Responding to the challenge : current trends and international issues in developmental disabilities : essays in honor of Gunner Dybwad / Hank Bersani, Jr., editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dybwad, Gunnar.

Bersani, Hank A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with mental disabilities.

Developmentally disabled.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xviii, 238 pages : portrait ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Brookline Books, [1999]

Summary:

This collection of essays and reports were contributed by the colleagues of Professor Gunnar Dybwad on the occasion of his 90th birthday to celebrate his lifetime of work with persons who have intellectual limitations, their families and the professionals who have provided service and support to them. The 24 papers present the very broad range of his contributions and the ground breaking work that continues to be done in so many places. The papers are in areas such as legal issues to free persons with intellectual limitations from deadend lives in closed institutions to living normal lives in their community, engaging in self advocacy on their own behalf and with the concerns of their families. His arena spanned the globe: in Europe, Africa, the Americas, the Far East.

Contents:

Section I Conceptual Issues

1 The Medical Model: A Mostly Historical Discussion / Allen C. Crocker 3

2 The Role of Science in Advancing the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities / Trevor R. Parmenter, Ph.D. 10

3 Architectural Trends and Values: From Humanizing Institutions to Inclusive Communities / Elaine Ostroff 23

4 The Metaphor of Mental Retardation: Rethinking Ability and Disability / Douglas Biklen 35

Section II Legal Issues

5 From Deficiency to Equality: How are Canada's New Constitutional Protections Working for Persons with Disabilities? / Orville Endicott 55

6 The Rights Revolution: From Isolation To Wyatt, Wyoming, And Beyond / Stanley S. Herr 69

7 On the Closing of Mansfield Training School / Robert Perske 91

Section III International Issues

8 People with Mental Retardation and Europe 2000: Comparing Cultural Trends and Different Experiences / Ann-Margrethe Brandt 97

9 Getting There: How Are We Doing Internationally? / Walter Eigner, Helmut Spudich 104

10 Overcoming Challenges of Organizational Retardation: A Convoluted Approach to Addressing the Eye Care Needs of People with Mental Retardation in Israel / Richard E. Isralowitz, Ph.D. 109

11 Meeting the Challenge of Intellectual Disability: An International Perspective / Peter Mittler 116

12 Discussion on the Future Design of Residential Care for Persons with Mental Retardation in Japan / Akihiko Takahashi, M.D. 123

13 The 'Lebenshilfe' in Germany / Tom Mutters 127

14 The Situation of Mentally Handicapped Persons and Their Families in Eastern Europe / Tom Mutters 133

Section IV Self-Advocacy Issues

15 On Being Left Out / Barb Goode 145

16 Gentle Words To Self-Advocate Friends / Robert Perske 147

17 Who Teaches Us? / Michael J. Kennedy 151

18 Tokenism

It Doesn't Look Good!!! / Liz Obermayer 155

19 Who Speaks for Whom? Issues of Advocacy / Ann Shearer, Alison Wertheimer 158

20 Not to Yield / Robert Williams Parsons Cutler, Jr. 164

Section V Family Issues

21 An Unanticipated Life: The Impact of Lifelong Caregiving / Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Marsha Mailick Seltzer 173

22 Gender, Disability, and Community Life: Toward a Feminist Analysis / Rannveig Traustadottir 189

23 In Her Own Home The Experiences of Catherine Schaefer / Zana Marie Lutfiyya 207

24 Impatience, Mountains and the Moon / Gerald Provencal 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1571290753

OCLC:

41504511