Absurdities and Realities of Special Education
Absurdities and Realities of Special Education: The University of Vermont Center for Digital Initiatives Collection is a complete set of all of the cartoons created by Michael Giangreco with the assistance of the artist Kevin Ruelle. This includes a total of 335 cartoons from four previously published books and searchable CD that went "out of print" in 2019 and a few newer cartoons. Michael Giangreco created the original ideas, text, and sketches for each cartoon and Kevin Ruelle redrew the sketches.
The cartoons in the first three books all were originally in black and white. That was a conscious decision, both for aesthetic and practical reasons. The cartoons were designed to be easily copied on to overhead transparencies for display in classes, workshops, and other learning environments. A group called Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) requested permission to use one of the cartoons on the cover of their magazine and subsequently colorized it. Prompted by Giangreco’s colleagues associated with ALLFIE, Giangreco and Ruelle began to colorize the rest of the images. In this complete digital collection, we have included a total of 335 different digital images; including the 315 different cartoons from the four earlier books, 12 cartoons that were on the CD only, and eight that were not included in any of the previously published books or CD.
Cartoons from the early books have found their way on to the pages of many newsletters disseminated by schools, parent groups, disability advocacy organizations, and professional associations. They have appeared in books, manuals, and journals; a few were even published in a law journal. The cartoons have been used extensively as projected slides or within learning activities in college classes, at conferences, in workshops, and at other meetings. Parents have framed cartoons that closely reflected their own experiences and hung them in their homes or offices. Other parents have used them in meetings with professionals to help get their points across. They have been given as gifts to people who "get it" and handed out as door prizes. The Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights used them as part of "Disability Awareness Day" at the Vermont legislature. The cartoons can be used in innumerable creative ways.
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35 Special education.
