Education of Exceptional Children : Challenges and Strategies

Contents: Preface. 1. Exceptional children. 2. Visually handicapped individuals. 3. Aurally handicapped children or deaf and hard of hearing individuals. 4. Orthopaedically and other health impaired individuals. 5. Speech impaired children. 6. Learning-disabled children. 7. Emotionally disturbed children. 8. Disadvantaged children. 9. Backward children. 10. Delinquent children. 11. Mental retardation. 12. Gifted children. 13. Creative learners. 14. Disorders of childhood and adolescences. 15. Anti-social personality disorder. 16. Internalizing disorders. 17. Eating disorders. 18. Behavioral problems. 19. Special and integrated education. Index.

From the Preface: "In planning this book, author has tried to capture the essence of exceptional learners and has presented it in a way that shows its diversity and complexity while striving to retain the readability and high interest level of the readers. All the chapters have been dealt in a very cogent and lucid manner. Language used is very simple and easy to be understood. It has also been kept in mind that the book may prove trustworthy, friend, philosopher and guide to all those who are interested in acquainting themselves adequately and educating exceptional learners. The exhaustive material will help to actualize and visualize the problems of exceptional children.

Author incorporated the following framework for unification of exceptional learners:

Flexibility uniqueness: It concerns the visually handicapped, deaf and hard of hearing, orthopaedically and other health impaired children.
Social uniqueness: It refers to emotionally disturbed, speech impaired, eating disorders, antisocial personality, behaviour problems and disadvantaged children.    
Intellectually uniqueness: It focuses on the learning disabled, mentally retarded, gifted and backward children."