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Essays wanted

Guidelines For A Different Journey: Personal stories for parents by

adults with disabilities is a new book that Stan Klein and 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:

stan@...

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, 2003.

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 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 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.

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, 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, 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.

is widely respected for his many achievements, both in the

corporate and non-profit world. As a person born without arms and legs,

inspires others to achieve through knowledge, experience, vision,

personality, and persistence. As a National Easter Seal Child,

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, was appointed by

former President Clinton to the National Council on Disability where he

served for 7 years.

Today, 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, is a frequently requested keynote speaker,

delivering 20-30 major addresses annually before conferences,

conventions, and annual meetings of organizations serving people with

disabilities.

'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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