Volume 20, Number 1

Symposium: Keeping the Needs of Students with Disabilities on the Agenda: Current Issues in Special Education Advocacy

ARTICLES:

Who’s the Boss?: The Need for Thoughtful Identification of the Client(s) in Special Education Cases
Yael Zakai Cannon

The Learning Disability Mess
Ruth Colker

How IDEA Fails Families Without Means: Causes and Corrections From the Frontlines of Special Education
Elisa Hyman
Dean Hill Rivkin
Stephen A. Rosenbaum

The Gestalt of the School-to-Prison Pipeline: The Duality of Overrepresentation of Minorities in Special Education and Racial Disparity in School Discipline on Minorities
Torin D. Togut

Racial Perspectives on Eligibility for Special Education for Students of Color Who are Struggling, is Special Education a Potential Evil or a Potential Good?
Jonathan Feldman

Integrating Education Advocacy Into Child Welfare Practice: Working Models
Jennifer N. Rosen Valverde
Cara Chambers
Megan Blamble Dho
Regina Schaefer

Empower Special Education Clients Through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Lessons Learned for Current Clients and Future Professionals
Patricia E. Roberts
Kelly Whalon

COMMENTS:

Birthing Barbarism: The Unconstitutionality of Shackling Pregnant Prisoners
Claire Louise Griggs

Obligation Ignored: Why International Law Requires the United States to Provide Adequate Civil Legal Aid, What the United States is Doing Instead, and How Legal Empowerment Can Help
Zachary H. Zarnow