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Seeing Beyond Sight
photographs by blind teenagers
By Tony Deifell
"What are you thinking, teaching photography to blind people?"

Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
By Paul Longmore

Temple Press, 2003

Below is an excerpt from a review by John Vickrey Van Cleve

"Over the course of an academic career, it's fairly common to publish a book or two, write an occasional article for specialized journals, and teach classes in a narrowly circumscribed field. These milestones are not generally difficult to achieve, but their significance is elusive. Few of us publish work that creates new paradigms or that leads to changes in public or private behavior. Perhaps our students reconsidered long-held beliefs or discovered new ways of interpreting their world, but in most cases we do not know. Looking back on three pleasurable decades in academia, therefore, I wonder whether my career has had an impact, whether it has meaning beyond personal gratification. Paul Longmore need not confront this painful question: in fewer than twenty years as a university historian, he has altered the practices of his chosen profession, and he has affected attitudes and institutional behavior nationwide."

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Citation: John Vickrey Van Cleve . "Review of Paul K. Longmore, Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability," H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, October, 2003. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=249401068188450.

Just Give Him The Whale
20 Ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise, and Strengths to Support Students with Autism

By Paula Kluth, Ph.D., & Patrick Schwarz, Ph.D. (In Press)

See this book at Brookes Publishing

“When learners with autism have deep, consuming fascinations—trains, triangles, basketballs, whales—teachers often wonder what to do. This concise, highly practical guidebook gives educators across grade levels a powerful new way to think about students' "obsessions": as positive teaching tools that calm, motivate, and improve learning.”

book:

Disability/ Postmodernity: Embodying Disability Theory
Edited by Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare

Amazon

H-Net Book Reviews for H-Disability

Below are links to some reviews from the site sorted by author...

Adams, Rachel
Title: Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
Reviewer: Martha L. Rose

Andrews, Jonathan and Andrew Scull
Title: Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England
Reviewer: John S. Haller, Jr.

Bakke, Dave
Title: God Knows His Name: The True story of John Doe No. 24
Reviewer: Steven Noll

Barasch, Moshe
Title: Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought
Reviewer: Edward Wheatley

Burch, Susan
Title: Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to 1942
Reviewer: Brad Byrom

Davis, Lennard J.
Title: Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions
Reviewer: Susan Burch

Freeberg, Ernest
Title: The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
Reviewer: Hannah Joyner

Gaillard, Henri
Title: Gaillard in Deaf America: A Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917
Reviewer: R.A.R. Edwards

Gerber, David A., ed.
Title: Disabled Veterans in History. Corporealities: Discourses of Disability.
Reviewer: Daniel J. Wilson

Gitter, Elisabeth
Title: The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl
Reviewer: Hannah Joyner

Husson, Therese-Adele
Title: Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France
Reviewer: Gay L. Gullickson

Johnson, Mary and Barrett Shaw, eds
Title: To Ride the Public's Buses: The Fight that Built a Movement
Reviewer: Richard K. Scotch

Johnston, Basil
Title: Crazy Dave
Reviewer: Robert Bogdan

Klages, Mary
Title: Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America
Reviewer: Wendy Kline

Kline, Wendy
Title: Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
Reviewer: Molly Ladd-Taylor

Longmore, Paul K.
Title: Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
Reviewer: John Vickrey Van Cleve

Longmore, Paul K. and Lauri Umansky, eds.
Title: The New Disability History: American Perspectives
Reviewer: Brenda Jo Bruggemann

Ott, Katherine and David Serlin, and Stephen Mihm, eds
Title: Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics
Reviewer: Dudley S. Childress

Scotch, Richard K.
Title: From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy
Reviewer: Gerald V. O'Brien

Switzer, Jacqueline Vaughn
Title: Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
Reviewer: Stephen Gulley

book:

Gendering Disability
Edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Beth Hutchison

Amazon

Book:

Disability and History (Radical History Review, Winter 2006)
Edited by Teresa Meade

Book:

The New Disability History: American Perspectives

By Paul Longmore, Lauri Umansky

Below is an excerpt from a review by Brenda Jo Bruggemann

"The New Disability History: American Perspectives is a truly groundbreaking volume and is well-deserving of the praise heaped on its back cover: a "splendid collection" that is "not your father's old-time medical history--it's a broader, brilliant enterprise" (Walter Nugent) and "a cause for celebration" with "the insights popping off each page" (Martha Minow). Co-edited and introduced by Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky, two scholars of the new disability history themselves, this volume brings together a collection of fourteen essays about disability and disabled people in American history. The essays range from the early nineteenth century to the present, with "a majority of the pieces situated in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries," a period that "draws particular attention" because, as the editors document in their introduction, much of the work around disability in American history at large "point[s] to the half century from around 1880-1930 as a moment of major redefinition" for disabled lives, disability policy, and disability history (p. 22)." Read Full Review

Brenda Jo Bruggemann . "Review of Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, eds, The New Disability History: American Perspectives," H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, September, 2002. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=144171031912790.

Book:

Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader
By Steven Noll, James Trent

Book:

Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and the Case Against Disability Rights

By Mary Johnson

Advocado Press, 2003

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary Johnson is founder and editor of Ragged Edge magazine (formerly The Disability Rag.) She has been covering the disability rights movement in the U.S. for more than two decades.

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Book: Christmas in Purgatory

Christmas in Purgatory
By Burton Blatt, Fred Kaplan

Book: Claiming Disability

Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity
By Simi Linton

Book: Bending Over Backwards

Bending Over Backwards: Essays on Disability and the Body
by Lennard Davis, Michael Berube

book: Handbook of Disability Studies

Handbook of Disability Studies
Edited by Gary L. Albrecht, Katherine D. Seelman and Michael Bury

Staff Recruitment, Retention, & Training Strategies for Community Human Services Organizations
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With the sensible, easy-to-implement suggestions in this invaluable book, readers will sharpen their managerial expertise, reduce turnover, and build a more committed, skilled staff.”