This work explores the quadruple disadvantage faced by the parents of poor, minority, handicapped children whose first language is not that of the school that they attend. The author's ethnographic study of 12 low-income Puerto Rican American families serves to illustrate how the present structure of the special education system disempowers parents, excluding them from the decision-making processes that categorise their children as "handicapped" - and ultimately, often place them at a permanent educational disadvantage.
- ISBN10 0807736112
- ISBN13 9780807736111
- Publish Date 1 April 1997 (first published 1 March 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Teachers' College Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 56
- Language English