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Introduces young readers to conditions and disabilities that may affect them, or their friends and family. Each title discusses what the condition is, how it can be treated, how it affects everyday life and what it is like to have these conditions. This book contains a clear definition of each illness or condition and includes a 'how you can help' section offering contact details and further information and advice. ... Read more

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This book has brought together leading international experts to explore the similarities and the differences between autism and blindness. Current research with children as well as adults is described comparing early psychological development from a range of perspectives such as language, memory, thought and feelings as well as providing critical reviews of educational and intervention programmes.

New developments in the field have sparked debate that is well represented here and touches on a variety of issues ranging from musical talent to the basis of 'connectedness' to others. The readership will be drawn from many fields reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the topic and will include researchers and practitioners in psychology and psychiatry as well as educationalists, therapists, classroom teachers and parents. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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“Making It Work is destined to be the definitive guide for years to come on how to make the regular school education a successful experiencefor blind/visually impaired children. With chapters flowing logically and full of detailed, useful information, it will be an essential handbookfor school staff, specialized service providers, and parents of blind/visually impaired children. This is an exquisite, enlightened guide for theeducation of blind/visually impaired children in the new millennium.”

--Joe Cutter, Early Childhood O&M Specialist

CONTENTS: Why the Regular School? Raising Expectations. A Skills Definition of Blindness. The Skills and Tools of Blindness. Settingthe Stage for Success: Essentials That Must Be in Place. Writing IEP Goals and Objectives. Specifics for Classroom Teachers. Accessing theCurriculum: Classroom Techniques and Subject Guide. The Role of the Teacher’s Aide. Adapting Materials. Technology. Report from theClassroom: Inspiration and Advice from Those Who Have Been There. Resources. References. ... Read more

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A volume in Critical Concerns in BlindnessSeries Editor Edward C. Bell, Louisiana Tech UniversityAll parents hope for an independent future for their blind/visually impaired child. To turn thathope into a reality, parents need to understand the scope of skill development that must beaddressed, along with the importance of equal expectations for the child's development, propertraining, and opportunity to practice and develop skills. But what if expectations are low,training in blindness skills is scanty or even absent, and overprotection prevents the blind/VIchild from learning and practicing skills? The idea of an independent future can remain adistant dream.The purpose of this book is to guide parents and teachers in fostering the blind/visually impaired child's skill development in suchcritical areas as academics, independent movement and travel, social interaction, daily living, and self-advocacy, so that he or she willtruly be on the road to an independent future. A practical, easy to use guide, written in plain English, the book warns about commonproblem areas and provides ideas for getting and keeping the child's education and development on track. It highlights the interplaybetween skills and competence, confidence, self-respect, and the respect of others.Of the small number of books and videos available on the subject, most were written by professionals in the field and many beginwith the supposition that blindness is at best sad and at worst tragic. Few --maybe none --have the ardent passion for independence thatthe parent of a blind/visually impaired child brings to the subject. Instead of overwhelming parents and teachers with the difficulty ofthe undertaking before them, Getting Ready for College Begins in Third Grade will inspire their confidence and enthusiasm for the taskat hand. ... Read more

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In Blindness and Insight , de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results oftheir practical criticism. Not only are the critics unawareof this gap, says de Man, but their blindness to it often leads to some of their most valuable insights. The central issue of de Man's work is the rhetorical constitution of the text, and this book, with its new introduction by Wlad Godzich and five additional essays by de Man, is meant to challenge readers to a new appreciation of their chosen task as readers of literature. Included in this new edition are the original essays on Binswanger, Poulet, Lukas, Blanchot, the New Critics, and Derrida's of Grammatology', as well as five more: The Rhetoric of Temporality', The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism', Heidegger's Exegesis of Holderlin', a review of Bloom's Anxiety of Influence, and Literature and Language'. ... Read more

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11 sessions.The way in which we (individually and collectively as a nation) view the world says a lot about our spiritual health.Moore uses eight passages from the book of Mark (along with other passages), to address the need to check our spiritual vision regularly.Are we seeing things clearly, or are we in desperate need of the Great Physician's care?Moore effectively presents the message that the solution to our problems lies in refocusing our eyes on God.Includes a study guide. ... Read more

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Our Sunday School class uses Dr. Moore's books to read a chapter and review together each Sunday.This is the fourth of his books we have used.This book is strong in very good illustrative stories to develop the scripture used and to help Dr Moore make his emphasis for the scripture. ... Read more

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Returning to the themes of her classic The Drama of the Gifted Child, the famed psychoanalyst examines the consequences of cruelty to children and offers ways we can heal our early psychic wounds.

