An insightful guide to how children's friendships unfold when one child is developmentally disabled. Includes case studies from research conducted by the author, and help for parents hoping to understand and encourage these potentially life-enriching relationships. A 1999 Parents' Choice® Approval. (Parents' Choice®)
Book Description
Delicate Threads is the culmination of the author's years of careful observations of friendships between seven pairs of children-each including a child with a moderate to severe disability-who are classmates in an inclusive elementary school. The sometimes intimate interactions described here give readers a rare view of the nature of these friendships, how they develop, their impact on the children involved, how the families and teachers perceive them and contribute to their success or failure, as well as the benefits of inclusion.
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