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Disability Is Natural: Revolutionary Common Sense for Raising Successful Children With Disabilities
In this user-friendly book, parents learn revolutionary common sense techniques for raising successful children with disabilities. When we recognize that disability is a natural part of the human experience, new attitudes lead to new actions for successful lives at home, in school and in communities. When parents replace today's conventional wisdom with the common sense values and creative thinking detailed in this book, all children with disabilities (regardless of age or type of disability) can live the life of their dreams. Readers will learn how to define a child by his or her strengths- instead of a disability-related problem; and how to create new and improved partnerships with educators, health care professionals, family and friends.
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First published March 28, 2001
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March 26, 2017
This book tore down everything I thought I knew and put something better in its place.
October 8, 2017
This book and its author are a really good example of "talking the talk without walking the walk," or if you prefer, "burying a kernel of truth in so much garbage it totally overshadows the truth and alienates the reader.
The author was the featured speaker at a workshop I attended for people with disabilities and their families who wanted to become better advocates for themselves and their loved ones. We had read this book before her visit, and while I can't of course speak for anybody else present, I myself found the book amateurishly and tediously written.
I was quite willing to overlook the lackluster writing and say that the worst thing about it was its over-simplistic, one-size-fits-all, I'm-okay-you're-okay rah-rah-ness and assumed I would get a much better impression of Snow once I'd heard her presentation and talked with her in person.
I was wrong. Snow's philosophy is even more simplistic and unrealistic in person than it is in writing. What's more, it's coupled with a combative, confrontational, and rude personality. I witnessed firsthand her sneering contempt for a man who had won medals in Special Olympics, because she hates the idea of the Special Olympics. I watched her badger a mother as to why the mother's severely physically and mentally impaired son wasn't wearing a watch, regardless of the fact that he cannot tell time. And I was on the receiving end of her attempt to use the fact that I cannot see to try and make me believe that my brother, who was sitting right across from me, was laughing at me. He was not, and he was as shocked and upset as I was.
This author has no business advocating for anybody. She is an angry, bitter woman who has not drunk her own Kool-Aid yet demands that everybody else swallow it down. She isn't a disability advocate, she's a denier and a bully, and this book is a farce. And it's a shame, because disability awareness and inclusion is a very important and laudable cause. But we do not need these kind of tactics.
The author was the featured speaker at a workshop I attended for people with disabilities and their families who wanted to become better advocates for themselves and their loved ones. We had read this book before her visit, and while I can't of course speak for anybody else present, I myself found the book amateurishly and tediously written.
I was quite willing to overlook the lackluster writing and say that the worst thing about it was its over-simplistic, one-size-fits-all, I'm-okay-you're-okay rah-rah-ness and assumed I would get a much better impression of Snow once I'd heard her presentation and talked with her in person.
I was wrong. Snow's philosophy is even more simplistic and unrealistic in person than it is in writing. What's more, it's coupled with a combative, confrontational, and rude personality. I witnessed firsthand her sneering contempt for a man who had won medals in Special Olympics, because she hates the idea of the Special Olympics. I watched her badger a mother as to why the mother's severely physically and mentally impaired son wasn't wearing a watch, regardless of the fact that he cannot tell time. And I was on the receiving end of her attempt to use the fact that I cannot see to try and make me believe that my brother, who was sitting right across from me, was laughing at me. He was not, and he was as shocked and upset as I was.
This author has no business advocating for anybody. She is an angry, bitter woman who has not drunk her own Kool-Aid yet demands that everybody else swallow it down. She isn't a disability advocate, she's a denier and a bully, and this book is a farce. And it's a shame, because disability awareness and inclusion is a very important and laudable cause. But we do not need these kind of tactics.
October 13, 2013
This book changed my thoughts regarding raising my son. I gained a new freedom in learning to make my own decisions while consulting with contemporary thinking. I was honored to meet Mrs. Snow and hear her speak. She's changing next generations of thinkers!
January 12, 2009
Must read for anyone who cares about raising kids with disabilities.
March 23, 2014
I could jot out this book down!!! I read it twice!!! It has changed the way I think about kids with disabilities.
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