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Vygodskaya, Gita L. – Remedial and Special Education, 1999
This article reviews the life of the educational psychologist, Lev S. Vygotsky, as it affected the development of his ideas about the education of children with disabilities. These ideas include the necessity of considering not only the primary disability but also the secondary, tertiary and subsequent strata affecting the student's learning. (DB)
Descriptors: Biographies, Cognitive Development, Disabilities, Educational Philosophy