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Reflections from a Different Journey
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Most parents of children with disabilities lack personal experience with adults with disabilities. Hearing from people who have lived the disability experience can provide parents with essential information about the possibilities for their children.
Reflections from a Different Journey comprises forty essays on topics from sexuality to education. They are written by successful adult role models with various disabilities — cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism, learning disabilities, deafness, blindness, mental illness, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder-- who share what it is like to grow up with a disability. Compiled by John Kemp, a noted attorney and advocate for people with disabilities, and Stanley Klein, a clinical psychologist and former editor of Exceptional Parent magazine, each essay is an insightful source of wisdom, inspiration, and emotional support.
The authors were asked to write about something they wished their own parents had known while they were growing up. The essays stress that people with disabilities are human beings with the same needs and desires as people without disabilities. The essays offer many specific suggestions for families of people with disabilities, older children with disabilities, and education and health care professionals.
Editors: Stanley Klein and John Kemp
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2004, $18.95
Updated: 07/18/2006
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