The medicalization of America's schools : challenging the concept of educational disabilities /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Macht, Joel
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Subjects:	Children with disabilities > Education (Elementary) > United States. Drugs > Administration. School health services. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""List of Boxes""; ""Chapter 1: From Educational Differences to Educational Disabilities""; ""A Special School, Denver, CO""; ""The New Children, Circa 1970s""; ""Chapter 2: Disability Identification: The Naming Is Explaining Game""; ""Education's Medical Model""; ""October 1957""; ""Rising Standards20""; ""Chapter 3: Learning Disabilities""; ""Curriculum Rigor Mortis""; ""Chicago, 1963""; ""Numbers ""; ""LD Identification""; ""Innate Intelligence""; ""An Inconclusive Disability""; ""Pneumonia""; ""Learning Disability""; ""Cause""; ""Dyslexia""
""Epilogue""""Chapter 4: ADHD""; ""ADHD: TheÂ Name""; ""Omaha, Nebraska""; ""Historic ADHD""; ""Context""; ""The Medical Model's ADHD""; ""Definition""; ""DISORDER""; ""Cause""; ""ADHD: Neurology""; ""MBD117 ""; ""ADHD: Genes""; ""Enlisting Evaluators""; ""A Confirmable Disorder""; ""John Langdon Down""; ""Diagnostics""; ""Confirming ADHD""; ""The Pivotal Flaw""; ""Rating Behaviors""; ""The DSM""; ""THE DSM'S GRADE: "F"""; ""Standards""; ""Clinical Judgment""; ""The Paradox""; ""Beyond Diagnosis""; ""Medication: The Inevitable Dilemma""; ""Schools""
""Chapter 5: Active Intervention""""Beyond Names""; ""Name Writing""; ""A Proper Mindset""; ""Chapter 6: Diversity and the Common Core""; ""Standards and Diversity""; ""Concerns""; ""Words""; ""Rigid Standards, Diverse Students""