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Reviews Hearing Impaired Developmentally Disabled Persons : A Challenge to the Helping Professions, Larry B. Stewart, Ed.D., 255 pp., Final Report, Model Demonstration Program, HEW Grant No. 4-P-71144/9, September 1979. This is a comprehensive report concerning the development, activities, achievements, and assessment of the Model Demonstration Program for Hearing Impaired DevelopmentaUy Disabled Persons (H.I.D.D.), a 3-year federally funded project. Centered in Arizona, the project was to demonstrate the need of the hearing impaired with combined developmental disabUities , with the major focus being the deaf/ mentally retarded. The author takes us through the entire sequence of the program, from the start-up stage (and the pitfalls associated with such due to politics and the unique needs of this population) through assessment activities, provision of various services to the client population , development of materials and models, short- and long-term training of professionals, and a final assessment of the project and recommendations for the future. This reference is one of the most comprehensive ones in existence that delineate the characteristics and needs of this vastly underserved population. The communication needs of the H.I.D.D. permeate all aspects of needed services and training. Numerous guides and curriculum materials were produced and disseminated . The project was highly successful in meeting its objectives. Such federally supported projects unfortunately are rarely continued under state or private support once funding terminates . Accordingly, the major recommendations include establishment by each state of a comprehensive diagnostic and service center for the H.I.D.D., establishment of permanent regional centers by federal legislation, and the permanent establishment of a laboratory center to advance the state of the art. This report is recommended reading for all individuals involved in working with the H.I.D.D. William T. Darnell Certified School Psychologist Model Secondary School for the Deaf Washington, D.C. 20002 Images of Ourselves: Women with Disabilities Talking , edited by Jo Campling, 140 pp., $9.75, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 9 Park Street, Boston, MA 02108, 1981. This book is a collection of 25 essays written by disabled women in England. The editor is a woman who has written on disabüity but feels strongly the limits of her role as an able-bodied person presenting the views of persons with disabilities. The contributors range in age from adolescence to senior citizenship and come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Some are feminists ; others have no connection with the women 's movement. None are professional writers, and individual styles of expression have been preserved. Recurrent themes include personal relationships , sexuality, motherhood, education, and employment as weU as day-to-day concerns such as money, transportation, and clothing. What emerges is a composite picture of attitudes toward handicapped females, the status these women are given in society, and, by implication, the problems able-bodied persons face in their dealings with disabled women and all women face in their dealings with other human beings. One after another, the disabled contributors insist that despite their differences from other women, they are not different. Most have devoted a great deal of energy to estabUshing satisfactory roles and nonroles with respect to the "normal" world. Some have withdrawn from the mainstream; others have fought to be a part of it. They wish and demand to be accepted as persons, as women, as themselves. These women do not speak with unified voices, but there is something universal about what they say-universal for disabled women and perhaps universal for all women as well. As a disabled woman, I found in the book many thoughts I have had frequently and some that are new to me. There are harsh statements and hopeful ones, triumphs and defeats. As I continued to read, I found myself searching more and more eagerly for confirmation of my own views, answers to problems I have not solved, and ideas that could lead me to become something I am not. The book's message is power: the power of the individual, regardless of the barriers one confronts; the power of women to be liberated, whether they are feminists or not. Judith C. Gilliom, M.A. National Spinal Cord Injury Association 901 Areola Avenue Wheaton...

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