# Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities

A Vision for the Future

[Martin Agran, Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=17489&Name=Martin+Agran,Ph.D.), [Fredda Brown, Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=17490&Name=Fredda+Brown,Ph.D.), [Carolyn Hughes, Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=3019&Name=Carolyn+Hughes,Ph.D.), [Carol Quirk](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=17491&Name=Carol+Quirk), [Diane Lea Ryndak, Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_Contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=1661&Name=Diane+Ryndak,Ph.D.)

Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities across the lifespan. Readers will fully examine more than a dozen critical topics in the lives of people with severe disabilities; explore necessary reforms to policy and practice; and set clear goals and priorities for improving early intervention, education, health care, behavior supports, and social services. Whether used as a textbook or a professional reference, this innovative volume will help usher in a new era of services that support full inclusion and quality of life for people with severe disabilities.

COVERS TODAY'S MOST CRITICAL TOPICS:

- Addressing inequities in our educational and social services system  
- Designing and delivering effective early intervention and education  
- Expanding and improving inclusive education  
- Supporting families of children with severe disabilities  
- Resolving challenges to person-centered planning and self-determination  
- Providing effective and respectful positive behavior supports  
- Improving access to the general curriculum  
- Delivering effective literacy instruction to students with severe disabilities  
- Removing barriers to friendships and social relationships  
- Supporting students with health care needs in general education classrooms  
- Promoting access to postsecondary education, employment, and community life  
- Providing appropriate medical and social services to elderly individuals with severe disabilities

**ONLINE COMPANION MATERIALS:** This book comes with online PowerPoint slides for faculty, ideal for complementing and enhancing lessons.

## Reviews

Wayne Sailor, Director, SWIFT Center, Beach Center on Disability, University of Kansas - September 23, 2013  
“An excellent, readable book . . . covers the waterfront from early childhood to the elderly, and with the current policy agenda of inclusion coupled with College and Career Readiness, should be a desktop resource for all educators.”

Steven Eidelman, University of Delaware - September 23, 2013  
“Clearly summarizes history, contemporary policy and practice for people experiencing significant disability . . . should be a required text for students interested in working for and with people with disabilities.”

Belva Collins, University of Kentucky - September 14, 2013  
“A book that I will be using in my doctoral seminar to educate faculty of tomorrow in the issues they will be facing in the coming decades . . . It is also a text that can arm persons with severe disabilities and those who advocate for them with the factual information and philosophical underpinnings that they need to effect change.”

Glen Dunlap, University of South Florida and University of Nevada, Reno - September 13, 2013  
“A comprehensive, contemporary and coherent synthesis of the important issues concerning severe disabilities today and for the coming decade . . . simultaneously authoritative and progressive.”

Karrie Shogren, University of Kansas - September 9, 2013  
“The range of topics and depth of analysis make this a must have book for anyone interested in current issues in the field of severe disabilities.”

Volume Editors: [Martin Agran Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=17489&Name=Martin+Agran+Ph.D.), [Fredda Brown Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=17490&Name=Fredda+Brown+Ph.D.), [Carolyn Hughes Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=3019&Name=Carolyn+Hughes+Ph.D.), [Carol Quirk](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=17491&Name=Carol+Quirk), [Diane Lea Ryndak Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=1661&Name=Diane+Lea+Ryndak+Ph.D.)

**Read a blog post**

[18 Things Authentically Inclusive Schools Do](https://blog.brookespublishing.com/18-things-authentically-inclusive-schools-do/)

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- PowerPoint presentations to accompany each chapter  
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