Reflections from a Different Journey
On the Back Cover
Most parents of children with disabilities lack personal experience with adults with disabilities. Hearing from people who have lived the disability experience can provide all parents with essential information about the possibilities for all children. Reflections from a Different Journey includes forty inspiring essays written by successful adult role models who share what it is like to grow up with a disability.
Each eloquently written essay is an insightful source of wisdom, inspiration, and emotional support as well as a rare glimpse inside the lives and minds of people with many different disabilities--autism,cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, learning disabilities, deafness, blindness, mental illness, developmental disabilities, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, congenital amputation, and chronic health conditions.
Essay authors were asked to write about something they wish their own parents had read or been told while they were growing up. The essays demonstrate that, first and foremost, people with disabilities are human beings with the same needs and desires as people without disabilities.
"As the mother of a son with profound physical disabilities, I want every parent of a child in similar circumstances to read this remarkable eye-opening book.
The lessons it brings from adults with disabilities are essential to giving our kids the start they deserve and to understanding how close their hopes and aspirations
are to kids we see as 'normal.'"
--Judy Woodruff, Former Anchor, CNN
"A fabulous contribution to the field of disabilities. Parents everywhere need to read this book. Everyone involved with children with disabilities needs to read it.
It answers so many questions about what works and what doesn't. And it answers the questions in the most reliable manner--in the voice of the son or daughter."
--Patricia McGill Smith, Former national parent leader and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Dept. of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
"The significant education for those helping, supporting, advising, and motivating people with disabilities is in listening to them. These writers with
disabilities are brilliant in portraying their lives with pathos and even humor. Professionals and parents trying to achieve equality for people with disabilities
must read this masterpiece."
--Henry Betts, M.D., Former Medical Director and CEO, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
"Looking to engage your students and teach them the importance of believing in students when no one else does? Klein and Kemp's Reflections from a Different Journey is a text I have been using in my Exceptional Children and Their Families course for the past seven years. Year after year students rave about this text and comment on the impact it has had on them, even years later. It's a book I would recommend to everyone; but, it is a must read, especially for those working in any capacity with anyone with a disability." --Lauren McFadden, Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Seton Hall University
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Click here to view the Foreword by Marlee Matlin
Click here to view the Afterword by John D. Kemp
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