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Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child

Michael Berube

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UPC:
9780679758662
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1998-03-31
Release Date:
1998-03-31
Author:
Michael Berube
Language:
english
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When Jamie Brub was born with Down syndrome in 1991, he was immediately subject to themedical procedures, insurance guidelines, policies, and representations that surround every child our societydesignates as disabled.In this wrenching yet ultimately inspiring book, Jamie's father, literary scholar MichaelBrub, describes not only the challenges of raising his son but the challenge of seeing him as a personrather than as a medical, genetic, or social problem.