The article identifies 14 rights parents of disabled children must allow themselves which include the right to mourn, the right to feel one is doing the best one can, the right to organize one's life for one's own satisfaction, and the right to a sense of humor. (DB)

Reviewing her roles as student, wife, mother, and psychiatric social worker, the author examines issues of concern to many women who try to combine family with career. She describes the challenges and rewards of being a teacher and the dilemmas faced by professional women who are also wives and mothers. (Author/SK)

The mother of a 16-year-old daughter with autism offers a parental perspective on coping with a child's disability. The paper emphasizes that through direct interaction with the child and the child's teacher and through taking an active role in the child's activities and achievements, the child's potential can be discovered and the child can be…

Parents are encouraged to take a child-centered approach to maximizing individual potential, which includes modeling the basic skills including how to learn, live, love, and communicate. Educators can help fully develop students' learning potential by matching their learning pace and the information content provided to their level of functioning.…

Noting that healthy adult-youth relationships are more critical today than in the past because of the complexity of the times and the diminished availability of parents and family networks of support, this paper focuses on those dimensions of the adult-youth relationship that foster healthy development and academic success in all youth, including…

This paper discusses the origin and philosophy of the whole language movement, focusing on the learning theory, language attitudes, language acquisition, and reading processes employed by the approach. The roles of teachers, learners, parents, and student evaluation in the whole language approach are then examined. The paper then addresses how…