Dear Colleagues,
Please circulate as much as possible. We appreciate your kind
assistance.
thanks
stan klein, john kemp
Essays wanted
Guidelines For A Different Journey: Personal stories for parents by
adults with disabilities is a new book that Stan Klein and John Kemp are
co-editing. For this book, adults who have grown up with disabilities
and/or health care needs are invited to write short essays for parents
of children with disabilities and/or health care needs. In their
essays, authors are asked to write an essay that they wish their own
parents had read or been told while they were growing up.
Here are specific guidelines for essays:
1. Please write an essay of about 1500 words, or less. Add a biography
of about 150 words, or less, that would follow the essay in the book.
At the end of the essay, please write your mailing address, telephone
number, fax number, and Email.
2. Please submit your essay as an attachment in Microsoft Word to an
Email or paste your essay into the body of your Email. Send Email to:
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3. If you submit your essay by regular mail, please double space the
text. If at all possible, please also submit the essay on a disk as
well. Please label each page of your printed essay and the disk with
your name and address. Please send the printed copy and disc to:
Stanley D. Klein, Ph.D., DisABILITIESBOOKS, Inc., P.O. Box 470715,
Brookline, MA 02447-0715.
4. Deadline: all essays are to be received by February 15, 2002.
Authors of essays accepted for inclusion in the book will receive $125
for the right to include their essay.
For your information, biographies of Stan Klein and John Kemp follow:
Stanley D. Klein, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and educator, is
Education Director, Abilities Expo; Series Editor, People with
Disabilities Press, iUniverse.com; President, DisABILITIESBOOKS, Inc.
(an internet bookstore); and Research Associate in Medicine (General
Pediatrics), Children's Hospital, Boston.
He is co-editor of You Will Dream New Dreams. Inspiring personal
stories by parents of children with disabilities (Kensington Books,
2001), a widely acclaimed book consisting of essays by "veteran parents"
for new parents of children with disabilities. Over 10,000 copies of
the book have been sold. For information about this book, please go to:
http://www.youwilldreamnewdreams.com/
In recent years, Stan helped Merrill Lynch establish its Families of
Children with Disabilities Program and served as "Special Needs Expert"
at Parents.com (Parents magazine Web site). Stan co-founded Exceptional
Parent magazine in 1971 and served as editor-in-chief of the magazine
for parents of children with disabilities until 1997.
In 1996, he retired, after 19 years, as Professor of Psychology and
Director of the Counseling Service at the New England College of
Optometry.
A frequent speaker to audiences of parents of children with
disabilities, Stan also lectures to health care and education
professionals about communicating with parents of children with
disabilities, particularly the challenge of delivering difficult
diagnostic news. He has lectured on this topic at teaching hospitals
and many other clinical and educational settings throughout the United
States as well as in Greece, United Kingdom, Israel, and Germany.
He began working with children with disabilities in 1954 as a camp
counselor while he was a college student. Stan received his Ph.D. in
psychology from Clark University in 1963; he was a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of Lehigh University in 1957.
Stan is the author of Psychological Testing of Children: A Consumer's
Guide and the co-editor of two books: The Disabled Child and the
Family: An Exceptional Parent Reader and It Isn't Fair: Siblings of
Children with Disabilities.
Stan has received numerous national awards for his work from
organizations such as the American Psychological Association, The
President's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities and
the American Association of Disability Communicators, The National Down
Syndrome Congress, National Parents Network on Disabilities, American
Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, Bethesda Lutheran
Homes and Services and the National Easter Seals Society.
He has appeared on many radio and television programs discussing
children with disabilities and their families and once served as the
on-air child development expert for WEEI, Boston. He is the parent of
two children.
John D. Kemp is a principal in the Washington, DC law firm of Powers,
Pyles, Sutter & Verville, P.C., a firm specializing in health care,
rehabilitation, disability, higher education and tax-exempt
organizations. As an attorney, John represents an array of national
associations, corporations, and groups in navigating Capitol Hill and
the federal agencies to produce greater opportunities for people with
disabilities and their families as well as achieving intended goals for
his clients.
He currently serves as President and CEO of HalfthePlanet Foundation.
Before the for-profit Internet web site was merged into the Foundation,
Kemp served as Chief Community Officer for HalfthePlanet.com in New York
City.
Prior to joining HalfthePlanet, John served as President and CEO of VSA
Arts and as Executive Director of United Cerebral Palsy Associations-one
of only a few persons with a disability to head a major nonprofit
disability organization.
John is widely respected for his many achievements, both in the
corporate and non-profit world. As a person born without arms and legs,
John inspires others to achieve through knowledge, experience, vision,
personality, and persistence. As a National Easter Seal Child, John
traveled coast-to-coast and abroad meeting leaders and expressing hope
for all children.
Having accrued a wealth of knowledge on civil rights, employment and
education laws and policies as they relate to people with disabilities
and organizations and governments who serve them, John was appointed by
former President Clinton to the National Council on Disability where he
served for 7 years.
Today, John serves on a number of nonprofit boards including the
American Association of People with Disabilities, which he co-founded in
1995 and is presently its Chairman; The Abilities Fund that promotes
entrepreneurship for people with disabilities (presently Chairman); and
the National Rehabilitation Hospital (presently Secretary). He has
served on the Boards of Directors of: Commission on Accreditation of
Rehabilitation Facilities (Chairman); Independent Sector (Vice
Chairman); the American Occupational Therapy Association; and an
independent living center, Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
(Chairman).
A lawyer, disability rights leader, and recognized expert on disability
issues and services, John is a frequently requested keynote speaker,
delivering 20-30 major addresses annually before conferences,
conventions, and annual meetings of organizations serving people with
disabilities.
John's speeches are powerfully tailored to be practical and
inspirational. He encourages others to streamline, energize and/or turn
around their organizations, implementing business best practices and
innovative people strategies. He motivates leaders to create a culture
where diversity is positive to the bottom line and can help to define
their mission. As an advocate, he inspires organizations to be fearless
and passionate about their work.
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