17 Inclusive education.
15 Teachers.
12 Supports.
11 Parents.
10 Exclusion.
10 Related services.
9 Administrator.
9 IEP.
9 Meetings.
7 Placement.
7 Special educators.
7 Teamwork.
6 Collaboration.
5 Paraprofessionals
5 Students.
5 Wheelchair.
4 Assessment.
4 Caseload.
4 Disabilities.
4 Service delivery.
4 Teacher.
4 Teaching.
4 Testing.
3 Behavior.
3 Due process.
3 Occupational therapy.
3 Physical therapy.
3 Planning.
2 Access.
2 Adjustment.
2 Assistant
2 Bathroom.
2 Chairs.
2 Classroom.
2 Communication.
2 Confusion.
2 Door.
2 Hat.
2 Humor.
2 Inservice.
2 Literature.
2 Math.
2 Mountain.
2 Paperwork.
2 Peace.
2 Phone.
2 Psychotherapy.
2 Reading.
2 Rules.
2 Safety.
2 Service Delivery
2 Shadow
2 Special Education
2 Standards.
1 ADA.
1 Accommodations.
1 Administrator
1 Advocate.
1 Afraid.
1 After.
1 Agenda.
1 Airlift.
1 Army.
1 Artistic.
1 Attitudes.
1 Authentic.
1 Autistic.
1 Automation.
1 Award.
1 Backwards.
1 Balloons.
1 Balls.
1 Banned.
1 Barbells.
1 Beards.
1 Bears.
1 Bed.
1 Bedroom.
1 Before.
1 Bending.
1 Bicycle.
1 Bird.
1 Biting fingernails.
1 Blindfold.
1 Blindness.
1 Bones.
1 Book club.
1 Bookshelf.
1 Boxes.
1 Brakes.
1 Breakdown.
1 Breathe.
1 Burger Barn
1 Calculator.
1 Calendar.
1 Caliper.
1 Cap.
1 Car.
1 Cardboard.
1 Caricatures and cartoons.
1 Cartoons.
1 Catalogue.
1 Categories.
1 Caveman.
1 Cellar.
1 Chalkboard.
1 Chronic shopping syndrome.
1 Chronological age-appropriateness.
1 Citation.
1 Classics.
1 Clouds.
1 Co-workers
1 Coffee.
1 Color blind.
1 Committee.
1 Compliance.
1 Comprehensive.
1 Conditions.
1 Continuum.
1 Controversial.
1 Cooking.
1 Corporal punishment.
1 Corporate.
1 Cotton.
1 Counterfeit.
1 Crash.
1 Crazy.
1 Creating.
1 Creative problem solving.
1 Crutches.
1 Crystal ball.
1 Culturally-biased.
1 Curriculum.
1 Darts.
1 Data.
1 Dedicated.
1 Dieting.
1 Differences.
1 Dinosaur.
1 Diploma.
1 Distracting.
1 Dream.
1 Dreams.
1 Dry heat.
1 Eagle.
1 Eat.
1 Educational.
1 Eggs.
1 Elephant.
1 Equipment.
1 Evolution.
1 Excellence.
1 Exceptions.
1 Excessive.
1 Experiment.
1 Extreme.
1 Eyes.
1 Fall.
1 Family-centered.
1 Fear.
1 Feet.
1 Fetish.
1 Files.
1 Fire extinguisher.
1 Fire.
1 Flag.
1 Flying.
1 Follically impairfed.
1 Followed
1 Foot.
1 Footwear.
1 Force-field
1 Formulas.
1 Fortune cookie.
1 Four leaf clover.
1 Fox.
1 Functioning level.
1 Game show.
1 Game.
1 General.
1 Goose.
1 Grapevine.
1 Ground Hog
1 Ground.
1 Habits.
1 Half-baked.
1 Hall patrol.
1 Handles.
1 Handshake.
1 Hang on.
1 Head.
1 Healthy.
1 Helicopter.
1 Hell-bent.
1 Helping professions.
1 Helping.
1 Hill.
1 Hire
1 Hiring.
1 Hocus-pocus.
1 Horse shoe.
1 Hot air.
1 Hot tub.
1 Howling.
1 Hypnosis.
1 Hypothetical.
1 IEP goals.
1 Ideas.
1 Illegal.
1 Imitations.
1 Inclusive education -- Caricatures and cartoons.
1 Inclusive education -- Humor.
1 Incredibly.
1 Individualizing.
1 Information.
1 Interactions.
1 Interrogation.
1 Intersection.
1 Interview
1 Interview.
1 Jeopardy.
1 Job Coach
1 Joe.
1 Joint.
1 Judge.
1 Kindergarten.
1 Knitting.
1 Labeling.
1 Laugh.
1 Learning.
1 Legal.
1 Literacy.
1 Logic.
1 Longevity.
1 Lost.
1 Luck.
1 Lunacy.
1 Lying.
1 Magnifying glass.
1 Mail.
1 Manhole.
1 Mania.
1 Marking.
1 Matchbook.
1 Mediation.
1 Meditation.
1 Meeting.
1 Membership.
1 Memory.
1 Military.
1 Mirror.
1 Misguided.
1 Mission impossible.
1 Mission.
1 Molehill.
1 Moon.
1 Multiple personality disorder.
1 Musketeers.
1 Name.
1 National study.
1 Natural supports.
1 Nature.
1 Nest.
1 Nightmare.
1 Numbers.
1 Oasis.
1 Objectives.
1 Octopus
1 Only as special as necessary.
1 Oops.
1 Option.
1 Oven.
1 Paralysis.
1 Paranoid
1 Pare parents.
1 Pedaling.
1 Periscope.
1 Persistence.
1 Personalities.
1 Phone booth.
1 Phonics.
1 Picking nose.
1 Pinocchio.
1 Points.
1 Political.
1 Positioning.
1 Positive behavior supports.
1 Poultry.
1 Preschool.
1 Primitive.
1 Probation
1 Professionals.
1 Promise.
1 Proverb.
1 Psychologist.
1 Publisher.
1 Pumped.
1 Puns.
1 Purposeful.
1 Rabbit's foot.
1 Rating.
1 Raw.
1 Reaching.
1 Reality.
1 Recessive traits.
1 Recycling.
1 Regular class.
1 Rehabilitation.
1 Reminder.
1 Remodel.
1 Replica.
1 Research.
1 Resistance.
1 Rip Van Winkle.
1 Roaches.
1 Rocket.
1 Ropes
1 Round hole.
1 Rumors.
