TY - BOOK AU - Mutua,Kagendo AU - Sunal,Cynthia S. TI - Advances in research and praxis in special education in Africa, Caribbean, and the Middle East T2 - Research on education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East SN - 9781617357718 (pbk.) : AV - LC4038.A2 A38 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - North Carolina, NC PB - Information Age Publishing Inc. KW - Children with disabilities KW - Education KW - Research KW - Africa KW - Caribbean Area KW - Middle East KW - Education and state N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction; The limits of policy and praxis : critical issues in inclusive education in selected countries of Africa, Caribbean and the Middle East; Kagendo Mutua and Cynthia Szymanski Sunal --; Early intervention programs in the Southern African region; John Charema --; Special education in Nigeria : shifting paradigms; Festus E. Obiakor, Michael Eskay, Michael O. Afọláyan --; Challenges facing pupils and staff at Botswana community junior secondary : schools the student teachers' perspective; Gareth Dart --; Rapid changes and challenges in a South African paradigm; Joan Jafthas --; Education for students with intellectual disabilities in Kenya : challenges and prospects; Gathogo Mukuria --; Contextualizing inclusive education in Tanzania; Filiz Polat --; Defining the disabled person : an analysis of the Continental Plan of Action for the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities; Bethsaida Nieves --; Special education in the Caribbean : teachers' attitudes toward inclusion in Barbados, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent; Junnie O. Lynch, Clara Wolman, Judy Harris-Looby --; Children with ADHD in Turkey : inclusion, research, and practice; Selda Ozdemir --; Special education advances in the State of Qatar : research and implications; Asma Al Attiyah, Brenda Belson Lazarus --; Current special education programs in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Mohammed AL Jabery, Jamal AL Khateeb, Marshall Zumberg --; The Saudi early intervention services : current challenges and the vision for revision; Haniah M. Merza --; Epilogue; Mara Sapon-Shevin ER -