William.Mcqueen@f415.n259.z1.fidonet.org (William Mcqueen) (07/18/90)
Index Number: 9219
I have gone back to school at the Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education following a serious fall three
years ago. I have decided to work in the field of educat-
ing adults.
I am involved in a summer course which studies how to
plan programmes, courses and conferences for adults.
I want to construct two basic and simple bibliographies:
(1) Books which would explain the disabilities of all
kinds which people experience and tell the stories of
their lives to persons who do NOT have a disability; and
(2) Books which would help teachers, facilitators of
adult learning in constructing various kinds of pro-
grammes, academic programmes, conferences of any kind for
the general public.
This would mean a conscious consideration and ap-
proach to including other abled persons in these activi-
ties, including the spiritual and physical characteris-
tics which would have to be taken into consideration.
The books in the library are the pits. I would great-
ly appreciate if anyone has a special book [or a magazine
article] (or more if you like) which they think explains
their disability - and it doesn't have to be technical,
although it could be technical - or the lives of other abled
persons to persons who have not experience that disability to
send me as full a publishing record as they can. I want a
really practical list which can be the basis of breaking
down barriers and assist people who construct these kinds of
programmes everywhere in the society to reconsider their
teaching/learning approaches in the classroom, conference
centre or wherever and to change them.
If you felt you could say why you think this book
does this or that, or what it meant to you - just a word
or two - it might be helpful in making up the list. And
then of course I would try to make it available to anyone
who wanted it.
Thanks very much everybody.
[An alternate address is: wmcqueen@utoroise.bitnet]
Thursday, July 5, 1990 07:59
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Internet: William.Mcqueen@f415.n259.z1.fidonet.orgAnn.Parsons@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Ann Parsons) (07/19/90)
Index Number: 9292
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
Hi William,
Well there are scads and scads of good books out there. My trouble is I can
never remember Authors. I can give you titles though.
1. The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller. This book needs no explanation.
2. "The Miracle Worker", a play, don't ask me the author. It's about Annie
Sullivan.
3. My eyes Have a Cold Nose, (check author) is about a blind guy and his live,
a lawyer, I think.
4. Lovie, This is a honey of a book about an autistic child. (check author)
5. A Patch Of Blue, either the movie or the book, good story, old fashioned but
ok. (check author)
6. Any of the "Life Goes On series" on TV.
7. Language In Thought And Action, by S.I. Hayakawa. This is an excellent book
for learning about communication. It was required by my Freshman English Proff
in college.
8. To Race The Wind, about a blind guy's college experiences.
9. If you Could See What I Hear? by Tom Sullivan, blind musician.
I could probablly come up with more, but these occurred at once. Hope they're
helpful. Sorry about the authors, but....
Take care, see you on-line.
Ann P.
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Internet: Ann.Parsons@f204.n260.z1.fidonet.orgMarda.Anderson@f151.n321.z1.fidonet.org (Marda Anderson) (07/19/90)
Index Number: 9308
The author of "The Miracle Worker" is, I think, William Gibson. "To Race
the Wind" was written by Harold Krentz. Sorry, can't help you with the
other authors. Along the same lines as "To Race the Wind" is an older
book by Riobert Russell called "To Catch an Angel". Not bad. There are
lots of others. "Deaf Like Me" is supposed to be excellent. I'd like to
read that one sometime. Don't know the author. There's another one,
somewhat older I think, called "In This Sign" about a deaf couple. I
learned a lot from it. Two other books I enjoyed were "Karen" and "With
Love from Karen" both by Marie Killilea, a woman who was instrumental in
starting United [DCerebral Palsy. I've read others along those lines but
the authors and even some of the titles are escaping me at the moment.
If I think of more, I'll contribute them to the list. Have you ever read
the Dale Evans book "Angel Unaware"? It's twenty or thirty years old but
it is interesting in that it deals with things from a spiritual
perspective.
marda
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