How Did You Get Here? (eBook)

Students with Disabilities and Their Journeys to Harvard

Thomas Hehir, Laura A. Schifter, Wendy S. Harbour (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
264 Seiten
Harvard Education Press (Verlag)
978-1-61250-783-5 (ISBN)

Infos

How Did You Get Here? chronicles the educational experiences—from early childhood through college—of sixteen students with disabilities and their paths to personal and academic success at Harvard University.

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When their children were young, several parents interviewed in this book were told ';you can't expect much from your child.' As they got older, the kids themselves often heard the same thing: that as children with disabilities, academic success would be elusive, if not impossible, for them. How Did You Get Here?clearly refutes these common, destructive assumptions. It chronicles the educational experiencesfrom early childhood through collegeof sixteen students with disabilities and their paths to personal and academic success at Harvard University. The book explores common themes in their livesincluding educational strategies, technologies, and undaunted intellectual ambitionsas well as the crucial roles played by parents, teachers, and other professionals. Above all, it provides a clear and candid accountin the voices of the students themselvesof what it takes to grapple effectively with the many challenges facing young people with disabilities. A compelling and practical book,How Did You Get Here?offers clear accounts not only of the challenges and biases facing young disabled students, but also of the opportunities they found, and created, on the way to academic and personal success.

Autor

Thomas Hehir is the Silvana and Christopher Pascucci Professor of Practice in Learning Differences at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Laura A. Schifter is an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Wendy S. Harbour is the Lawrence B. Taishoff Assistant Professor of Inclusive Education and the executive director of the Taishoff Center on Inclusive Higher Education at Syracuse University.  David H. Rose is a cofounder and the chief education officer of CAST, and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Inhalt

CONTENTS Foreword ixIntroduction 1CHAPTER 1“My Mother” 15 CHAPTER 2“I Had Teachers Who Believed in Me” 49 CHAPTER 3“I Was Always Asking My Teachers for More” 71 CHAPTER 4“I Found Things to Do Outside the Classroom” 91 CHAPTER 5“I Was Always Forced to Find a Way” 103 CHAPTER 6“I Could Not Have Gotten Here Without Audio Text” 133CHAPTER 7“My Disability Shapes Who I Am” 155CHAPTER 8“I Thought I Knew Something About Disability” 179CONCLUSION “How Can More of You Get Here?” 203 Wendy S. HarbourNotes 227 Acknowledgments 235 About the Authors 237 Index 239 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2015
• Vorwort: David Rose
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
• Schlagworte: academic and personal success • american sign language • Americans with Disabilities Act • college students with disabilities • Harvard University • higher education • text-to-speech technology
• ISBN-10: 1-61250-783-2 / 1612507832
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61250-783-5 / 9781612507835