Title: Reflections From a Different JourneyAuthor: KleinISBN: 0071422692Category: ParentingTrim Size: 6 x 9UPC: 639785385547Price: $18.95[Inside flaps]Most parents of children with disabilities lack personal experience with adults with disabilities. Hearing from people who have lived the disability experience can provide all parents with essential information about the possibilities for their children. Reflections from a Different Journey comprises forty inspiring and realistic essays written by successful adult role models who share what it is like to grow up with a disability.Compiled by two award-winning advocates for the disabled, each eloquently written essay is an insightful source of wisdom, inspiration, and emotional support as well as a rare glimpse inside the lives and minds of people with many different disabilities--cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism, learning disabilities, deafness, blindness, mental illness, developmental disabilities, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, congenital amputation, and chronic health conditions.In preparing their essays, the authors were each asked to write about something they wished their own parents had read or been told while they were growing up. The essays, which demonstrate that, first and foremost, people with disabilities are human beings with the same needs and desires as people without disabilities, are arranged thematically:"Love Me and Accept Me as I Am" essays express appreciation for parents who provided unconditionalbelonging and accepted them as whole people--including that part of them considered to be a disability. "Parents Are the Most Important Experts" essays describe how their parents addressed their unique needs and became the most important experts in their