mentally handicapped

Offers a comprehensive overview of a child's language needs from kindergarten through middle school and explains how the communication problems associated with Down syndrome impact those needs, with practical suggestions designed to help teachers deal with those challenges and meet their students' needs.

A young boy describes the experiences of his slow learning younger brother at school and at home.

A girl expresses her sadness at being called a "retard" by people who do not know how loving and self-reliant she is.

A collection of essays presenting a variety of, often conflicting, viewpoints concerning the care and treatment of the mentally disabled.

Ellen Grae is an imaginative girl in whom simple-minded Ira confides. Ellen finds herself greatly confused between her affection for Ira and her sense of what is right.

A young girl describes her relationship with her brain-damaged brother.

After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Bryn tries to make a new life when her taciturn father moves them to a rural community in Canada to live with her elderly aunt and her cousin Winnie, a loving girl with Down syndrome.

A feisty woman and a retarded youth are brought together by their attempts to save a polluted river.

Neil's life turns upside down when his parents take his retarded sister out of an institution and bring her home to stay.

Reveals the inner world of a 13-year-old mentally handicapped girl.