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Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. The Disability Rights Movement: An Overview -- 2. Mentally Disabled Individuals Must Receive Minimum Levels of Care Within Institutions -- 3. Mandating Minimum Levels of Care Could Impede Care in Institutions -- 4. States Cannot Hold Individuals in an Institution if They Do Not Present a Threat to Themselves or -- 5. The Court's Ruling on Institutionalization of the Mentally Disabled Lacks Strength -- 6. A Man Wrongly Held in an Institution Recounts His Life and His Struggle to Be Released -- 7. Individuals with Mental Disabilities Have the Right to Live in a Community Instead of an Institut -- 8. Students Have the Right to Receive a Free Public Education Regardless of Disability or Cost -- 9. The Reauthorized IDEA Should Mandate an Equal, Integrated Education for All Children -- 10. The Mother of a Student with Learning Disabilities Calls for More Integrated Learning Environmen -- 11. Students with Disabilities Cannot Be Moved from Their Educational Placement Without Proper Evalu -- 12. Schools Must Appropriately Discipline Students with Disabilities Within the Mandated Guidelines -- 13. A Federally Funded Education Program Can Deny Admittance to a Disabled Individual Based on an In -- 14. The Americans with Disabilities Act Will Advance Civil Rights for Disabled Americans -- 15. A Young Adult Examines the Impact of Personal Assistance Services on Her Life -- 16. A Man Disabled as a Child Reflects on the Importance of the Americans with Disabilities Act on H -- Organizations to Contact -- For Further Reading -- Index

There is nothing more intriguing than well-reported documented stories of real life experiences and genuine autoethnographic dialogue. When writers communicate and relate stories about the self and their experiences and include others who share a personal story, there is an amazing connection, unique intensive and extensive understanding and interpretation, and a cultural and social exchange in an authoethnographic representation of self and the respective culture of study. A dialogue generated among the authors as educators as they shared stories inside and outside the disabilities culture was the performance and autoethnographic delivery in Phil Smith's book, Both Sides of the Table: Autoethnographics of Educators Learning and Teaching Within/in [Dis]ability. For Smith's purpose, both sides of the table represent both parties negotiating an academic Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for individuals with disabilities. The transitions from self to group and the ability to move freely inside and outside the culture as a member of the culture, presents a "wider lens" as one often hears in the autoethnographic and ethnographic language needed to gain a more complete picture of what it is you want to know and learn, and what is permissible to reveal. An autographic lens is widely accepted for this dialogue (Chang, Ngunijiri, & Hernandez, 2013; Creswell, 2013; Ellis, Adams, & Bochner, 2011). Pragmatically, autoethnography was a method realistically supported by the voice of these educators with a unique understanding of their own disabilities world and a story to tell.

Politicians with disabilities have been holding office since the founding of the United States. Yet while there is underrepresentation of people with disabilities holding office in the US, those who are disabled and holding office often do not highlight their disabilities, except when working to gain the equal legislative rights and opportunities that able-bodied people have.

What is voice? What is speech? What is language? -- Speech and language developmental milestones -- Communication variations -- What is communication disorder? -- Hearing disorder -- Deaf and hard of hearing -- Language disorder -- Apraxia of speech -- Speech disorder -- Autism spectrum disorder -- Statistics about people with voice, speech, and language disorders -- Communication disorders in children -- How does a communication disability affect a person's life? -- The impact of a communication disorder on family and interpersonal relationships -- Cultural attitudes toward communication disabilities and stigma -- Media portrayal of communication disabilities -- Should you disclose your communication disability to your employer? -- Employment options for people with a communication disorder -- Recovery models -- Speech-language pathologists -- Peer support and recovery -- Guiding principles of recovery -- Healthy lifestyle to support recovery -- Supported employment for people with a communication disorder -- Rehabilitation medicine -- Health and well-being -- Caregiving : tips for caring for a person with a communication disorder -- Technology and the future of treatment for a communication disorder -- Americans with disabilities act -- Rights of students with a disability -- Accommodations for employees with a disability -- Impact in the workplace -- Legal requirements to qualify for social security disability benefits -- Disability rights movement -- Neurodiversity movement -- Organizations that provide services for people with communication disorders.

The Lebanese parliamentary election was a very decisive moment in the country's history. As a result of this election, a new parliamentary majority and discourse dominated the political scene. The election was also peculiar concerning the disability cause in Lebanon. For the first time in the history of Lebanon's elections, disability became an issue. In fact, the Lebanese disability movement succeeded in launching two different but complementary campaigns during the election. The first one was engineered by both the Lebanese Physical Handicapped Union and the Youth Blind Association. Under the title "Haqqi" or "My Right," the campaign focused on the right of people with disability to practice one of their most important rights: the political right to vote.

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