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.)
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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.