Uncut Cords: Caring for Our Sons and Daughters with Learning Disabilities - Softcover

Rogers, Pauline; Fletcher, Linda; Nicholson, Pat; McLaren, Anne; Paterson, Susan; Payne, Gillian; Maynard, Liz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993285708 ISBN 13: 9780993285707

Publisher: Caring Expressions, 2015

Synopsis

People often say they wish they knew better how to relate to and understand those with a learning disability. After reading this book, they will. Uncut Cords offers readers the insightful perspective of walking in the writers' shoes. It is a positive, realistic and hopeful book which will prove helpful and supportive to others negotiating a route through the minefield of caring for sons and daughters with learning disabilities, as well as those with professional caring responsibilities. Uncut Cords is written by seven mothers of people with learning, behavioral and physical disabilities whose ages range from 16 - 50, and provides readers with an insight into the lives of families living with children and adults who will be forever dependent on them. The book's chapters are based around various topics, such as Beginnings, A Day in the Life, Special Occasions, Rites of Passage, Hopes and Fears for the Future, with brief contributions from each of the authors. Their stories give an insight into the people they were and the significant changes they have undergone during the process of caring for their learning disabled child; in particular, they reveal how they have struggled, in a variety of ways, to hold to their own identities and be enlarged rather than diminished by their caring responsibilities. The writing is candid, personal and passionate about their journeys, and the lives of these special sons and daughters. As one of the mothers says, "Realising that other people have experienced similar situations and attitudes to mine and share the same concerns has been like finding an island in a seemingly endless rough sea."

Edition details

• Publisher: Caring Expressions
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0993285708
• ISBN 13: 9780993285707
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242