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Best Practices in Occupational Therapy Education
edited by Patricia A. Crist and Marjorie E. Scaffa
Haworth Press, 2004. Softcover, 217 pages, $24.95
Are you an occupational therapy professor or fieldwork coordinator looking for innovative educational and training techniques? If so, check out Best Practices in Occupational Therapy Education. In this resource designed to enhance clinical reasoning and student performance in the classroom and practice setting, two occupational therapy academics offer methods to integrate program knowledge and clinical skills and put them to use in a contemporary and changing professional arena. Published simultaneously as Occupational Therapy in Health Care (v. 18, nos. 1/2), this softcover version would prove useful to individuals wanting a ready reference and to library collections that do not include the journal holdings.
-Reviewed by Sally Rosenthal

Women with Disabilities Aging Well: A Global View
by Patricia Noonan Walsh and Barbara LeRoy
Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2004. Softcover, 166 pages, $29.95
Aging, in our society, is not an easy process, but what occurs when growing older is complicated by other factors such as sexism, disability, and cultural concerns? In Women With Disabilities Aging Well: A Global View, Walsh and LeRoy address this question in an intriguing exploration of what happens to women with intellectual disabilities as they face middle and old age in a variety of countries.
Written by two academics with expertise in disability studies, Women With Disabilities Aging Well combines the personal accounts of over 160 women from eighteen countries with research about how their economic, self-care, independence, and relationships needs are currently being met. In addition, the authors present strategies for change in a multicultural framework. Reminiscent of the “women with disabilities” anthologies of the 1970s and later decades, this book takes the issue one step further with its inclusion of a cross-cultural approach and socioeconomic analysis. Recommended!
-Reviewed by Sally Rosenthal


About the reviewer: A former college librarian and occupational therapist, Sally Rosenthal is now disability-retired from both professions. A frequent contributor to animal and disabilities publications, she lives in Philadelphia with her guide dog Boise, her husband, and two formerly stray cats now enjoying the good life indoors.