This volume will provide a compilation of research syntheses of key areas in special education & will serve as a handbook of critical findings in special ed, as well as a grad level text. It will appeal to both special & general education professionals.< "Some of the research syntheses presented in this volume, conducted by some of the nation's most prominent special education researchers, are certain to be of great interest...this volume makes an important contribution to the field of special education and provides important information to those contemplating studying or undertaking research synthesis."—Contemporary Psychology