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Peer reviewedRains, Prudence M.; Kitsuse, John L.; Duster, Troy; Freidson, Eliot – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2003
This reprint of one chapter from the 1975 text, "Issues in the Classification of Children" by Nicholas Hobbs and others, addresses the theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues involved in the "labeling" approach to the sociology of deviance. It examines the social process of classification, the use of classification in social agencies,…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Disabilities, Disability Identification
Peer reviewedWedell, Klaus – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2003
This reprinted paper was originally published in 1981 and addresses issues of classification of children with disabilities in the United Kingdom. It considers several "within-child" and several interactive models in special education and concludes by encouraging the stating of children's special educational needs rather than…
Descriptors: Classification, Definitions, Disabilities, Disability Identification
Download full textVan Sickle, James H.; Witmer, Lightner; Ayres, Leonard P. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
There are many children in attendance in the public schools of the United States who, for one reason or another, cannot work most satisfactorily to themselves or others when classified with the great majority of the children. School authorities have seen for many years that the presence of such children in the regular classes is detrimental to the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Socialization
