Today is a pretty good day to die.Those were Marjorie Aunos's thoughts as her car hit black ice and spun out of control toward an oncoming truck. As she waited for paramedics to extricate her from the mangled wreck, unable to feel anything below her neck, she pictured her sixteen-month-old son. And decided to live.So began the most challenging chapter in the life of this overachieving psychologist and single parent, whose life's work had been to ad...

Aujourd'hui est un beau jour pour mourir.C'est ce que s'est dit Marjorie Aunos lorsque sa voiture a dérapé sur une plaque de verglas. En attendant qu'on la sorte de l'épave de sa voiture, alors qu'elle ne sentait plus son corps au-dessous de ses épaules, elle s'est représentée son fils de dix-huit mois. Et elle a choisi de vivre.C'est ainsi qu'a commencé le plus difficile chapitre de la vie de cette psychologue chevronnée. Désormais parent en situation de h...

A book such as this both demonstrates the progress that has been made over recent years, and will also serve to enhance respect for the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities in the years to come.'- From the Foreword by Orville EndicottThis wide-ranging volume provides a multidisciplinary examination of human rights and the lives of people with intellectual disabilities.The book combines historical, psychological, philosophical, social, educational, ...