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Title: Everybody's Different : Understanding and Changing Our Reactions to Disabilities
Publisher: Brookes Publishing
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1557663599
ISBN 13: 9781557663597
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Good
Weight: 0.95 pounds

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Sensitive and practical, this book openly discusses mental and emotional obstacles to effective communication between people with and without disabilities and examines ways to become more at ease with the concept of disability. Featuring activities and exercises that encourage self-examination, this guide helps people to create more enriching personal relationships and to work toward a fully inclusive society.

Overcome:
questions
fears
stereotypes

Enhance:
personal growth
professional development
community outreach

About the Author

Nancy B. Miller is a social worker and anthropologist who has worked with children with disabilities and their families form more than 30 years. One of Dr. Miller's major interests has been the influence of American culture on attitudes about disabilities. She has been on the UCLA faculty for more than 25 years and has developed and taught courses in developmental disabilities in the School of Social Welfare, was Social work Training Coordinator with the University Affiliated Program, which provides interdisciplinary training in disabilitites for graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines, and was Social Work and Clinical Research Coordinator in the UCLA Department of Pediatrics Early Intervention Program. She was a consultant for UCLA Child Care Services for 20 years.

Dr. Miller is the author of Nobody's Perfect : Living and Growing with Children Who Have Special Needs, which received a Child Magazine Best Parenting Book Award for Excellence in Family Issues.

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