impairment specialist has taught in both inclusive and specializedContinue reading “The Gift of the Continuum of Services”
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