1 Salt shaker.
1 Salute.
1 Sandwich board.
1 Sawhorse.
1 School psychologist.
1 Schools.
1 Search
1 Search.
1 Seat belt.
1 Shaping.
1 Shocking.
1 Shoes.
1 Signs.
1 Sinatra.
1 Singer.
1 Sink.
1 Skeleton.
1 Skin.
1 Sleeping.
1 Slide.
1 Slim plan.
1 Small print.
1 Snoring.
1 Solitude.
1 Sound.
1 Space station.
1 Special class.
1 Special education -- Caricatures and cartoons.
1 Special education -- Humor.
1 Specialist-reliant.
1 Speech therapy.
1 Speech-language pathology.
1 Sponsorship.
1 Spot.
1 Spotlight.
1 Square peg.
1 Stacks.
1 Stairs.
1 Standardized.
1 Stone-age.
1 Stress.
1 Supervision
1 Supported Employment
1 Sustained silent reading.
1 Swimming.
1 Swing.
1 TV.
1 Tale.
1 Talk.
1 Tapping pencil.
1 Tattoo.
1 Team size.
1 Teeth.
1 Territory.
1 Terrorless.
1 Testing kit.
1 Therapy.
1 Thick skin.
1 Thimbles.
1 Ticket.
1 Traffic.
1 Training
1 Tun.
1 Turban.
1 Turkeys.
1 Turnover.
1 Turtles.
1 Underwear.
1 University.
1 Unusual.
1 Values.
1 Vertically challenged.
1 Waders.
1 Weight.
1 Weightlifting.
1 Welcome.
1 Wheel.
1 Whine.
1 Whole language.
1 Wine barrels.
1 Wings.
1 Woods.
1 Wrench.
1 action.
Collection Details
Title - Absurdities and Realities of Special Education
Creator - Giangreco, Michael F., 1956-
Illustrator - Ruelle, Kevin
Date Created - 1998-2020
Description - Absurdities and Realities of Special Education: The University of Vermont Center for Digital Initiatives Collection is a complete set of all of the cartoons created by Michael Giangreco with the assistance of the artist Kevin Ruelle. This includes a total of 335 cartoons from four previously published books and searchable CD that went "out of print" in 2019 and a few newer cartoons. Michael Giangreco created the original ideas, text, and sketches for each cartoon and Kevin Ruelle redrew the sketches.
The cartoons in the first three books all were originally in black and white. That was a conscious decision, both for aesthetic and practical reasons. The cartoons were designed to be easily copied on to overhead transparencies for display in classes, workshops, and other learning environments. A group called Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) requested permission to use one of the cartoons on the cover of their magazine and subsequently colorized it. Prompted by Giangreco’s colleagues associated with ALLFIE, Giangreco and Ruelle began to colorize the rest of the images. In this complete digital collection, we have included a total of 335 different digital images; including the 315 different cartoons from the four earlier books, 12 cartoons that were on the CD only, and eight that were not included in any of the previously published books or CD.
Cartoons from the early books have found their way on to the pages of many newsletters disseminated by schools, parent groups, disability advocacy organizations, and professional associations. They have appeared in books, manuals, and journals; a few were even published in a law journal. The cartoons have been used extensively as projected slides or within learning activities in college classes, at conferences, in workshops, and at other meetings. Parents have framed cartoons that closely reflected their own experiences and hung them in their homes or offices. Other parents have used them in meetings with professionals to help get their points across. They have been given as gifts to people who "get it" and handed out as door prizes. The Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights used them as part of "Disability Awareness Day" at the Vermont legislature. The cartoons can be used in innumerable creative ways.
Subject - Special education--Caricatures and cartoons
- Special education--Humor
- Inclusive education--Caricatures and cartoons
- Inclusive education--Humor
- Inclusive education
- Special education
- Caricatures and cartoons
- Humor
Publisher - University of Vermont Libraries, Center for Digital Initiatives
Access Conditions - In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Access Conditions [Local] - Copyright 1998 Michael Giangreco
Identifier [Local] - giangrecocartoons
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