| Why
Weed Disabilities?
Students
with special needs are in all our classrooms and media centers
today.  Library
media collections should provide updated titles that promote
understanding and acceptance of these students.
Suggested
Dewey Numbers to Check:
Go
to the 616s for titles on diseases of the nervous system
and mental disorders, including speech and language disorders
and impulse control issues. Also check the 155s for the
psychology of children and young adults. Look in the 362s
for any titles on social services available for those with
disabilities. The 371s will have any titles directly dealing
with disabilities and education (like mainstreaming). The
AV and professional collection must also be reviewed.
Specific
Criteria for Weeding:
The
diagnosis and identification of disabilities and disorders
have evolved over recent years. For example, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is increasingly diagnosed.
Asperger’s syndrome, a condition related to autism,
is now an identified condition. Older titles do not have
this information, new ones should. Use these keywords to
quickly check the currency of existing titles.
 Since
the passage in 1990 of the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, any
title addressing social services for people with disabilities
is outdated if it was published prior to 1990. Discard and
replace them or turn to the web for current information.
More
titles on disabilities are being marketed today to help
students with acceptance and tolerance. Some of these titles
are showing up in the fiction market also. Check your older
titles (especially AV) to make sure the message and sensitivity
are right for today’s students.
Consider
Weeding Titles Like These:
- Access
: the guide to a better life for disabled Americans, 1978.
LCCN 77090308
- Aids
for the severely handicapped, 1974. LCCN 74-25189
- American
sign language : a teacher’s resource text on curriculum,
methods, and evaluation, 1980. LCCN 80053459
- Art
projects for the mentally retarded child, 1976. LCCN 75034338
- Auditory
disorders in children, 1970.
- Autism
: diagnosis, current research, and management, 1976. LCCN
76001931
- Basic
lessons for retarded children, 1965. LCCN 65-010788
- Beauty
for the sighted and the blind, 1959. LCCN 59015223
- Blind
children in family and community, 1960. LCCN 60011834
- Blindness
: what it is, what it does, and how to live with it, 1961.
LCCN 61012808
- Career
planning for the blind; a manual for students and teachers,
1966. LCCN 66020166
- Caring
for your disabled child, 1965. LCCN 64011936
- A
catalog of instructional objectives for trainable mentally
retarded students, 1974.
- Cerebral
palsy : more hope than ever, 1967. LCCN 67005117
- Cerebral
palsy; advances in understanding and care, 1956. LCCN 55012008
- The
child with spina bifida, 1980.
- Communication
skills for the primary class of educable mentally retarded;
a curriculum guide, 1965. LCCN 67064436
- The
communicatively disordered child : management procedures
for the classroom, 1977. LCCN 77009908
- Consumer’s
guide to mental health services, 1980.
- Coping
with sight loss; the vision resource book, 1980.
- Counseling
with deaf people, 1971.
- Crafts
for retarded; through their hands they shall learn, 1964.
LCCN 64-022301
- Curriculum
for multiply disabled hearing impaired students, 1982.
- The
deaf child in the public schools; a handbook for parents
of deaf children, 1974. LCCN 73092182
- Deaf
children at home and school, 1967. LCCN 67097709
- Disabled
workers in the labor market, 1964. LCCN 63018086
- Down’s
syndrome (mongolism): research, prevention, and management,
1975. LCCN 73093839
- Education
and care of moderately and severely retarded children, with
a curriculum and activities guide, 1971. LCCN 71170090
- The
education of hearing-handicapped children, 1966. LCCN 67071053
- Employment
for the handicapped; a guide for the disabled, their families,
and their counselors, 1967. LCCN 67-011009
- The
epilepsy fact book, 1977. LCCN 77024279
- Every
kid is special [filmstrip], 1977.
- Forgotten
children; a program for the multihandicapped, 1969. LCCN
68059136
- A
handbook for the blind, 1952. LCCN 52001920
- A
handbook of emotional illness and treatment: a contemporary
guide with case histories, 1962. LCCN 61013014
- Handbook
of mental retardation syndromes, 1975. LCCN 73020240
- The
hearing impaired child in a regular classroom : preschool,
elementary, and secondary years; a guide for the classroom
teacher and administrator, 1973. LCCN 73086074
- How
to teach and administer classes for mentally retarded children,
1968. LCCN 67031419
- Legal
aspects of educating the developmentally disabled, 1975.
LCCN 76363551
- The
link between learning disabilities and juvenile delinquency
: current theory and knowledge, 1976. LCCN 77601770
- Mainstreaming
children with learning disabilities, 1976. LCCN 76050641
- Mainstreaming
: with special emphasis on the educable mentally retarded,
1977. LCCN 78110126
- Meet
Scott : he’s a special person, 1978.
- The
mentally retarded child : development, education, and treatment,
1965. LCCN 65018950
- The
mentally retarded child in the classroom, 1965. LCCN 64007609
- Methods
and aids for teaching the mentally retarded, 1970 LCCN 79127102
- More
time to grow : explaining mental retardation to children
: a story, 1977. LCCN 76048513
-
Physical disability -- a psychological approach, 1960. LCCN
60005732
- Physical
education and recreation for cerebral palsied individuals,
1976.
- The
preparation of teachers of brain-injured children, 1968.
- Psychopathology
and education of the brain-injured child, 1947. LCCN 48000889
- Recreation
for retarded teenagers and young adults, 1968. LCCN 68011469
- The
right-to-education child; a curriculum for the severely
and profoundly mentally retarded, 1973. LCCN 73008661
- Selective
audio-visual instruction for mentally retarded pupils, 1964.
- Stress
and distress : a psychiatrist’s guide to modern living,
1971. LCCN 72107112
- The
teacher of the mentally retarded, 1965. LCCN 65010918
- Teaching
individuals with physical and multiple disabilities, 1976.
LCCN 76053231
- When
children need help : an up-to-date handbook of guidance
for parents of children who have been diagnosed as brain-injured,
mentally retarded, cerebral palsied, learning disabled,
or as a slow learner, 1972. LCCN 72078271
- When
mental illness strikes your family, 1951. LCCN 51005356
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