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Life as Jamie knows it : an exceptional child grows up
- Title
- Life as Jamie knows it : an exceptional child grows up / Michael Berube.
- Author
- Bérubé, Michael, 1961-
- Publication
- Boston : Beacon Press, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-11725 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
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- Summary
- "The story of Jamie Berube's journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American life Published in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Berube to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. At four, he is like many young people his age, but his Down syndrome leads most people to see him only in terms of his disability. Twenty years later, Jamie is no longer little, though he still loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. In Life as Jamie Knows It, Michael Berube chronicles his son's growth and his growing love of the world, writing as both a disability studies scholar and as a father. He follows Jamie through the transitions within his family and home life, through his school years, through the complicated process of entering the workforce with a disability. In a book that joins stirring memoir and sharp philosophical inquiry, Berube guides us through the labyrinth of ethical issues surrounding how we approach disability and uses Jamie's story to argue for a deeper understanding of disability that challenges us to move toward a more just, more inclusive society"--
- Subject
- Bérubé, Michael, 1961-
- Bérubé, Jamie
- Parents of children with disabilities > United States > Biography
- Children with mental disabilities > United States > Biography
- People with mental disabilities > United States > Biography
- Down syndrome > United States > Case studies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-11725
- ISBN
- 9780807019313
- 0807019313
- LCCN
- 2016007675
- OCLC
- 2016007675
- Author
- Bérubé, Michael, 1961- author.
- Title
- Life as Jamie knows it : an exceptional child grows up / Michael Berube.
- Publisher
- Boston : Beacon Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Bérubé, Michael, 1961- author. Life as Jamie knows it Boston : Beacon Press, 2016 9780807019320 (DLC) 2016029597
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-11725