"Dancing In A Disabled World" Book Event with Author Maureen McCue

Join author Maureen McCue to discuss her new book, Dancing In A Disabled World. The book will be available for purchase from Beaverdale Books at the event.

About the book: A candid, behind the curtains consideration of disability and being human. Often invisible or overlooked, a substantial and essential part of the human family anywhere carries some disability label. Dr. Maureen McCue questions the roles, rules, causes, and consequences of disability. Focus on the special talents and lifelong trials of a dependent adult son with autism mirrors and highlights the uneven abilities and disabilities of caring professionals, families, friends, and strangers. A closer look at Being Human Differently.

“I appreciated McCue’s attention to the lived realities of a child who later becomes the adult with developmental and cognitive disabilities.”—Kris Nagel, Psychologist, Retired

Maureen McCue’s stunningly candid and immersive memoir raises and addresses crucial questions for the individual and for social policy of how to best support and care for all described here. As we all have special needs.”—Mary Simmons, Editor, Story Sleuth, and Aggregator

Maureen McCue is enjoying retirement—even though work never ends. All health and well-being remain dependent on the health of shared natural, social, and political environments. She continues to seek ways to support Michael and to be certain his life is defined by dignity, reward, and friendship. And, committed to the fight for a livable future, She strives to respect and support the native lifeforms sharing the wetland, wood, and prairie remnants on the 14 acres she has called home for over 35 years. Her first book is

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