“With Groups’ Help, the Disabled Carve Out a Place at the Altar”
Read an April 3, 2005, Washington Post article about a variety of efforts and programs to include people with disabilities in congregational life.
Read an April 3, 2005, Washington Post article about a variety of efforts and programs to include people with disabilities in congregational life.
Listen to an Aug. 2, 2007, Speaking of Faith program about the L’Arche community for the developmentally disabled.
Sarup R. Mathur is an associate professor at Arizona State University in Tempe and associate director of the National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice.
Peter Leone is a professor of special education at the University of Maryland and the project director of the National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice.
Adrienne Asch is director of the Center for Ethics and Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics at Yeshiva University in New York City. Her writings include “Assisted Reproduction,” in From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic (2008).
Brett Webb-Mitchell, a Presbyterian minister, is founder and director of the School of the Pilgrim in Carrboro, North Carolina, which encourages people to experience pilgrimages and other Christian practices. A former president of the religion division of the American Association on Mental Retardation, Webb-Mitchell is the author of God Plays Piano Too: The Spiritual Lives of […]
Sam Goldstein is a neuropsychologist on the faculty of the University of Utah and in private practice at the Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City. He is the co-author of Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope and Optimism in Your Child and the forthcoming Raising a Self-Disciplined Child: Help Your Child Become More Responsible, Confident and Resilient. […]
The Alzheimer’s Association has more than 80 local chapters, which can direct you to any of more than 4,000 support groups for families and patients dealing with Alzheimer’s or to local faith-related resources.
Read a Sept. 19, 2011, CNN blog post about televangelist Pat Robertson’s controversial comments advising a husband to divorce his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.