Life as Jamie Knows It : An Exceptional Child Grows Up (Hardcover)

from oolalu

Life a Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up, by Michael Berube, was an interesting and quick read for me. I am a speech/language pathologist and I found this book to an accurate account of a Down syndrome young adult. As professional who worked with middle and high school special needs s...

from JSBancroft

Life as Jamie Knows It, by Michael Bérubé, is in many ways a typical memoir of a parent's fears, frustrations, and joys. The difference is that Bérubé's son has Down syndrome. Bérubé successfully avoids the maudlin, and succeeds in introducing the reader to a young man deserving of our respect, b...

from SherylHendrix

Wow! This exceptional memoir and philosophical treatise on Downs Syndrome and disability proved to be everything I'd expected from the book, and then some. I chose this as one of the books I would be willing to critique for LibraryThing's Early Reviewers because I am shortly looking forward to th...

from TShep

Life as Jamie Knows It is a great read. Narrating various episodes of his family story, the author Michael Berube, weaves together real life situations with thought provoking philosophical questions in a way that teaches without the reader realizing it. This book is not written chronologically, b...

from vasquirrel

Reading Michael Berube's second book, I found that his writing style was accessible and conversational, while also dispensing quite a bit of information about disability studies - in a way that a non-academic could easily understand. I especially appreciated this, as I started the book having not...