Includes bibliographical references and index.

Multilingual, multicultural, multitalented: the history of a diverse people / Roberta Thoryk, Angela Battistone-Potosky, and Fred Palchik -- Reaching across the divide: visual disability and American childhood / Carol Linsenmeier and Jeff Moyer -- The progressive movement and the child with physical disabilities / Brad Byrom -- A matter of difference: a contextual perspective on the history of children with mental retardation in the United States / Elizabeth L. Brennan -- Children being different, difficult, or disturbed in America / Philip L. Safford and Elizabeth J. Safford -- Resource documents -- Deafness and childhood -- Visual disability and childhood -- Other physical disability and childhood -- Cognitive disability and childhood -- Troubled, troubling, and troublesome children -- Bibliography and resources for inquiry -- A sampling of self-narratives by persons with disabilities -- A sampling of narratives about persons with disabilities -- A sampling of literary sources concerning persons with disabilities -- Narratives about nondisabled Americans important in the history of persons with disabilities -- Sources of historical information about children with disabilities in America -- A sampling of references on the history of childhood -- Resources on the World Wide Web -- Disability studies: historical resources -- Children's literature and disability -- Other resources for and about persons with disabilities.