"...researched like and referenced like a text book, but written in lay terms to hold the interest of both parents and professionals." -- Exceptional Parent, May 2001"...well grounded and well researched...a remarkably thorough treatment of a timely and significant topic. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners." -- Choice"Best practice is accomplished when values drive perspectives and attitudes. The book from cover to cover emphasizes the value, to "confront bigotry in all its ism forms." Everyone who reads the book will realize that, whatever differences may appear, the differences are not in kind, but only in degree, This realization is enough for the book to have achieved its goal." -- Sheila Saravanabhavan, Virginia State University Disability Studies Quarterly, Winter 2001

• Chapter 1 Why Change Attitudes?; Chapter 2 Issues of Language and Terminology; Chapter 3 The Minority Group and Medical Model Paradigms; Chapter 4 Early Attitudes and Their Legacies; Chapter 5 Disabilities and Common Sense Approaches; Chapter 6 Critical Educational Practices for Changing Negative Attitudes;

"...researched like and referenced like a text book, but written in lay terms to hold the interest of both parents and professionals." -- Exceptional Parent, May 2001"...well grounded and well researched...a remarkably thorough treatment of a timely and significant topic. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners." -- Choice"Best practice is accomplished when values drive perspectives and attitudes. The book from cover to cover emphasizes the value, to "confront bigotry in all its ism forms." Everyone who reads the book will realize that, whatever differences may appear, the differences are not in kind, but only in degree, This realization is enough for the book to have achieved its goal." -- Sheila Saravanabhavan, Virginia State University Disability Studies Quarterly, Winter 2001

• Chapter 1 Why Change Attitudes?; Chapter 2 Issues of Language and Terminology; Chapter 3 The Minority Group and Medical Model Paradigms; Chapter 4 Early Attitudes and Their Legacies; Chapter 5 Disabilities and Common Sense Approaches; Chapter 6 Critical Educational Practices for Changing Negative Attitudes;

"...researched like and referenced like a text book, but written in lay terms to hold the interest of both parents and professionals." -- Exceptional Parent, May 2001"...well grounded and well researched...a remarkably thorough treatment of a timely and significant topic. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and practitioners." -- Choice"Best practice is accomplished when values drive perspectives and attitudes. The book from cover to cover emphasizes the value, to "confront bigotry in all its ism forms." Everyone who reads the book will realize that, whatever differences may appear, the differences are not in kind, but only in degree, This realization is enough for the book to have achieved its goal." -- Sheila Saravanabhavan, Virginia State University Disability Studies Quarterly, Winter 2001

• Chapter 1 Why Change Attitudes?; Chapter 2 Issues of Language and Terminology; Chapter 3 The Minority Group and Medical Model Paradigms; Chapter 4 Early Attitudes and Their Legacies; Chapter 5 Disabilities and Common Sense Approaches; Chapter 6 Critical Educational Practices for Changing Negative Attitudes;