TY - BOOK AU - Rao, V. K. TI - Special education SN - 8176484970 AV - LC 3981 .R215 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - New Delhi, India PB - APH Publishing Corporation KW - SPECIAL EDUCATION N1 - Includes index; 1. Origin -- 2. Scope of Special Education -- 3. Aspects of Curriculum -- 4. Communicatively Appropriate Special Education -- 5. Development of Special Education -- 6. Self-concept and Affective Education N2 - The development of special education in terms of conflicting interests and wider social needs, rather than in terms of humanitarian evolution, make it clear that some groups concerned with special education actually have vested interests in structuring debates in particular ways rather than clarifying issues. The debate on integration provides a good example. It is to be expected that special school teachers would like to a structure the debate in terms of the difficulties inherent in the integration of handicapped children into ordinary school life if this would eventually lose them clients ER -