Don't Call Me Special: A First Look at Disability
Author(s): Pat Thomas
This text looks at disability mainly from the perspective of the disabled child, their families and their helpers. It should also be relevant to the able-bodied child, helping to give them a platform to better understand and learn to support the disabled children around them.
Product Information
This picture book introduces key concepts and ideas about disability in an accessible and imaginative way... Issues such as preconceptions, forms of disability, types of school, learning disabilities and attitudes towards disability are explored using a gentle but effective style. -- Booktrusted 20021001
Pat Thomas is a trained psychotherapist, Naturopath, journalist and mother. After working as a journalist and broadcaster in the USA, she now works in the field of women's health and child development and writes for various publications including Practical Parenting. Her book 'MY Bees: My Family's Changing' was the winner of The English 4-11 Awards.
General Fields
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- : Hachette Children's Books
- : Hodder Wayland
- : 0.133
- : 16 May 2002
- : 208mm X 133mm X 5mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Pat Thomas
- : Paperback
- : Lesley Harker
- : 362.4
- : 32
- : colour illustrations