Representation Of Minority Students In Special Education

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The special educational services should consist of experts that have a wide knowledge on reading assessment and instructions. The experts can further collaborate with other professionals to develop interesting and effective reading intervention programs. Principals of all the schools need to lead the team of all these members from the front and facilitate all sorts of collaborative activities (Stallings & Kowalski, 1990).
Together, with the professional developers and teacher educators the school authorities need to judge the strengths and weaknesses of the disabled students. The education authorities can plan their strategies
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