Specific Disabilities Books

Very unsatisfying. This is an incredibly uncertain topic, and I hoped for some definitive guidance and interpretation. Unfortunately, most of this book is simply a restatement of what anyone familiar with Section 504 would already know.

Good debate cards in this book. This Hamovitch says that School for the poor doesn't work in a Capitalist Society.

This is not worth the price. About 4 pages of information I found were worth the reading for me, a parent, not a therapist. Better designed for therapists.

This is a completely unhelpful book! It looked pretty on the outside but was seriously useless.

My problem with this book is that the title: Help Me Speak A Parents Guide to Speech and Language Therapy implies that there are speech and language activites that you can do with your child at home. This is not the case. The correct title should be Why You Should Chose Speech Therapy. This book explains problems that children have and why a child cannot hear. It pushes the need for speech therapy. Which is fine and they are needed but the title is deceptive and I wasted my money. Do not buy this book if you are looking for speech and language activites to do with your child.

I was very upset with this product because I received it with a horrifying smell. This smell makes it almost impossible to open the book to actually use it..It also makes it hard to use it in my class because everyone around it smells it also. This is absolutely disgusting!!

This book is full of blatant lies! It insists disability accomodations are only available at certain campuses--when the Americans with Disabilities Act requires them made available at ALL colleges and universities throughout America. Don't limit your opportunities and potential because the author/publisher of this guide is illiterate!

As a person with a learning disability, who HAS successfully completed her college degrees, I honestly vouch that self-advocacy IS required at any college you are accepted to and enroll at.

In addition to falsely implying that people with disabilities can only enroll at a limited number of campuses, these guides also 'forget' that students are legally required to self-advocate for their accomodations at any college campus which they are ultimately accepted to and then enroll at. No campus, unlike K-12 special education,just gives accomodations to you!

It has nothing to do with intended major or extra curricular hobbies. The self-advocacy is what ultimately allows us to receive the same accommodations which we need to successfully complete class assignments and then graduate. The advocacy also provides us with the accomodations (where also required) for on-campus living/student life...etc. College students MUST understand that their campus is legally covered by a different set of disability laws than had existed in the k-12 environment.

Now, ANY college campus only has to provide 'reasonable accommodation' to a student with disabilities. It is not under any circumstances obligated to retain every one of us wanting to earn a degree no matter how 'nice' or `hard-working' we are. We must instead prove that we can do the `regular' work at a `regular' speed' compared against people without disabilities.

Nor is it required to deal with the concerns of our parents, irrespective of how concerned they are that we be able to complete that desired degree.

If they haven't already, the last years of high school are a prime opportunity for a person with disabilities to develop our own self advocacy skills, especially in exercise at our own annual IEP meetings. We need to be the ones ourselves who are meeting with college officials. If we do not advocate for accommodations, nobody else legally can at the college environment.

College administrators simply do not have to meet with--let alone listen to parents/guardians--even while taking the tuition money!

Instead of these books, I strongly recommend "Self-Advocacy Skills for Students With Learning Disabilities: Making It Happen in College and Beyond". Henry B. Reiff explains in depth the points which I have briefly covered above, instead advocating that colleges are picked based on the institutions nationally-recognized academic credentials and your degree focus/intended degree focus so that college education will actually be worth something when you do graduate. Wanting people with disabilities ourselves knowing how to properly perform the college application and enrollment processes which will be expected, his book provides a much more realistic perspective than this so-called guide and similar con-jobs.

Their books are about as helpful as encouraging somebody to narrow down and then pick a college based on 'Is it located on a round earth?'.

Being into my 7th month of recovery from bilateral knee replacement I found this book ridiculous and extremely negative - not at all encouraging. The information comes across as official and usual, but every patient is different. My experience, which I thought out thorougly before making a decison, has been excellent - if I have to do this again, I will. It is a challenging recovery and there is pain, but there are so many good meds out there to help with pain managemnt these days - and it is a pain that is going to come to an end. I stood the morning after my surgery, walked 4 days later, did stairs 10 days out from the surgery and returned to my desk job 60 days later. Recovery is hard work - daily work for a long time. Today I rode my exercise bike for 30 minutes! I have been on my feet nonstop for over 2 hours at a time. I feel better than I have in years. Am I pain free ?- not yet. It takes the muscles, tendons , and ligaments a long time to forgive their trauma. But talk with your doctors, talk with rehab people - ask all the questions before hand - but you can get well. Bilateral knee replacement does not have to be the worst experience of your life!