Children with disabilities in America : a historical handbook and guide /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Safford, Philip L., Safford, Elizabeth J., 1958-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Series:	Children and youth (Westport, Conn.)
Subjects:	Children with disabilities > United States > History. Children with disabilities > Education > United States > History. Children with disabilities > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Multilingual, multicultural, multitalented: the history of a diverse people / Roberta Thoryk, Angela Battistone-Potosky, and Fred Palchik
Reaching across the divide: visual disability and American childhood / Carol Linsenmeier and Jeff Moyer
The progressive movement and the child with physical disabilities / Brad Byrom
A matter of difference: a contextual perspective on the history of children with mental retardation in the United States / Elizabeth L. Brennan
Children being different, difficult, or disturbed in America / Philip L. Safford and Elizabeth J. Safford
Resource documents
Deafness and childhood
Visual disability and childhood
Other physical disability and childhood
Cognitive disability and childhood
Troubled, troubling, and troublesome children
Bibliography and resources for inquiry
A sampling of self-narratives by persons with disabilities
A sampling of narratives about persons with disabilities
A sampling of literary sources concerning persons with disabilities
Narratives about nondisabled Americans important in the history of persons with disabilities
Sources of historical information about children with disabilities in America
A sampling of references on the history of childhood
Resources on the World Wide Web
Disability studies: historical resources
Children's literature and disability
Other resources for and about persons with disabilities.