A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities

(Hardback)

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Written for young people with disabilities and the people who care for and educate them, this unique resource offers both inspiration and advice to help disabled teenagers successfully meet the special social and academic challenges of high school and to find their paths into the future. Compiling a wealth of expertise on a range of issues in high school and all the accompanying major life events, this edited volume offers guidance, support, experience, and encouragement, providing everything from explanation of legal rights to guidance on effective study habits. Through the voices of disabled students and their teachers and family members, the book provides insights into the internal dilemmas that students face as well as problems they may encounter in the classroom, at home, and in society. This book is written to offer tools that empower students with disabilities face their challenges while providing educators, family members and friends insights into issues these students may encounter during their high school years. Every high school teacher, administrator, counselor, and librarian should familiarize themselves with the issues explored on these pages. The book is divided into five topical sections that each addresses a set of related issues. Section I provides a history of disabilitities across different times and cultures and a discussion of the legal rights of students with disabilities. Section II discusses the cultural and social issues disabled teens face in modern society and looks at representations in film and literature. Section III is devoted to the many interactions and relationships faced in high school, including dating, socialization, and extracurricular activities. Section IV addresses issues related to academic success and the concluding chapter offers tools for advocacy and empowerful. Appendicies complete this multi-facted volume with lists of additional readings and on-line resources for students with disabilities.

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[O]ffers insights into the internal dilemmas students face and the external problems that may encounter in the classroom, at home, and in society. Compiling information on issues in school, as well as accompanying life events, it provides disabled teens with guidance, support and encouragement.-Library Media Connection
[O]ffers inspiration and advice to help disabled teens successfully meet the social and academic challenges of high school....It offers guidance, support and experience, providing everything from explanation of legal rights to guidance on effective study habits....[p]rovides insights into the internal dilemmas students face and problems they may encounter in the classroom, at home and in society.-Mansfield News Journal
A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities is a valuable resource for the disabled and for those who work with them. It has an important place in middle, junior, and senior high school collections which serve these populations.-Catholic Library World
At first glance this appears to be a book instructing teachers how to make high school a better experience for students with special needs. It is much more than that. Written largely by students with disabilities, this volume provides unique insights into how to navigate the treacherous waters of adolescence if one just happens to have special needs. The book covers a wide array of issues including handling difficult teachers, advocating for self, setting high expectations for self and others, use of the library and media centers, extracurricular activities, dating and sexuality, and life after high school. The authors have captured not only what it is like to be a teenager with special needs and how to survive the high school years, but how to revel in them and live to the fullest....The students' writings are particularly poignant and uplifting. This is a good read for students, parents, and teachers alike. Recommended. General readers and upper-division undergraduates and above.-Choice
This guide is for students with disabilities of all types who need some advice on how to become advocates for themselves, how to take advantage of the various forms of assistance available to them, and how to have faith in their own historical background and legal rights, culture and society, interactions and relationships, academic issues and advocacy for all....Though the title directs students to this book, it could also be considered an addition to a professional library. Recommended.-Library Media Connection
Through personal narratives and researched articles, this book addresses a wide range of issues for students with disabilities in high schools....Teachers, librarians, and administrators wanting to be more sensitive and knowledgeable to students in need will benefit from this text.-VOYA
Worthwhile additions for schools with an integrated curriculum.-School Library Journal
"Offers insights into the internal dilemmas students face and the external problems that may encounter in the classroom, at home, and in society. Compiling information on issues in school, as well as accompanying life events, it provides disabled teens with guidance, support and encouragement."-Library Media Connection
"Offers inspiration and advice to help disabled teens successfully meet the social and academic challenges of high school....It offers guidance, support and experience, providing everything from explanation of legal rights to guidance on effective study habits....provides insights into the internal dilemmas students face and problems they may encounter in the classroom, at home and in society."-Mansfield News Journal
"[O]ffers insights into the internal dilemmas students face and the external problems that may encounter in the classroom, at home, and in society. Compiling information on issues in school, as well as accompanying life events, it provides disabled teens with guidance, support and encouragement."-Library Media Connection
"[O]ffers inspiration and advice to help disabled teens successfully meet the social and academic challenges of high school....It offers guidance, support and experience, providing everything from explanation of legal rights to guidance on effective study habits....[p]rovides insights into the internal dilemmas students face and problems they may encounter in the classroom, at home and in society."-Mansfield News Journal
"A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities is a valuable resource for the disabled and for those who work with them. It has an important place in middle, junior, and senior high school collections which serve these populations."-Catholic Library World
"This guide is for students with disabilities of all types who need some advice on how to become advocates for themselves, how to take advantage of the various forms of assistance available to them, and how to have faith in their own historical background and legal rights, culture and society, interactions and relationships, academic issues and advocacy for all....Though the title directs students to this book, it could also be considered an addition to a professional library. Recommended."-Library Media Connection
"Through personal narratives and researched articles, this book addresses a wide range of issues for students with disabilities in high schools....Teachers, librarians, and administrators wanting to be more sensitive and knowledgeable to students in need will benefit from this text."-VOYA
"Worthwhile additions for schools with an integrated curriculum."-School Library Journal
"At first glance this appears to be a book instructing teachers how to make high school a better experience for students with special needs. It is much more than that. Written largely by students with disabilities, this volume provides unique insights into how to navigate the treacherous waters of adolescence if one just happens to have special needs. The book covers a wide array of issues including handling difficult teachers, advocating for self, setting high expectations for self and others, use of the library and media centers, extracurricular activities, dating and sexuality, and life after high school. The authors have captured not only what it is like to be a teenager with special needs and how to survive the high school years, but how to revel in them and live to the fullest....The students' writings are particularly poignant and uplifting. This is a good read for students, parents, and teachers alike. Recommended. General readers and upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice

Author Bio

CYNTHIA ANN BOWMAN is an Associate Professor of Literacy Education at Ashland University in Ohio. She is the author of Using Literature to Help Troubled Teens Cope with Health Issues (Greenwood, 2001) and Disability Matters: Legal and Pedagogical Issues of Disability in Education (Praeger, 2002). PAUL T. JAEGER is a Research Associate for Information Use Management and Policy Institute of the School of Information Studies at Florida State University. He is co-author with Bowman of Disability Matters.