Most parents of children with disabilities lack personal experience with adults with disabilities. Hearing from people who have lived the disability experience can provide all parents with essential information about the possibilities for their children. Reflections from a Different Journey includes 40 resourceful and realistic essays written by successful adult role models who share what it is like to have grown up with a disability. Each eloquently written essay is an insightful source of wisdom, inspiration, and emotional support as well as a rare glimpse inside the lives and minds of people with many different disabilities - cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism, learning disabilities, deafness, blindness, mental illness, developmental disabilities, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, congenital amputation, and chronic health conditions.

Authors include Stanley D. Klein, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and educator, who founded DisABILITIESBOOKS, Inc. in 2002 and serves as Director of the company, and John D. Kemp, a successful attorney and advocate, who was born without arms and legs. The foreword is written by Marlee Matlin, the Academy Award winning actress who is deaf.

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