For Introduction to Special Education, Early Childhood Special Education courses, and Early Childhood Intervention courses. As the only volume in the field to provide in-depth treatment of early childhood special education, this edited text offers broad-based coverage of all aspects of special education for the young from a theoretical-developmental perspective. Significant attention is paid to core issues--special education's historical foundations, the growth and development of the discipline, working with families, assessment and intervention, and the use of technology. The authors provide an exceptionally thorough discussion of how children develop and what can go wrong while giving future special education teachers a solid knowledge-content-applications approach from which to teach children with special needs from birth to 5 years old.