Unique in its creativity and depth of understanding, The Colors of Learning will change the way that teachers think about and react to children’s artwork. Promoting the integration of visual art into allearly childhood curriculum areas, this volume will help early childhood professionals present in-depth art experiences to children so that they become engrossed in expressing their ideas and newly learned concepts through art media. This user-friendly volume features actua...

Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's s...

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best characterized as managing the repercussions for variable human populations. A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of disability as an outpouring of professional, political, and representational efforts to fix, correct, eliminate, ...

In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity s...

The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book’s contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global present, in essays that explore how disability might be imagined as participant in the “complex elaboration of difference,” rather than something gone awry in...

Sharon Mitchell sat and looked at the man who was going to change her life. He was mesmerizing.'So you want to be rich, thin and happy?' he asked.Sharon nodded as she stared past him to look at the Buddha statue behind, and wondered how she, an ordinary mother and wife, from an ordinary suburb, had ended up sitting with a monk on the dry, hard dirt of a remote town in Southeast Asia.'I can help you with that,' the monk said, 'because your journey is actually the uni...

How far would YOU go to get what you believed you deserved?Jackson saw how some people had it all. Life came so easily to his wife's privileged family.Would it kill them to share more of their bounty with him?Maybe.When a Plan Comes Together is a 90 page story. You'll get to know Jackson and his struggles, and how far he'll go to get what he deserves.

She thought surviving meant they were safe. She was wrong.After surviving a brutal kidnapping, Elizabeth is determined to protect her son and reclaim their quiet life. No more strangers. No more threats. Just safety.But safety is a fragile illusion.A courtroom mandate forces her to open their home to a psychologist and a social worker—two people who claim to help but begin asking the wrong questions. Her parenting. Her past. Her sanity.When ...

She knows what it's like to be left behind. That's why she said yes.When a silent little girl is abandoned at court, Anna isn't the obvious choice to take her in. But something about the child feels painfully familiar—and impossible to walk away from.She thinks it's temporary. Just until the system finds a better option. But then a figure from her past resurfaces—the one she thought she'd escaped for good.He's watching. Waiting. And the closer he ge...

She swore she'd never become her mother. But some legacies refuse to let go.Sally's childhood wasn't a childhood at all. Cold nights in the backseat of a car. Empty cupboards. A mother who disappeared when she was needed most. By twelve, she was the one holding the family together―barely.Years later, Sally does the unthinkable―the one thing people say no mother should ever do. But what if it was the only way to protect her children?So she l...

A single dad. A boy with autism. A dedicated teacher. Can they be what each other needs?After suddenly receiving custody of his five year old son, Ben must learn how to be a dad. The fact that he'd even fathered a child was news to him.Not only does this mean restructuring his sixty-hour workweek and becoming responsible for another human being, but Kyle is autistic.Enter the school system and a shaky beginning. Under the guidance of a gifted teache...

A frustrated child. No way to communicate. His aggression boils over.Manny is not like other children. He doesn't talk. He doesn't leave the house. His parents desperately try to arrange their world so that Manny does not get upset. Because, when he does, well, the aggression was getting worse.Too many times Tomas had to leave work to rescue his wife from the havoc of their son's meltdowns. At ten, Manny was becoming difficult to handle.Passing by a...