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Understanding Learners, Law, and Inclusive Practice
Connect learner dignity with competent, inclusive educational practice.
Survey of the Exceptional Child introduces future educators to exceptionality, inclusive practice, family partnerships, and the educational responsibilities that surround support for children and adolescents.
Read the full descriptionSeeing the learner before the label requires both care and professional preparation.
Survey of the Exceptional Child introduces future educators to exceptionality, inclusive practice, family partnerships, and the educational responsibilities that surround support for children and adolescents. The traditional course title is retained, while the text uses contemporary, strengths-aware disability language.
Research-informed explanation, fictional composite cases, Christian reflection, and classroom applications support a disciplined approach to observation. The recurring moves—Notice, Interpret, Include, and Wonder—help readers separate evidence from assumption and consider whose perspective is still missing. Field-study interludes and supporting reference material connect course learning with practice.
Designed for Christian teacher-education settings, this text treats every learner as a participant with dignity rather than a problem to manage. It provides an educational foundation, not individualized legal, medical, or diagnostic advice; current requirements and learner-specific decisions require appropriate professional verification.
History, models of disability, identification, legal rights, and educational access
Families, collaboration, Universal Design for Learning, and student voice
Learning, health, emotional, behavioral, autism, and communication needs
Low-incidence disabilities, giftedness, and twice-exceptionality
Composite cases, field-study interludes, and inclusive-practice resources
Christian college teacher candidates, special educators, and school leaders.
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Dr. R. C. Titus is an author, researcher, and educator whose work explores whole-person formation, educational psychology, emotional intelligence, and the ways learning shapes who people are becoming. As Director of the SNU Lab School and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Southern Nazarene University, he brings together research, educational practice, and Christian formation to help educators and leaders cultivate environments where people can grow in wisdom, character, belonging, and purpose.
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