The Medicalization of America's Schools Challenging the Concept of Educational Disabilities /

• Main Author: Macht, Joel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; Educational Psychology.

This book challenges the validity of ADHD, learning disabilities, and dyslexia as meaningful special education categories, while it critically examines the misplaced medical model from which they’re derived. The book asserts that the presumption that these disabilities cause school-related problems...