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How Did You Get Here?
Hehir, Thomas; Schifter, Laura A.
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Description for How Did You Get Here?
Paperback. Chronicles the educational experiences - from early childhood through college - of sixteen students with disabilities and their paths to personal and academic success at Harvard University. The book explores common themes in their lives, as well as the crucial roles played by parents, teachers, and other professionals. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNM; JNSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
When their children were young, several parents interviewed for this book were told, “you can’t expect much from your child.” As they got older, the kids themselves often heard the same thing: that as children with disabilities, academic success would be elusive, if not impossible, for them.
How Did You Get Here? clearly refutes these common, destructive assumptions. It chronicles the educational experiences—from early childhood through college—of sixteen students with disabilities and their paths to personal and academic success at Harvard University. Th e book explores common themes in their lives—including educational strategies, technologies, and undaunted intellectual ambitions—as well ... Read more
When their children were young, several parents interviewed for this book were told, “you can’t expect much from your child.” As they got older, the kids themselves often heard the same thing: that as children with disabilities, academic success would be elusive, if not impossible, for them.
How Did You Get Here? clearly refutes these common, destructive assumptions. It chronicles the educational experiences—from early childhood through college—of sixteen students with disabilities and their paths to personal and academic success at Harvard University. Th e book explores common themes in their lives—including educational strategies, technologies, and undaunted intellectual ambitions—as well ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard Educational Publishing Group United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612507811
SKU
V9781612507811
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About Hehir, Thomas; Schifter, Laura A.
Thomas Hehir is the Silvana and Christopher Pascucci Professor of Practice in Learning Differences at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA. Laura A. Schifter is an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA. Wendy S. Harbour is the Lawrence B. Taishoff Assistant Professor of Inclusive Education and executive director of the Taishoff Center on ... Read more
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