1st Edition
Television and the Exceptional Child A Forgotten Audience
Biography
Authored by Sprafkin, Joyce; Gadow, Kenneth D.; Abelman, Robert
"...the authors have provided an important resource for scholars and students of communication, child development, education, and psychology, as well as for educators, parents, and caregivers of exceptional children....More than a compilation of research findings, the authors provide a compact reference. In addition, by generating theories on the meanings of these results, they have built a solid springboard for further research."
—Journal of Communication"This volume is a welcome foil to the television sound bite. It represents the kind of careful review and balanced interpretation of empirical evidence that we virtually never see on screen and too seldom see in print. The authors summarize what we know about how intellectual giftedness, mental retardation, emotional disturbance, and learning disability are related to television viewing and to these exceptional children's interpretations of what they watch. But they go beyond describing the potentially troubling effects of television to suggest how it might be turned to the benefit of these children, including how adults might mediate existing programming and how the medium might be made more appropriately instructive."
—James M. Kaufman
from the Foreword
