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Farran, Dale C.; Shonkoff, Jack P. – Early Education and Development, 1994
Notes that most special education children are in nonnormative category and that classification of such children as unready for school is based on factors unrelated to education. Argues that children in normative and nonnormative disability categories should be considered ready for regular education and that the readiness concept applied to…
Descriptors: Classification, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria