Volume 13, Issue 4/5. 1982

Themes:

handicapism; disability; civil rights; stereotypes; sexism; ageism; Title IX; interlocking oppressions; poverty

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Emily Strauss Watson, Janet W. Acevedo, Nancy Wernikoff, Paula Wolff, Robert Feinstein, Sara L. Heskins, Caryl-Robin Dresher, Lois Wolff, Carolynne Bethka, Nancy Gropper, Mary Ellen Tosi, Judith J. Trotta, Rosemary Kasper, Kipp Watson, Jack Reed, Rosemary Kasper, Carolynne Bethka, Glenn Anderson, Betsy Gimbal, Frieda Zames, Donna Barkman, Sally Smith, Doris Seale, Jan M. Goodman, Jamila Gaston-Colon, Geraldine L. Wilson, Lauri Johnson, Gloria Kumagai, Beryle Banfield

Materials Reviewed:

Hey, Remember Fat Glenda? by Lila Perl. Amazon / WorldCat
Indian Legacy: Native American Influence on World Life and Culture by Hermina Paotgieter. Amazon / WorldCat
Working Kids on Working by Sheila Cole. Amazon / WorldCat
Revolutionary Cuba by Terence Cannon. Amazon / WorldCat
Willie Blows a Mean Horn by Ianthe Thomas. Amazon / WorldCat
I Love You, Stupid! by Harry Mazer. Amazon / WorldCat
A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida. Amazon / WorldCat
What Do You Do When Your Mouth Won't Open? by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Amazon / WorldCat
The Dark Side of Nowhere by Genevieve Gray. Amazon / WorldCat
Picture Me a Poem by Jeanette Adams. Amazon / WorldCat
Black Child by Joyce Carol Thomas. Amazon / WorldCat
Images of Ourselves: Women with Disabilities Talking by Jo Campling, ed. Amazon / WorldCat
Mainstreaming the Hearing Impaired Child: An Educational Alternative by Janie Satzman Orlansky. Amazon / WorldCat
The Handicapped Speak by William Roth. Amazon / WorldCat
Handicapping America: Barriers to Disabled People by Frank Bowe. Amazon / WorldCat
The Hidden Minority: A Profile of Handicapped Americans by Sonny Kleinfield. Amazon / WorldCat
Rehabilitating America: Toward Independence for Disabled and Elderly People by Frank Bowe. Amazon / WorldCat
The Unexpected Minority by John Gliedman and William Roth. Amazon / WorldCat
Voices: Interviews with Handicapped People by Michael D. Orlansky and William L. Heward. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Notes from a Different Drummer by Barbara H. Baskin
The Balancing Girl by Berniece Rabe
The Bookseller's Advice by Sue Breitner
The Finger Game Miracle by Nancy Klein
Grandma's Wheelchair by Lorraine Henriod
Growl When You Say R by Muriel Stanek
My Mother is Blind by Margaret Reuter
Roly Goes Exploring by Philip Newth
What's That? by Virginie Allen Jensen
The Acorn People by Ron Jones
Alesia by Eloise Greenfield and Alesia Revis
Apple is My Sign by Mary Riskind
Battle at the Blue Line by P. C. Fredricks
Being Blind by Rebecca Marcus
Cry of the Wolf by Zane Spencer and Jay Leech
Deafness by Jane Hyman
Do Bananas Chew Gum? by Jamie Gilson
The Fastest Woman on Earth by Alida Thacher
Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly by Catherine Cookson
God, Why is She the Way She Is? by Linda Jacobs Ware
I Can't Always Hear You by Joy Zelonky
Just Like Always by Elizabeth-Ann Sachs
The Lake is on Fire by Maureen Crane Wartski
Lester's Turn by Jan Slepian
A Little Time by Anne Norris Baldwin
Max's Dream by William Mayne
Mr. Wheatfield's Loft by Isabel Langis Cusack
My Brother is Special by Maureen Crane Wartski
My Sister is Different by Betty Ren Wright
The New Boy is Blind by William E. Thomas
Paulus and the Dragon by Jean Dulieu
Please Don't Tease Me... by Jane M. Madsen and Diane Bockoras
Run from a Scarecrow by Irene Bennett Brown
Sam and his Cart by Arthur Honeyman
"Seeing" in the Dark by Elizabeth Rider Montgomery
The Seeing Stick by Jane Yolen
The Seeing Summer by Jeannette Eyerly
Seven Feet Four and Growing by H. Alton Lee
Silent Dancer by Bruce Hlibok
Through Grandpa's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
What Difference Does it Make, Danny? by Helen Young
What if You Couldn't...? A Book About Special Needs by Janet Kamien
Winners: Eight Special Young People by Dorothy Shainman Siegel
Alice with Golden Hair by Eleanor Hull
Breakaway by Ruth Hallman
Let a River Be by Betty Sue Cummings
Little Little by M. E. Kerr
OF Braces and Blessings by Bonnie Wheeler
Passing Through by Corinne Gerson
Physical Disabilities by Gilda Berger
The Quiet Revolution: The Struggle for the Rights of Disabled Americans by James Haskins and J. M. Stifle
Run, Don't Walk by Harriet May Savitz
Signs Unseen, Sounds Unheard by Carolyn Brimley Norris
A Step Further by Joni Eareckson and Steve Estes
Teaching Exceptional Children: A Special Career by Carol Teig Anker
Yes We Can! by Wally Frost

Keywords:

Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR), handicapism, disability, disability rights, civil rights, numerical analysis, Center on Human Policy, Center for Independent Living, Disabled in Action (DIA), Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, evaluation criteria, stereotypes, sexism, ageism, super crip, selection criteria, Hellen Keller, Project R. E. E. D. (Resources on Educational Equity for Disabled), Women's Action Alliance Inc., racism, Rehabilitation Act, Architectural Barriers Act, Education of All Handicapped Children Act, Ed Roberts, Judy Heumann, American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, Transbus, American Public Transit Association, Southeatern Community College vs. Davis, Terry Halderman, Board of Education vs. Rowley, Legal Services Corporation, Section 504, Title VI, Title IX, Disability Rigths and Education Defense Fund, New York City Coalition on Housing for Disabled People, Mobility Through Access, interlocking oppressions, poverty, film, Ira Wohl, Allen Rogers, Churchill Films, Beverly Shaffer, Linda Chapman, Pam LeBlanc, Freddi Stevens, Marchall Grupp, Eric Neudel, Roberto Charlton, Joaquin Padro, American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities (ACCD), Disability Rights and Education Defence Fund (DREDF), Mainstream Inc., National Information Center for the Handicapped/Closer Look, Children's Defense Fund, PACER Center Inc., National Center for Law and the Deaf, Council on Exceptional Children, People to People program, UNICEF, Educational Film Library, Filmmakers Library, Rehabfilm, The Stanfield House