Children with disabilities in America
Subtitle: a historical handbook and guide
By: edited by Philip L. Safford and Elizabeth J. Safford.
Contributors: Safford, Philip L.; Safford, Elizabeth J., 1958-
Series: Children and youth: history and culture,; Children and youth (Westport, Conn.)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Subjects: Children with disabilities -- United States -- History.; Children with disabilities -- United States -- Education -- History.; Children with disabilities -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Multilingual, multicultural, multitalented: the history of a diverse people / Roberta Thoryk, Angela Battistone-Potosky, and Fred Palchik; title: Reaching across the divide: visual disability and American childhood / Carol Linsenmeier and Jeff Moyer; title: The progressive movement and the child with physical disabilities / Brad Byrom; title: A matter of difference: a contextual perspective on the history of children with mental retardation in the United States / Elizabeth L. Brennan; title: Children being different, difficult, or disturbed in America / Philip L. Safford and Elizabeth J. Safford; title: Resource documents; title: Deafness and childhood; title: Visual disability and childhood; title: Other physical disability and childhood; title: Cognitive disability and childhood; title: Troubled, troubling, and troublesome children; title: Bibliography and resources for inquiry; title: A sampling of self-narratives by persons with disabilities; title: A sampling of narratives about persons with disabilities; title: A sampling of literary sources concerning persons with disabilities; title: Narratives about nondisabled Americans important in the history of persons with disabilities; title: Sources of historical information about children with disabilities in America; title: A sampling of references on the history of childhood; title: Resources on the World Wide Web; title: Disability studies: historical resources; title: Children's literature and disability; title: Other resources for and about persons with disabilities.