It is now widely believed in many Western countries that the segregation of students with special educational needs is problematic. Consequently, there has been a general move towards integrating special and regular education into one system that caters to a much wider range of students.

New Perspectives in Special Education evaluates the varied results in the hope that teachers and other professionals may be able to profit from each other's experiences. The book provides both quantitative and qualitative information, analyzing the similarities and differences between integration practices in six Western countries: the US, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, England and Wales and the Netherlands.