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Making A Place For Kids With Disabilities
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Dale Borman Fink
Book Code: G826
ISBN: 0-89789-826-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-826-3
224 pages
Bergin & Garvey Paperback
Publication: 7/30/2001
List Price: $35.00 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The author, a well-respected authority on special needs and inclusion of children with disabilities, weaves a pattern from his own personal experiences and practice into the form of a qualitative case study from the fictionally named community of Wabash....This book is well written and highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate students in special education, recreation, and adaptive physical education, as well as for health care and education practitioners.
    —Choice
  • The lessons learned by this researcher will benefit us all as we seek to serve all children in our out-of-school time programs.
    —National School-Age Care Alliance/School-Age Review     Fall 2001
  • Endorsement From Stanley D. Klein, Ph.D.
    Education Director, Abilities Expo
    "Special Needs Expert" at Parents.com
    Cofounder, Former Editor in Chief, Exceptional Parent Magazine:     Making a Place for Kids With Disabilities is an extraordinary combination of beautiful storytelling and perceptive research that education and recreation professionals need to read. It will stimulate their creativity, as well as help them confront resistances, in the service of full participation of all children with disabilities in the joys of friendships and play. This book also reminds us all to place a much greater priority on facilitating social interactions among all children of varying abilities.
  • Endorsement From Carl J. Dunst, Ph.D.
    Research Scientist
    Orelena Hawks Pucket Institute
    Asheville NC:     The book illustrates over and over that focusing on children's abilities and not disabilities increases the likelihood that participation will be enjoyable and competency-enhancing. Making a Place for Kids With Disabilities makes a significant contribution to our understanding of full community participation. Dr. Fink is commended for his insightful work.
Description: Dale Borman Fink, the author of the only book on inclusion of youth with special needs in before and after school child care, now presents the first book to examine the experiences of children with disabilities participating in youth programs alongside their typical peers. This book is the product of Fink's quest to learn as much as possible about one community's experience with the inclusion of children with special needs in youth programs. Using a case study technique, he probes into the issues and dynamics that influence the increasing participation of kids with disabilities in such activities as Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and park and recreation programs. Fink enters a Midwestern community of 14,000, which he calls Wabash, interviewing the parents, the professionals, the peers, the community leaders, and the volunteers about the participation of children with disabilities. How does a girl who relies on an augmentative communication device take part in a Brownie troop? What do other tee-ball players think about a teammate with cerebral palsy? Why does one family refuse to use the local drop-in recreation center? Readers will learn what practices are evolving and what opportunities are being overlooked. Fink makes his own biases and interpretations plain, and he shares part of his own biography along the way. But it is the voices and experiences of the people of Wabash, rather than those of the author, that invest this book with such power about and such importance to all who are concerned youth with special needs.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Inclusive Recreation and Sports Enter The Mainstream
  • Lindy's Wish
  • Embarking on a Qualitative Case Study
  • Entering Wabash
  • Batter Up? Fun Versus Competition In The Park and Recreation Department's Baseball Leagues
  • The Youth Recreation Center: Many Drop In; One Family Opts Out
  • On My Honor, I Will Try
  • "Sensei, Permission to Join Class?"
  • Answering MY Own Questions: Conclusions from the Case Study
  • Which Way Forward?
  • End Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
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