Looks at issues disabled persons and their families face through a developmental lens rather than through the narrower lens of individual disorders, identifying challenges faced and posed by disabled persons during each phase of the life cycle as well as core challenges common to all phases for everyone involved. Diagnoses a core social failure in addition to the core social insult of stigmatization: failure to provide compensatory opportunities for the flexing of developmental muscles in keeping with the disability's constraints. Includes comments from 125 families representing a range of neuro-psychiatric and physiological disabilities. The editor is a professor in the rehabilitation program at Indian University of Pennsylvania. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less