Current and emerging trends that impact upon special education world wide are reviewed. These trends focus on prevention and research, normalization, community based service systems, parental rights, consumer advocacy, home training, curative approaches, and cost/service benefits. Coalitions of professional organizations are suggested as a means of meeting the challenge of international issues that face those individuals and communities involved in providing services to handicapped and gifted children.
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