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Learning Disabilities and Life Stories
Pano Rodis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Dartmouth College
Andrew Garrod, Dartmouth College
Mary Lynn Boscardin, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

ISBN-10: 0205320104
ISBN-13: 9780205320103

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2001
Format: Paper; 247 pp
Published: 06/09/2000

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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 autobiographies appearing earlier in the book, these scholarly essays stand on their own as lucid and original contributions to the literature on learning disabilities.

  • Full-length autobiographical essays written by persons with learning disabilities are carefully told portraits of the inner worlds and life-experience of persons who have grown up with learning disabilities.
  • Scholarly essays answer and/or make dialogue with the autobiographies and offer important, original perspectives on best practices for educators, special educators, and psychologists.
  • A chapter by Lisa Delpit (author of Skin-Deep Learning ) focuses on the social justice and diversity issues that emerge when persons with learning disabilities also happen to be racial minorities (Ch. 14).
  • A chapter by Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan focuses on how learning disabilities may impact the development of selfhood (Ch. 17).
  • A chapter by Harold McGrady, Janet Lerner, and Mary Lynn Boscardin (authors of The Educational Lives of Young Adults with Learning Disabilities ) is designed for special and general educators, administrators, and parents. This chapter models a reflective approach to determining which instructional practices are likely to benefit students with learning disabilities (Ch. 16).



Preface.


Introduction.

LIFE STORIES.

 1.Oliver Queen, Blake Academy and the Green Arrow.

 2.Lynn Pelkey, In the LD Bubble.

 3.Aaron Piziali, Revolution.

 4.Christie Jackson, Look in the Mirror and See What I See.

 5.Michael Sanders, Trusting My Strengths.

 6.Gretchen O'Connor, Bad.

 7.Joshua Green, ADHD: Window, Weapon, or Support.

 8.Velvet Cunningham, Lovelvet.

 9.Garett Day, Finally Saying What I Mean.

10.Kevin Marshall, Jr., I Will Not Succumb to Obstacles.

11.Kelly Miskell, Learning to Raise My Hand.

12.Nelson Vee, Riding the Drug and Alcohol Train.

13.Alison May, Figuring out My World.

SCHOLARLY PERSPECTIVES.

Education.

14.Lisa Delpit, “Skin-Deep” Learning.15.Carol S. Witherell and Pano Rodis, “Shimmers of Delight and Intellect”: Building Learning Communities of Promise and Possibility.16.Harold McGrady, Janet Lerner, and Mary Lynn Boscardin, The Educational Lives of Students with Learning Disabilities.
Psychology.

17.Robert Kegan, Easing a World of Pain: Learning Disabilities and the Psychology of Self-Understanding.18.Pano Rodis, 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.





"Learning Disabilities and Life Stories brings important new perspectives to the study of learning disabilities — those of people living with them. Their poignant and informative narratives combined with the scholarly and timely works of the authors makes this a must read for anyone who works with people challenged by these difficulties who wishes to be both empathetic and effective." —By Mark Ciocca, Ph. D, ABPP, Capital Valley Counseling Associates, Past President of the New Hampshire Psychological Association


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