Description: Provides practical guidance for educators, rehabilitation counselors, school counselors and nurses, parent advocates, and other professionals and stakeholders in creating legal and welcoming policies, procedures, and practices for service and emotional support animals in schoo...
Brief description: David F. Bateman, PhD, is a Special Education Consultant, and Professor Emeritus at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He is a former due process hearing officer for Pennsylvania for hundreds of hearings. He uses his knowledge of litigation relating to special education to assist school districts in providing appropriate supports for students with disabilities and to prevent and to recover from due process hearings. He has been a classroom teacher of students with learning disabilities, behavior disorders, intellectual disability, and hearing impairments, and a building administrator. Dr. Bateman earned a PhD in special education from the University of Kansas. Over the past 28 years he has either been a hearing officer or consultant on over 1,005 special education lawsuits. He frequently is a keynote presenter at principal and administrator conferences. He has recently co-authored the following books: A Principal's Guide to Special Education, A Teacher's Guide to Special Education, Charting the Course: Special Education in Charter Schools, Special Education Leadership: Building Effective Programming in Schools, Current Trends and Legal Issues in Special Education, and A School Board Members Guide to Special Education. He has also recently worked as the neutral fact-finder in the class action lawsuit involving the Oregon Department of Education. After the 2017 Supreme Court decision in Endrew F., the U.S. Department of Education reached out to him to develop a training module for administrators on legally compliant IEPs. He is co-author of the special education legal blog: SPEDLAWBLOG.com
Review Quotes:
"A comprehensive look at an important subject, and a great reference to integrate into special education settings." --Janice Albright, University of Southern Maine
"This book is essential reading. All personnel associated with the school system should be familiar with the various aspects of service animals in schools--they are a vital part of the lives of the children they serve, and understanding their role is key to keeping a successful learning environment." --Debby Kay, instructor and service dog evaluator "Balancing both legal and special education jargon, the authors write in a way that is clear and understandable to the novice reader, but also to those with a background in special education law." --David Hill, University of Michigan, Dearborn "This is an invaluable resource and serves to clarify legal requirements as well as provide tips in addressing questions and logistics posed by educators, parents, students, and administration in a typically very murky area of disability accommodation." --Kelly Jerome, MS, LCMHCA, NCC, CRC, CCTP, AAT-I, Board Certified Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate specializing in Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy "As service animals become increasingly common, this is an important topic for educators and administrators." --Jennifer D. Walker, University of Mary Washington "Papalia, Ewoldt, and Bateman's Service Animals in Schools: A Comprehensive Guide for Administrators, Teachers, Parents, and Studentsis a valuable and user-friendly resource for service animal trainers, academics, and lay people. It provides school personnel, students, and parents the tools they need to understand the benefits of the well-trained service animal, the definitions and laws that govern and protect all those who use a service animal in the school setting, and especially how to advocate for the service animal handler and animal. The service animal world is often misunderstood and misrepresented; the contents of this book should be incorporated into and associated with required in-service training in all school settings wishing to provide an equitable and social justice-centered approach to education." --Stacie S. McGee, LMSW-IPR, Texas State University School of Social Work "Service Animals in Schools provides a much-needed, easy-to-read historical and legal understanding of service animals, and a critical overview of what is and is not a service animal. This book includes highly pragmatic suggestions when working through the weeds of services animals as allowable under IDEA, 504, and in transition to post-secondary education or work. A handy desktop resource for educators, administrators, and parents." --Cynthia Dieterich, Baldwin Wallace University