Among the topics she covers are: current and historical debates on the quality of disabled peoples lives; the way disability is represented within Western culture; institutionalization and independence; feminist research and community care; and the politics of the disability movement. She asserts that, for too long, non-disabled people have not only defined the experience of disability but have had control over disabled peoples lives. This important book has grown out of an emerging organization of disabled people who are part of a powerful new culture. Jenny Morris is the author of Encounters with Strangers: Feminism and Disability, Able Lives: Womens Experience of Paralysis, and Alone Together: Voices of Single Mothers.

    The second edition offers a complete spectrum of information and advice about cerebral palsy and its effect on development and education during a child's first six years. Parents' statements at the end of each chapter provide the reader with insight and perspective on how other families cope.

    Winner of a 1992 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction.