Foreword - Geneva Gay
Preface
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Part I: Foundations of Educational Change
1. School Accountability and Reform: Implications and African
Americans With Exceptionalities - Festus E. Obiakor and Bridgie
Alexis Ford
2. Legal Foundations of Special Education for African American
Learners - Elizabeth A. Dooley and Katherine L. Dooley
3. Functionalizing Assessment for African American Learners in
General and Special Education Programs - Cheryl A. Utley
4. Categorization: Impact on African American Learners With
Exceptionalities - Angela Stephens McIntosh
Part II: Managing Learning Environments
5. Instructional Strategies for African American Learners With
Cognitive Disabilities - Helen Bessant Byrd
6. Working With African American Students With Specific Learning
Disabilities - Patrick A. Grant and Pauline B. Grant
7. Interventions for African American Learners With Behavioral
Problems - Cathy Kea, Gwendolyn Cartledge, and Lisa J. Bowman
8. Maximizing the Learning Potential of African American Learners
With Gifts and Talents - Vera I. Daniels
9. Communication Skills of African American Learners With
Disabilities - Martha Scott Lue, Cheryl Evans Green, and Shelia
Yvette Smalley
10. Developing Self-Empowerment in African American Learners With
Special Problems - Festus E. Obiakor
Part III: Complementing the School Environment
11. Service Delivery for African American Young Children With
Special Needs - Regina Enwefa and Stephen Enwefa
12. African American Families: Equal Partners in General and
Special Education - Loretta P. Prater
13. African American Community Resources: Essential Educational
Enhancers for African American Children and Youth - Bridgie Alexis
Ford
14. Transitioning African American High School Students With
Disabilities - Bertina H. Combes and Beth A. Durodoye
15. Teacher-Preparation for African American Exceptional Learners:
A Cultural-Historical Approach - Stanley C. Trent
16. Culturally Responsive Leadership for African Americans With
Exceptionalities - Darrell L. Williams, Christlyn
Frederick-Stanley, and Adell Fair
17. Summary of Comments: Race, Class, Gender, and Exceptionality of
African American Learners - Edgar G. Epps
Index
Festus E. Obiakor, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Manager, Sunny Educational Consulting, Shorewood, Wisconsin. He has served as Department Head and Professor, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia and The City College of New York, New York. A teacher, scholar, leader, and consultant, he has served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at a variety of universities. He is the author of more than 150 publications, including books, articles, and commentaries; and he has presented papers at many national and international conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of reputable nationally and internationally refereed journals, including Multicultural Learning and Teaching (MLT) in which he serves as Executive Editor. Dr. Obiakor is a leader who has been involved in many landmark scholarly works in the fields of general and special education, with particular focus on African American and other culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners and he continues to prescribe multidimensional methods of assessment, teaching, and intervention for these individuals. Based on this premise, Dr. Obiakor created the Comprehensive Support Model (CSM), an intervention model that values the collaborative, consultative, and cooperative energies of students, families, teachers/service providers, communities, and government agencies.
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