SPECIAL EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES: PRACTICES ACROSS THE GLOBE
ADVANCES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
Series Editor: Anthony F. Rotatori
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ADVANCES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION VOLUME 28
SPECIAL EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES: PRACTICES ACROSS THE GLOBE
EDITED BY
ANTHONY F. ROTATORI
Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL, USA
JEFFREY P. BAKKEN
Bradley University, Peoria, IL, USA
SANDRA BURKHARDT
Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL, USA
FESTUS E. OBIAKOR
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, USA
UMESH SHARMA
Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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CONTENTS
James M. Kauffman, Shanna Eisner Hirsch, Jeanmarie Badar, Andrew L. Wiley and Brian R. Barber
Tim Loreman
Ismael Garca-Cedillo, Silvia Romero-Contreras and Todd V. Fletcher
Diane Rodriguez, Kenneth J. Luterbach and Rocio Espinosa de Gaitan
Ron Smith, Lani Florian, Martyn Rouse and John Anderson
Shaila Rao, Cristina M. Cardona and Esther Chiner
Rune Sarrormaa Hausstatter and Harald Thuen
Girma Berhanu
Judith Hollenweger
Gretar L. Marinsson and Dra S. Bjarnason
Alla Kolupayeva, Oksana Taranchenko and Elyana Danilavichute
Iuliia Korolkova
Festus E. Obiakor and C. Jonah Eleweke
Sigamoney Naicker
Ahmed Bawa Kuyini
Hagit Ari-Am and Thomas P. Gumpel
Turki A. Alquraini
Macid Ayhan Melekolu
Ajay Das and Rina Shah
Md. Saiful Malak
Umesh Sharma
Garry Hornby
Mian Wang and Yajing Feng
Kullaya Kosuwan, Yuwadee Viriyangkura and Mark E. Swerdlik
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Turki A. Alquraini | Department of Special Education, King Saudi University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
John Anderson | School of Education, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK |
Hagit Ari-Am | Department of Special Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel |
Jeanmarie Badar | Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
Brian R. Barber | Department of Special Education, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA |
Girma Berhanu | Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden |
Dra S. Bjarnason | Department of Inclusive Education, Iceland University, Reykjavik, Iceland |
Cristina M. Cardona | Department of Health Psychology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain |
Esther Chiner | Department of Health Psychology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain |
Elyana Danilavichute | Institute of Special Pedagogy of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine |
Ajay Das | Department of Special Education, Murray State University, Murray, KY, USA |
C. Jonah Eleweke | Department of World Languages and Literatures, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA |
Rocio Espinosa de Gaitan | Ministry of Education, Guatemala City, Guatemala |
Yajing Feng | Department of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China |
Todd V. Fletcher | Department of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA |
Lani Florian | Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK |
Ismael Garca-Cedillo | Graduate School of Psychology, Universidad Autnoma de San Luis Potos, Mxico |