With its cutting-edge online e-book and interactive learning opportunities, college faculty will find this Fourth Edition an exciting new approach to teaching the introductory course in special education. In addition to providing students with a wide array of enrichment resources, self-assessments, activities, and case studies, the online e-book is an interactive version with embedded icons that allow students to access relevant supplements. Students can link back and forth between the content of each chapter and the desired special feature. Designed for both traditional certification programs and alternative programs, such as in-service training, this new edition carries the most current information on inclusive classrooms, transition, diversity, collaboration, and much more. Both the paperback and the online e-book have been designed to fit the needs of college professors and students as well as the staff development needs in the beginning and continued study of special education.