More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving The Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers everywhere, and her book soon achieved cult status and became a backlist bestseller.

In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. Only by embracing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present, she argues. Miller's vivid true stories reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will. Drawing on the latest research on brain development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial. This denial, necessary for the child's survival, leads to emotional blindness and finally to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations, warns Miller-a message vitally important, especially given the increasing popularity of programs like Tough Love and of "child disciplinarians" like James Dobson and other religion-driven psychologists. The Truth Will Set You Free will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's latest thinking on this important subject. ... Read more

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Thou Shalt Be Aware
The terrorist, the mass murderer, the anorexic . . .
At the very beginning of human history, well before the Ten Commandments, we were presented with a supreme and destructive commandment."Thou shalt not be mindful of the things done to you or the things you have done to others."For thousands of years, this "commandment of ignorance" has undermined our education and our childrearing, and has prevented us from telling good from evil.And although evil is learned and is not innate, it is reproduced with each new generation.When we deny our childhood wounds, we will inflict them on the next generation--unless and until we act in favor of knowledge."Only by knowing the truth can we be set free."
Alice Miller continues to impress and inspire.The Truth Will Set You Free (published in Europe as Eve's Awakening) challenges us to reflect about our secrets and our shortcomings.Miller exposes one of society's dirtiest secrets--that we are "emotionally blind" to the abuses suffered by prisoners of childhood.Innocent children--no matter their country, class, or generation--are neglected, humiliated, abused.Small children cannot survive such truths and can only repress them.But, because "the body never forgets," one's cauldron of pain seethes in the unconscious.
Fortunately for these young victims, psychological defenses offer partial protection against pain and anxiety.But repressing childhood traumas leaves mental barriers, an inner void, and the emotional blindness that prods one to harm themselves and others.These young victims become the suicides and psychopaths, the criminals and killers, the prostitutes and self-mutilators . . . as well as the everyday parents who abuse us "for our own good."All are trapped in unconscious compulsions to reenact their destructive childhood dramas on themselves and others.
Throughout this work, Miller questions the Bible.She notes that the Bible contains much that is fine and true, but much "poisonous pedagogy" as well.We must have the courage to eat the apple from the tree of knowledge, to question that which is illogical.Is obedience a virtue?Is curiosity a sin?Is ignorance of good and evil an ideal state?Miller argues that it is our duty to overcome childhood wounds and to acquire knowledge--by overcoming our defenses and our "emotional blindness"--so that we may come to know good from evil, and thereby become more fully responsible for our actions.We are responsible for future generations, too, so we must love and protect all children, no matter the hostility, condemnation, or ostracism that we may encounter.
But how can we overcome our "emotional blindness"?Not through medication, not through meditation, not through relaxation training.Only by embarking on an indispensable journey of self-discovery, in which we confront our childhood traumas and uncover our early emotions.Telling the stories of our childhood allows us to break down walls and reclaim banished knowledge--but only in the presence of an enlightened witness.We benefit from simple regressions, and even from momentary glimpses, into our childhood experiences.A picture of our childhood gradually emerges.And when we discover personal truths, we regain our vitality, our sensitivity, our ability to love.
Many of these ideas, suggests Miller, are supported by recent brain research.There is new knowledge about psychobiological defenses, and about the damage caused to individuals by stress, trauma and neglect.She credits Joseph LeDoux, Debra Niehoff, Candace Pert, Daniel Schacter, and Robert Sapolsky for the discovery that early emotions leave "indelible traces" in the body.
But despite these important scientific discoveries, we have yet to change the way we treat children.Miller is optimistic that legislation and parental education can and will reduce violence to children.This "principle of prevention" will cause our mentality, and our society, to change in stages.Such legislation has already advanced in Sweden, Germany, and South Africa.
Throughout this important new book, we are reminded of Miller's previous and seminal insights:that every criminal was humiliated, neglected or abused in childhood; that only people beaten as children feel the compulsion to beat their own children; and that the world's worst tyrants had childhoods marked by extreme cruelty and humiliation.They had no empathic helpers, no enlightened witnesses.Dictators such as Hitler, Stalin, Ceausescu and Mao, for example, unconsciously reenacted their childhood situations on the political stage.They defended against their pain first through denial, and then through the idealization of their parents.They came to glorify violence, and eventually took revenge on whole nations and peoples as a way of getting even for the cruelty they had once experienced.At one very important level, it is society's blindness to suppressed childhood pain and rage that makes war possible.
Also included in the current volume are brief critiques of the avoidance of childhood in six fields--medicine, psychotherapy, politics, the penal system, religion, and biography.Several new case studies (including the psychoanalyst Harry Guntrip) appear, and important insights are offered into corporal punishment, eating disorders, and circumcision.Finally, several important new books and web sites are recommended to readers.

