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We walk : life with severe autism
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ISBN: 1501751409 1501751395 1501751417 9781501751417 9781501751400 9781501751394 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca : ILR Press,

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in this collection of essays, the author writes openly about her experience as a mother of a now 21 year old son with severe autism. The author's human emotion drives through each page and challenges commonly held ideas that define autism either as a disease or as neurodiversity. The book is inspired by the author's own questions: What is the place of intellectually and developmentally disabled people in society? What responsibilities do we, as citizens and human beings, have to one another? Who should decide for those who cannot decide for themselves? What is the meaning of religion to someone with no abstract language? Exploring these questions, the book examines social issues such as inclusion, religion, therapeutics, and friendship through the lens of severe autism.


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Chasing the intact mind : how the severely autistic and intellectually disabled were excluded from the debates that affect them most
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ISBN: 0197683878 0197683851 019768386X Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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In 'Chasing the Intact Mind', Amy Lutz traces the history of the 'intact mind' concept, explaining how it influences current disability policy and practice in the United States. Lutz describes how we got to this moment, where the severely autistics are elided out of public discourse and the intensive, disability-specific supports they need defunded or closed altogether. Lutz argues that focusing on the intact mind and marginalizing those with severe disability reproduces historic patterns of discrimination that yoked human worth to intelligence, and that it is only by making space for the impaired mind that we will be able to resolve these ongoing clashes - as well as even larger questions of personhood, dependency, and care.


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The Children of Immigrants at School : A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe

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