Written by Gina and Mercer Mayer Racine, Wisconsin: Golden Books Publishing Co., Inc., 1992 One of a serieis of books about disabilities attitudes
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This seventy-eight page manual addresses attitudinal and architectural access in inclusive and helpful way.
Comments closedGuidelines for Working with Persons with Disabilities Written by Harold H. Wilke Abingdon Press, 2000
Comments closed“No Steps to Heaven” begins:
Comments closedThe scene is upper Manhattan, Broadway at Reinhold Niebuhr Place, Union Theological Seminary. Union’s president, Donald Shriver, walks jauntily down the steps to the bustling street and sits down in a wheelchair brought for the experiment, thus putting himself in the place of a student with a handicap. Gazing up from his wheelchair at that imposing entrance and those five insurmountable steps, he says, “OK, carry me in,â€
Written by Harold H. Wilke
“We have a history of keeping people ‘out of sight, out of mind.'”
“Even more people are becoming alienated, and ever more of them are coming out into the open.”
“They are part of our society, not apart from it. More sharply than ever before, the idea of “mainstreaming†— keeping persons who differ from the norm within the main current of social life — is becoming a part of Western thinking.
Comments closedWritten by Shirley H. Strobel, NAMI P.O. Box 753, Waldorf MD 20604.
This is a curriculum designed to sensitize adults in church congregations to people with severe mental illness. Can be used as 12 one-hour lessons or six two-hour lessons.
Comments closedThis resource discusses the importance of using “People First Language” when speaking or writing about mental illness.
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