Defining the World of Special Education

About the Book

This book is designed to help teachers, parents, and students understand and navigate their way intelligently through the ideas, concepts, procedures and programs that are implemented in the education of children and adults with severe disabilities. Special education, vocational, social and physical rehabilitation, are attended by many different disciplines, each with its own vocabulary and viewpoints. Parents, teachers and caregivers are confused by these disparate languages which are also frequently ambiguous. It grew out of notes that were distributed to my students. Items such as autism or dyslexia encountered in readings often gave different, and occasionally conflicting information.

About the Author

Charles Mizzi came to the U S as a teen ager. After serving with the 82 Airborne in WW II, he earned the BA and MS in colleges in N Y State. He began teaching in Special Education in 1950. He has taught various kinds and levels of disabilities in private and public schools, designing and implementing innovative programs as a teacher and as an administrator. His Ed D was earned at Teachers College. He has been married to social anthropologist, Dr Sibyl Mizzi, for fifty two years. They have four married children, eleven grandchildren and one great grandson.