¿Qué hago con un niño con discapacidad? Aliéntalo

Overview

Emerging from years of research, this book offers information about what children with disabilities can do when they grow up. Many cases of real people who have stood out in various important fields—people such as Homer, Beethoven, Toulousse-Lautrec, Jorge Luis Borges, Gaby Brimmer, Juan García Ponce, Frida Kahlo, and Stephen Hawking—overcoming a disability or impairment, whether congenital or acquired, are presented and analyzed here. This book deals with the connection of disabilities and artistic tendencies, including music and painting, and one section details instances of young children who introduce immense life lessons to their communities and society as a whole. Also included are an appendix and a dictionary of frequently used terms.

Author Biography

Cecilia Rosales Vega is a psychologist and the coordinator of the Psychological Services Center at the University of the Americas in Mexico City. She has professional experience working with people with disabilities, as well as personal experience with her daughter who has Down syndrome.