How Did You Get Here? bookcover

How Did You Get Here?

Students with Disabilities and Their Journeys to Harvard
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Description

When their children were young, several parents interviewed in this book were told "you can't expect much from your child." As they got older, the kids themselves often heard the same thing: that as children with disabilities, academic success would be elusive, if not impossible, for them. How Did You Get Here? clearly refutes these common, destructive assumptions. It chronicles the educational experiences--from early childhood through college--of sixteen students with disabilities and their paths to personal and academic success at Harvard University. The book explores common themes in their lives--including educational strategies, technologies, and undaunted intellectual ambitions--as well as the crucial roles played by parents, teachers, and other professionals. Above all, it provides a clear and candid account--in the voices of the students themselves--of what it takes to grapple effectively with the many challenges facing young people with disabilities. A compelling and practical book, How Did You Get Here?offers clear accounts not only of the challenges and biases facing young disabled students, but also of the opportunities they found, and created, on the way to academic and personal success.

Product Details

PublisherHarvard Education PR
Publish DateMarch 01, 2015
Pages264
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781612507811
Dimensions8.9 X 6.0 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds

About the Author

Thomas Hehir is the Silvana and Christopher Pascucci Professor of Practice in Learning Differences at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Laura A. Schifter is an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Wendy S. Harbour is the Lawrence B. Taishoff Assistant Professor of Inclusive Education and executive director of the Taishoff Center on Inclusive Higher Education at Syracuse University.

Reviews

"How Did You Get Here? Students with Disabilities and Their Journeys to Harvard is an inspiring must-read for all teachers, teacher candidates, administrators, and other professionals serving exceptional students, as it instills the important framework of Universal Design for Learning, self-determination, and other effective strategies for inspiring students with diverse disabilities."--Su-Je Cho & Ariane Rawanduzy, Teachers College Record

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