a re-tread of her wonderful and classic point of view
It's hard not to give anything by Alice Miller five stars, because I think she's the greatest psychology writer out there today - at least the one who's influenced my personal growth and my work as a psychotherapist the most - BUT...But, this book just isn't her greatest, and I found the same problem with it that I found with her last few books...that they're really just a re-tread of her old themes, and her ideas just aren't expanding that much further than those presented in her early classics (For Your Own Good, Drama of the Gifted Child, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware).Granted, this book has its little gems, little case studies here and there in which she expresses her point of view from a slightly new angle, little lines in which she hits the nail right on the head, but if you read her classics and you avoid this book you won't be missing much.

That said, if this is the first (or only) Alice Miller book you come across, you really won't be let down.And perhaps that's her point.In each of her books she presents a concise version of her whole point of view, as if to make sure you don't miss it.And since her point of view is truly classic, so is each of her books regardless of its repetitious nature...this one included.

Overcoming Childhood Abuse
Before reading further, please be aware that this book deals with extreme examples of beatings and sexual abuse of children.The details are not made any more graphic than is necessary to the argument, but the examples will be disturbing to most readers.

Dr. Miller argues that childhood abuse is more prevalent and damaging than appreciated by most.Many victims cannot easily remember that they were abused.Others experienced personality twists that caused them to identify positively with the abuseand abusers as signs of love.The victims often victimize their own children in the same ways, and find their personal relationships inhibited by the obedience patterns imposed by parents and other authority figures.She goes on to argue that the damage is permanently recorded in the brain, and can encourage criminal behavior by leaders and individuals.Dr. Miller approaches the subject from a psychotherapist's viewpoint, but with little jargon.The book is designed for "readers who want to think about their lives and test new ideas . . . ."

The core of her argument is that children need the loving support and freedom to express who they feel comfortable being.When parents and other authority figures use physical punishment, humiliation, and other ways of securing compliance, the result is a person will a reduced to her or his own nature and reduced emotional intelligence.She goes on to connect these experiences to the murders by tyrants (Hitler, Stalin, and Milosevic) as well as the aggrandizing actions by other leaders (like Frederick the Great and Napoleon).She ties German willingness to follow orders in the Holocaust to German child-rearing practices.

In examining religious texts, religious practices, medical practices, educational institutions, and how professionals talk about their own parenting, she identifies physical abuse in childhood as a taboo subject in advanced societies.

Her prescription is that the effects of childhood abuse can be ameliorated by having helping witnesses (people who affirm the child as good and worthy of love while the abuse is going on) and enlightened witnesses, often mental health professional (people who help explore the childhood memories with interest and understanding).

Be prepared to have some of your most fundamental beliefs challenged.Dr. Miller takes on the traditional Old Testament view of God and the nature of sin, opposes male and female circumcision, decries many standard child toilet training and punishment practices, and favors the elimination of all corporal punishment of children (including hand slapping).

On the positive side, she describes the childhood experiences of Jesus and Gorbachev as models.

For professionals in all fields, she also encourages a caring look at childhood experiences of those with standard illnesses as well as those in prisons.I was particularly impressed by her argument that biographers should attempt to learn the details of any physical or emotional abuse that the subject may have experienced as a child.

