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A world without Martha : a memoir of sisters, disability, and difference
\"Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded institution. Martha was not yet two, but in 1960s Ontario there was little community acceptance or support for raising children with intellectual disabilities at home. In this frank and moving memoir, Victoria describes growing up in a world that excluded and dehumanized her sister, and how society's insistence that only a \"normal\" life was worth living affected her sister, her family, and herself, until changing attitudes to disability and difference offered both sisters new possibilities for healing and self-discovery.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mothers' and fathers' self-report of involvement with autistic, mentally delayed, and normal children
Ninety-six mothers and fathers reported involvement with their autistic, mentally delayed, and normal children for two days when both parents were home. Parents in this province-wide Ontario sample were asked to record the length and to rate the quality of interactions. Parents of normal and mentally delayed children reported greater involvement than parents of children with autism, Across groups, mothers reported longer involvement than fathers, with mothers of autistic children reporting less contact than mothers of the mentally delayed. Fathers of autistic children were also less involved than fathers of mentally delayed children. Best predictors of low involvement for fathers was having an autistic and a first-born or only child. For mothers, a large family size, having an autistic child, and an older child predicted lower involvement. Parents of normal children were the most likely to report contacts with their child as being fun.
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