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As a kid, I remember listening wide-eyed to my grandmother tell me about the “Dummy Room.” The Dummy Room was one of her first assignments as a young teacher in small-town Iowa in the 1930s. Like other Dummy Rooms across the country, it was the dumping ground for the school district’s hard cases.

During the fourth week of school, the form came home, stuffed into my daughter’s backpack: Your student scored a XX on his/her DIBELS literacy test, administered this Fall/Summer. Based on this score, your child will be placed in Open Court Level XYZ [with] TEACHER A...

In fiction, children with disabilities are often still segregated, labeled, lonely and lost. These titles will help bring your school’s library into the age of inclusion.

Jackie Brown prided herself on teaching her students about disabilities. But could she confront her own feelings about her mother and polio?

Students with learning disabilities create a documentary film to share their wisdom.

A child's ADHD diagnosis raises one parent's concerns about the stereotypes that too often surround the disorder.

Innovative social inclusion programs are reducing the social isolation of students with disabilities, ending harassment and stereotyping, and improving life opportunities.

The needs of limited English proficiency students put special education assessment to the test.

Do children's books distort the truth of Helen Keller's life?

Two New Mexico classrooms learn the fine art of living with Tourette Syndrome.