Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter1. Overview of today's special education -- Chapter2. Ensuring progress in the general education curriculum: universal design for learning and inclusion -- Chapter3. Today's multicultural, bilingual, and diverse schools -- Chapter4. Today's families and their partnerships with professionals -- Chapter5. Understanding students with learning disabilities -- Chapter6. Understanding students with communication disorders -- Chapter7. Understanding students with emotional or behavioral disorders -- Chapter8. Understanding students with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Chapter9. Understanding students with intellectual disability -- Chapter10. Understanding students with autism -- Chapter11. Understanding students with multiple disabilities -- Chapter12. Understanding students with physical disabilities and other health impairments -- Chapter13. Understanding students with traumatic brain injury -- Chapter14. Understanding students with hearing loss -- Chapter15. Understanding students with visual impairments, including blindness -- Chapter16. Understanding students who are gifted and talented