Creating Our Own Lives – College Students with Intellectual Disability Gill

Creating Our Own LivesCollege Students with Intellectual Disability\nAuthor(s): Michael Gill, Beth Myers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517909710, 978-1517909710\nSynopsis\nYoung adults with intellectual disability tell the story of their own experience of higher education\n\n How do students with intellectual disability experience higher education? Creating Our Own Lives addresses this question through the eyes of participants themselves. In relating their experiences and aspirations, these student perspectives mount a powerful challenge to assumptions that intellectual disability is best met with protection or segregation. \n\n Taken together, the essays expose and contradict the inherently ableist claim that individuals with intellectual disability cannot be reliable storytellers. Instead, their deeply informative stories serve as a corrective narrative. The first of the four sections.