"This volume examines multicultural perspectives on assisting children with disabilities and integrating them into mainstream classrooms.

The result of a series of working sessions held by key policymakers and educators in Mexico and the United States focusing on special education in both countries, Helping Individuals with Disabilities and their Families represent a unique historic event in which the two countries have actively engaged in collaboration with each other to change policy and practice for individuals with disabilities.

The collection emphasizes three themes: the important role of cultural and linguistic diversity in the education of students, the need for continued development of policy and practices that support children with disabilities and their families, and the importance of collaboration in solving the issues and meeting the challenges within and across the two countries."--BOOK JACKET.