Her comments on matters of theory are also important. She gives lessons to professionals and academics who take it on themselves to speak for disabled people when, for example, they preach unfettered forms of the social model of disability. Her understanding of theory of mind and of central coherence is particularly illuminating. Conversely, her criticism of Wolfensberger's "social role valorization" seems off-target, and not in line with UK interpretations of the approach over the last twenty years.

This book deserves five stars, but I can give it four only, because of its typesetting and editing. Why use a sans serif font, and compound this cruelty by using sans serif italics for quotations? There are too many typesetting errors. An editor should have shortened the author's sentences, and should have reduced severely her use of parentheses. In short, I suffered tired eyes because of the presentation of this book. Yet, I could not put it down because of the quality of its intellectual and human content.