Researchers from University of Virginia Provide Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of Pediatrics (Creeping Normality: Special Education’s Problem of a New Normal): Pediatrics

2024 JUL 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Education Daily Report -- Current study results on Pediatrics have been published. According to news reporting originating from Charlottesville, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Many alternative opinions about how best to respond educationally to the reality of human diversity in abilities are possible.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Virginia, “Opinions and rhetoric now dominant seem to us inimical to a thriving, vibrant, effective special education. We see trends in concepts or ideas, policies, and publications that we believe could lead slowly but inevitably to special education’s diminishment and eventual demise.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We describe what could become the ‘new normal’ through the process of ‘creeping normalization’ and suggest seven alternative propositions that we wish to see affirmed by professional associations and policy-making organizations.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Creeping Normality: Special Education’s Problem of a New Normal. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2024;34(4):250-259. Journal of Disability Policy Studies can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Journal of Disability Policy Studies - dps.sagepub.com)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting James M. Kauffman, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States. Additional authors for this research include Daniel P. Hallahan and Paige C. Pullen.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073221128910. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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