Bücher von Chris Mercogliano

In My Brother's Words is the intimate and poignant autobiography of a profoundly disabledwoman who struggled to grow up in the 1950s. Because Susan could neither speak nor write,her Irish twin tells her story for her in her voice, every bit as she would have told it herself.Susan's was a life filled with triumphs and tragedies and everything in between. She wrestledwith and overcame her unique blend of physical and emotional childhood obstacles. She wasgainfully employed for 40 years. And she lived to become a celebrated elder in amultigenerational family who misses her dearly today.Susan's story is also the complicated story of disability in America and the efforts of advocatesfor the disabled to push back against our inability and sometimes unwillingness as a society toadequately address the needs of its most vulnerable members. That struggle is ongoing.

ducator Chris Mercogliano has been working with hyperactive (ADHD) children for many years at the Free School in Albany, New York, and has developed numerous ways to help these students relax, focus, modulate emotional expression, make responsible choices, and forge lasting friendships-all prerequisites for learning. In Teaching the Restless, Mercogliano uses the stories of six boys and three girls to share valuable lessons, offering a way to work with these children without assigning them labels or resorting to the use of stimulant drugs like Ritalin.