This handbook provides a concise overview of special education services in countries across the world, using the Article on Education in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as the analytical frame.

• Provides a comprehensive scope and broad coverage that addresses more than 70 countries, regions, and provinces across virtually every part of the world

• Offers information on each nation or area on the public education system, private education system, special education system, teacher training requirements, and barriers to inclusive and special education

• Presents both information about current practices in special education and promising new trends likely to take hold in the future