Community Organizing: Theory and Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Biklen, Douglas

Social Sciences

Pearson College Div

Achieving the Complete School: Strategies for Effective Mainstreaming (Special Education Series)

Achieving the Complete School: Strategies for Effective Mainstreaming (Special Education Series)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Teachers College Pr

Communication Unbound: How Facilitated Communication Is Challenging Traditional Views of Autism and Ability/Disability (Special Education Series, No)

Facilitated communication is the means by which thousands of people who cannot speak or whose speech is highly disordered, and who were previously believed to be severely retarded, are revealing unexpected literacy abilities. This book describes how it works.

Communication Unbound: How Facilitated Communication Is Challenging Traditional Views of Autism and Ability/Disability (Special Education Series)

Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Blackman, Lucy

Bissonnette, Larry

Burke, Alberto Frugone Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay and Sue Rubin Jamie

Children's Health

NYU Press

Autism has been defined by experts as a developmental disorder affecting social and communication skills as well as verbal and nonverbal communication. It is said to occur in as many as 2 to 6 in 1,000 individuals. This book challenges the prevailing, tragic narrative of impairment that so often characterizes discussions about autism. Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone seriously engages the perspectives of people with autism, including those who have been considered as the most severely disabled within the autism spectrum. The heart of the book consists of chapters by people with autism themselves, either in an interview format with the author or written by themselves. Each author communicates either by typing or by a combination of speech and typing. These chapters are framed by a substantive introduction and conclusion that contextualize the book, the methodology, and the analysis, and situate it within a critical disability studies framework. The volume allows a look into the rich and insightful perspectives of people who have heretofore been thought of as uninterested in the world.

Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone (Qualitative Studies in Psychology, 3)

Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

Richard Attfield

Larry Bissonnette

Lucy Blackman

Jamie Burke

Alberto Frugone

Sue Rubin

Psychology & Counseling

Autism has been defined by experts as a developmental disorder affecting social and communication skills as well as verbal and nonverbal communication. It is said to occur in as many as 2 to 6 in 1,000 individuals. This book challenges the prevailing, tragic narrative of impairment that so often characterizes discussions about autism. Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone seriously engages the perspectives of people with autism, including those who have been considered as the most severely disabled within the autism spectrum. The heart of the book consists of chapters by people with autism themselves, either in an interview format with the author or written by themselves. Each author communicates either by typing or by a combination of speech and typing. These chapters are framed by a substantive introduction and conclusion that contextualize the book, the methodology, and the analysis, and situate it within a critical disability studies framework. The volume allows a look into the rich and insightful perspectives of people who have heretofore been thought of as uninterested in the world.

Schooling Without Labels: Parents, Educators, and Inclusive Education (Health Society And Policy)

Douglas Biklen closely examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understand how people who have been labeled disabled might become full participants in the other areas of society as well. He focuses on the contradictions between what some families have achieved, what they want for their children, and what society and its social policies allow. He demonstrates how the principles of inclusion that govern the lives of these families can be extended to education, community life, and other social institutions. The parents who tell their stories here have actively sought inclusion of their children in regular schools and community settings; several have children with severe or multiple disabilities. In discussing issues such as normalization, acceptance, complete schooling, circles of friends, and community integration, these parents describe the challenge and necessity of their children's "leading regular lives." In the series Health, Society, and Policy, edited by Sheryl Ruzek and Irving Kenneth Zola.

Temple University Press

Examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understand how people who have been labeled disabled might become full participants in the other areas of society as well.

This book describes how parents of children with disabilities, and their allies, can fight for their own needs and rights.

Let Our Children Go

Human Policy Pr

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