Disability Across the Developmental Lifespan, Second Edition

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This is the only text to examine the experience of disability in relation to theories of human growthand development. It provides a foundational and comprehensive examination of disability thatencompasses the intellectual, psychiatric, physical, and social arenas. The second edition is updatedto underscore its versatility as an introductory text about the developmental tasks of people withdisabilities for all the helping professions. Reorganized to illuminate the book's interdisciplinary focus, it includes new demographics, new case studies and first-person accounts, discussions on culturalaspects of disabilities, family concerns, and more.The text delivers practice guidelines for each of the conventional life stages and describes thedevelopmental tasks of individuals with disabilities (IWDs). It emphasizes the positive trend in theperception of IWDs as normal and underscores the fact that IWDs have the same motivations, emotions, and goals as those without disabilities. Learning activities, suggestions for writing exercises, and websites for further study reinforce learning, as do graphs and charts illustrating trends anddemographics.