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Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
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Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
by Rachel Simon

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Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on...
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Embarking on a New Century: Mental Retardation at the End of the 20th Century
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Embarking on a New Century: Mental Retardation at the End of the 20th Century
by Robert L Schalock

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Changes, challenges, and controversies marked the period between 1975-2000 for the disability field in America. Embarking is a unique reference that captures societal issues that carried the intellectual disability field into a new age of community...
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Adult With Down Syndrome a New Challenge for Society
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Adult With Down Syndrome a New Challenge for Society
by Jean A. Rondal

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The marked increase in life-expectancy in Down syndrome since the 1990s, although a very good sign in itself, raises important questions regarding the health issues, cognitive involution and social and professional inclusion of people with the condition....
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Riding the Bus with My Sister: How I Learned to Slow Down and Enjoy the Ride
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Riding the Bus with My Sister: How I Learned to Slow Down and Enjoy the Ride
by Rachel Simon

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Rachel Simon?s sister Beth is a spirited woman who lives intensely and often joyfully, despite her mental retardation. Beth spends her days riding the buses in her Pennsylvania city. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are...
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Count Us In: Growing Up With Down Syndrome (07 Edition)
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Count Us In: Growing Up With Down Syndrome (07 Edition)
by Jason Kingsley

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At ages nineteen and twenty-two, respectively, Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz shared their innermost thoughts, feelings, hopes, and dreams, their lifelong friendship-- and their experiences growing up with Down syndrome. Their frank discussion of...
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Participatory Evaluation Strategy for SP
by Darrell R Lewis

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Lewis and Johnson lay out a clear nine-step method for identifying and weighting the importance of disparate goals and outcomes. These consensus-building evaluation techniques are well suited for administrators in the field of disabilities....
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In Search of the Promised Land: The Collected Papers of Burton Blatt
by Steven J. Taylor and Steven D. Blatt

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Samples the voluminous writings of Blatt (1927-85), one of the most prominent champions for ending abuses against the mentally retarded from the middle 1960s to his death. The selections are presented in sections titled In and Out respectively of...
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Crisis Prevention & Response in the Community
by Ronald H. Hason and Norman A. Wiesler and K. Charlie Lakin

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Crisis services are essential in community-based settings to minimize inappropriate and costly alternatives, such as emergency psychiatric hospitalizations or incarceration, and also to ensure the critical success of deinstitutionalization efforts...
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Philosophy and Medicine #15: Ethics and Mental Retardation
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Philosophy and Medicine #15: Ethics and Mental Retardation
by Loretta Kopelman



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Medical dimensions of mental retardation
by Menolascino Frank



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Organisational Structure & the Care of T
by Norma V. Raynes



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Brain Child: A Mother's Diary
by Peggy Napear



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Positive Behaviour Support
by Dennis Reid



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Mental Retardation: Nature, Cause & Management
by George S Baroff



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CommunicationTraining in Childhood Brain Damage
by Merlin J Mecham



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The cloak of competence :stigma in the lives of the mentally retarded
by Robert B Edgerton



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Right-to-Education Child: A Curriculum for the Severely & Profoundly Mentally Retarded
by Donald G Myers



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Developmental disabilities :a training guide
by Henri Deutsch



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