What is Special Education? and What should it mean for professionals and stakeholders in the lives of students with disabilities? Surthriving Special Education is a user manual and a survival guide for those who seek mastery in the profession of special education from a master practitioner's perspective. Special education can be a garden of light, but it can also be brutal. It is the branch of K-12 education that requires the most knowledge and training, so professionals need a means of making their way through the ups and downs of special education in a system where things change all the time. From IEP creation to understanding what you need to know as a case manager to the medical aspects of disabilities in school, this book will guide special educators in the practices and knowledge that they must have to do the work of special education at a high level all from the purview of a master practitioner. This book will also serve as a birds eye view of special education for stakeholders in the lives of students with disabilities.