Comments on: Where Are the Elders with Autism? Reflections Upon Reading Fred Pelka’s What We Have Done

By: Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg

Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 02:56:02 +0000

Perhaps. The public school that I went to in the 60s also had a separate ed classroom, but it was just for people with intellectual disabilities. I never saw anyone who was a wheelchair user, blind, deaf, or otherwise disabled in my school.

By: Cathy Y.

Cathy Y. — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:24:18 +0000

The public elementary school I attended in Boca Raton, Florida from 1971-1975 had a “special education” building for children with special needs such as Down Syndrome, etc. (I’m not sure about autism, but I would imagine so as well.) I think that all of the special needs children in that city attended that school, and they came on a separate school bus. Was that city “ahead of its time” in providing that service?

By: Em

Em — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:07:41 +0000

Walk into any L’Arche home around the world. You will find the adults who survived the institutions and many of them are very much like the children with classical autism that we see today. Their stories are tragic, truly awful. It’s amazing that anyone survived.

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:05:24 +0000

[...] misconceptions and the general lack of knowledge about its history. For example, in her essay Where Are the Elders with Autism? Reflections Upon Reading Fred Pelka’s What We Have Done, she discusses the institutionalization of disabled people, an issue that has affected her family [...]