This book evoked a lot of different reactions in me.First, as a matter of personal taste, I agree with using love and encouragement rather than physical punishment as a way to help children develop good habits.So she was preaching to the choir in having me as a reader.Second, at an emotional level, I found the book stirring up lots of vivid childhood memories that I had probably not thought about in 40 years.In thinking about those memories, I drew new meaning from them . . . both about how I had interpreted them as a child and what they meant about both adults and me.I felt freer as a result.That's an unusual reaction for me to have to a book.Third, at a logical level, I found the arguments over done.Everything seems to be viewed only from the perspective of child abuse.Surely, most kinds of unfortunate adult behavior also have some other causes.

I do admire and appreciate the consistency and energy she has applied to making people more aware of this issue.I certainly learned a lot, and am glad that I did.

After you read this book (and I hope you do), think about someone you have met who has physically or emotionally abusive reactions to problems.Consider how you might make that person aware of the ideas in this book in a caring way.This action could be the beginning of helping them overcome the effects of what might have been caused in part by childhood abuse.

Smile, approach with kindness, and give a hug!

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In this book, Dr. Warren summarizes and interprets the research literature on infants and children with visual impairments. He concludes that many aspects of delayed development are not the result of visual impairment itself, but rather of environmental variables that tend to accompany visual impairment.Thus, many of the typical developmental prdelays may be ameliorated or avoided by the appropriate structuring of the child's experiences. The author makes the argument that the goal of research in this area should be to understand the causes of variation within the population of visually impaired children, rather than making direct, developmental comparison with sighted children. Thus, the existing research literature is searched for evidence of variables that may account for individual differences, including particularly variables related to the child's multiple environments. ... Read more

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The ancient world often thought in terms of physiognomics - the idea that character can be discerned by studying outward, physical features. That physical descriptions carry moral freight in characterization has been largely missed in modern biblical scholarship, and this study brings that to the forefront. Specifically, this is a study of one particular physical marker-blindness. When we look at Greco-Roman literature, a kind of literary topos begins to emerge, a set of assumptions that ancient audiences would typically make when encountering blind characters. "Luke-Acts" makes use of such a topos in a way that becomes programmatic, serving as a kind of interpretive key to Luke-Acts that is generally unnoticed in modern scholarship. ... Read more

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A direct, good humored, non-threatening reference guidefor living in a frightening situation. It is for people affectedpersonally as well as professionally. Dancing in the Darkincludes a resource directory and primer to understand the language ofvisual impairment. ... Read more

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This is a great book
I work with an agency serving visually impaired persons. For years, we have read excerpts aloud from this book to our independent living training classes for persons with vision loss. We have received nothing but rave reviews about this book and numerous complaints that it could not be obtained on cassette tape.It is a very worthwhile and realistic book about one woman's experience of vision loss, which resounds with many visually impaired persons.

Save Your Time
While there are a few useful suggestions, most of the material in this book is dicouraging and false.Blind people can and do all things sight persons do, without many of the issues discussed in this book.People navigate restrooms without help, eat in restaurants without making a mess of themselves or the table without extra plates and napkins, and so much more."Touch the Top of the World" by Erik Weihenmayer, is a much more accurate description of blindness. ... Read more

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Sensitively written and illustrated, this book looks at the subject of blindness. Following the real-life experiences of blind children, readers will discover the medical reasons behind blindness and how blind children cope with their condition. Readers are given a real insight into the lives of young blind people and will learn ways in which they can help. Presented in a clear, colourful format, complete with photographs, glossary, further information and index. ... Read more

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Living with Blindness - Living Blind in a Sighted World
Having spent this, my first year in college, volunteering with two newly-blind individuals, this book was a welcome addition to my makeshift repertoire of ways to help my elderly friends live freely despite theirdisability.The book includes great ideas for mobilizing blindindividuals, increasing access to household objects and appliances, andgenerally instilling in them once again the feeling of self-sufficiencythey lost with their sight. ... Read more

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A "must-have" definitive history
The Unseen Minority: A Social History of Blindness in the United States is a newly revised edition of the award-winning history first commissioned in 1971. Now updated with a foreword outlining issues that have arisin in the past 30 years, historical timelines of landmark legislative events concerning education, low vision, and orientation, The Unseen Minority is a comprehensive and in-depth account of everything from books for the blind (braile and audio books), to issues particular to the war-blinded, the role of mobility as the key to independence among the blind, and much more. A "must-have" definitive history especially recommended for college and reference libraries.

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