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Description: Journals of Mary Swift Lamson's voyage through the South to New Orleans, a steamboat journey on the Mississippi River, and a visit to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky kept from 8 March-May 1855. Also, a journal describing her visit to the Great Lakes region, 26 July-27 August 1868. Lamson describes her travels by steamer through the Great Lakes with stops in various Michigan ports and Chicago. Lamson also notes visits to copper and iron ore mines in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
In their chronological portrait, the authors synthesize the many voices of exceptional children, providing a historical picture that includes not only the perspective of the professional, but also, to the extent possible, that of the "client." The book begins by placing the origins of special education in historical context from Aristotle through the Enlightenment and beyond. Subsequent chapters consider individual "conditions" traditionally associated with specialized approaches (e.g., blindness, deafness, and retardation), discuss conditions that have given rise to further differentiation of childhood exceptionality, and offer a synthesis of themes and a prospective for a "new history," now emerging, of children considered exceptional.