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Learning Disabilities and Life Stories

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ISBN-10: 0205320104

ISBN-13: 9780205320103

Edition: 2001

Authors: Pano Rodis, Andrew Garrod, Mary Boscardin

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This anthology is comprised of two major components: thirteen autobiographical essays written by persons with learning disabilities and five analytical chapters written by education and psychology scholars. Speaking in terms alternately intimate and analytical, autobiographical essays tell of sustained personal encounters with the challenges and mysteries of living with a learning disability. These full-length autobiographies are not merely personal, concerned solely with their writers' private lives; rather, they are also consciously analytical, offering astute, critical readings of culture and society. The essays are written by noted educators and psychologists. Although keyed to the…    
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Book details

List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 6/9/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Andrew Garrod is Professor Emeritus of Education at Dartmouth College. He is coeditor of Growing Up Muslim: Muslim College Students in America Tell Their Life Stories , First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories , Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories , Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories , and Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories , all from Cornell.

Preface
Introduction
Life Stories
Blake Academy and the Green Arrow
In the LD Bubble
Revolution
Look in the Mirror and See What I See
Trusting My Strengths
Bad
ADHD: Window, Weapon, or Support
Lovelvet
Finally Saying What I Mean
I Will Not Succumb to Obstacles
Learning to Raise My Hand
Riding the Drug and Alcohol Train
Figuring out My World
Scholarly Perspectives
Education
"Skin-Deep" Learning
"Shimmers of Delight and Intellect": Building Learning Communities of Promise and Possibility
The Educational Lives of Students with Learning Disabilities Psychology
Easing a World of Pain: Learning Disabilities and the Psychology of Self-Understanding
Forging Identities, Tackling Problems, and Arguing with Culture: Psychotherapy with Persons Who Have Learning Disabilities
Appendix: Resource List for Persons with Learning Disabilities
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index