The Menstuff® library lists pertinent books on disabilities. This is our first book.
Berube, Michael, Life As We Know It: A
father, a family and an exceptional child. We Americans argue
about representations all the time: the representation of poor
people in Congress, of Arabs in Disney movies, of
African-Americans in the wake of the O.J. trial, of
African-Americans who aren't represented by the best lawyers money
can buy. Representations matter. Our world is that which our eyes
and ears half create and half perceive; and it is because of this
that we need to deliberate the question of how we will represent
the range of human variations to ourselves. How we understand
people with Down Syndrome will become part of what it means to
have Down syndrome. In these pages the author has tried to
represent his son James to the best of his ability. Nothing he
writes will redraw a political district nor change the chemical
composition of Jamie's cells. His job, for now, is to represent
his son, to set his place at our collective table. But he knows he
is merely trying his best to prepare for the day Jamie sets his
own place. For he has no sweeter dream than to imagine that Jamie
will someday be his own advocate, his own author, his own best
representative. Pantheon Books, www.randomhouse.com
1996 ISBN 0-679-44223-5 Buy
This Book!
Cole
, Sandra & David Gray, editors, Reproductive Issues for
Persons with Physical Disabilities. Brookes Publishing,
Baltimore, MD 1993. 800.638.3775Ducharme,
Stanley & Kathleen M Gill, Sexuality After Spinal Cord
Injury, Brookes Publishing, Baltimore, MD 1997,
800.638.3775
Kroll, Ken Erica Levy Klein, Enabling Romance: A Guide To Love,
Sex And Relationships For The Disabled: (and the People who
Care About Them). A helpful and encouraging book that covers a
wide range of disabilities. Woodbine House, Bethseda, MD 1995.
800.843.7323 www.newmobility.com/bookstore-romance.cfm
Levine, James, Getting Men
Involved: Strategies for early childhood programs. Not
specific to special needs children. Scholastics Inc, 1993 (See
Family & Work Institute - 212.465.2044 for this and
similar publications. www.familiesandwork.org)
Loggins, Michael Bernard, Fears of Your
Life. This book is about scary things: all the things that
you're afraid of. Everybody has fears in common and in this
guileless handwritten book, the author, an adult with
developmental disabilities, battles his fears by listing more than
one hundred of them. He explores the depths of our most human
emotion. From simple fears, like "# 57 Fear of being different."
to more complex fears like # 85 Fear that if you put too much
toilet paper in the toilet bowl it will run over and get all over
the floor and on you and on someone else too, it would leak from
upstairs to the next floor below." The author has been writing,
drawing and painting at San Francisco's Creativity Explored since
it's inception in 1984. His work has been exhibited at Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Mark Moore Gallery in
Los Angeles, and the Bronwyn Keenan Gallery in New York. Manic
D Press, 2004, ISBN 0-916397-90-4 
Marca Sipski, Marca & Craig J. Alexander, editors, Sexual
Function in People with Disabilities and Chronic Illness: A Health
Professional's Guide Aspen Publishers, Gaithersburg, MD 1997.
800.638.8437
Packard, David & Lucile Foundation,
Special Education for Students with Disabilities. Twenty
years ago, the educational rights of students with disabilities
were dramatically and firmly established in law and practice.
Prior to that time, many students were refused enrollment or
special educational services. As recently as 1973, at least one
million students were denied enrollment in public schools solely
on the basis of their disabilities, and at least two million
others were not receiving an education appropriate to their needs.
Although every state has provided some form of special education
throughout this century, these services were largely at the
discretion of local school districts. Only since a federal court
case in 1972 and the passage of federal legislation in 1975 have
all states been mandated to provide a free, appropriate public
education to all students with disabilities. This analysis
addresses five questions concerning special education:
(1) Why are so many students considered
disabled? (2) What are the educational needs of students
with disabilities? (3) How should appropriate,
individualized services be funded? (4) Are the
procedural protections of the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act necessary? (5) Can regular education meet
the needs of more students? The Future of Children, is published
three times a year, each on a different topic relating to
children. This is Vol 6 Number 1, Spring 1996 circulation@futureofchildren.org
or www.futureofchildren.org
Patterson, Patricia Miles, Doubly Silenced: Sexuality, Sexual
Abuse and People with Developmental Disabilities. Wisconsin
Council on Developmental Disabilities, Madison, WI 1991.
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