No Easywalk: African-American Educators Coping With Their Own Children With Special Needs

In parenting a child with a disability, you face a major choice. You can believe that your child's condition is a deathblow to everything you've dreamed and worked toward until now, or you can decide that you will continue to lead this life you'd planned—and incorporate your child into it. Parents who choose the latter course find they do a tremendous amount of growing. They find inner strength they didn't know they had. (Simons, 1987, foreword)