Stanley D. Klein, Ph.D.,
clinical psychologist and educator, founded DisABILITIESBOOKS,
Inc. in 2002 and serves as Director of the company.
He also serves as Series Editor, People with Disabilities
Press.
Two new books co-edited by Dr. Klein were published
in 2004.
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Reflections from a
Different Journey: What Adults with Disabilities
Wish All Parents Knew, co-edited with John D.
Kemp with a Foreword by Marlee Matlin, Academy
Award winning actress who is deaf, is a book of
forty inspiring and realistic essays by successful
adult role models. In preparing their essays,
each author was asked to write about something
they wished their own parents had read or been
told while they were growing up. John Kemp’s
Afterword describes his experiences growing up
as a person with a disability. McGraw-Hill is
the publisher.
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From There to Here: Stories of Adjustment to Spinal
Cord Injury, co-edited with Gary Karp with a Foreword
by Marcie Roth, Executive Director of the National
Spinal Cord Injury Association, is a book of forty-five
essays by women and men who describe how they coped
with a spinal cord injury. Gary Karp, author of
Life on Wheels, For the Active Wheelchair User and
Choosing A Wheelchair, A Guide for Optimal Independence
is also the author of one of the essays. No Limits
Communications, the publishers of New Mobility magazine,
is the publisher. |
In 2001, You Will Dream New Dreams, Inspiring personal
stories by parents of children with disabilities,
was published by Kensington Books. It was co-edited
with Kim Schive with a Foreword by Richard Thornburgh,
former Governor of Pennsylvania and a parent. It is
a book of essays by “veteran parents” for
new parents of children with disabilities.
Since May, 2007, Dr. Klein has served as Co-Chair of the Obama ’08 Disability Policy Committee. Click here to read Senator Obama’s Plan to Empower People with Disabilities, as well as to find other related content.
Dr. Klein provides clinical services for parents of children with disabilities at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is also a regular contributor to inSight, the national newsletter of The Arc.
In recent years, he helped Merrill Lynch establish
its Families of Children with Disabilities Program and
served as “Special Needs Expert” at Parents.com
(Parents magazine Web site).
Dr. Klein co-founded Exceptional Parent magazine in
1971 and served as editor-in-chief of the magazine for
parents of children with disabilities until 1997. During
that time, he was the author or co-author of over 200
articles and editorials.
In 1996, he retired, after 19 years, as Professor of
Psychology and Director of the Counseling Service at
the New England College of Optometry. During his career,
Dr. Klein also taught at Simmons College School of Social
Work, University of Massachusetts/Boston, Clark University,
Boston University, Wheelock College, Emmanuel College,
Lesley College, and Indiana University.
Dr. Klein frequently lectures to health care and education
professionals about communicating with parents of children
with disabilities, particularly the challenge of delivering
difficult diagnostic news. He has lectured on this topic
at teaching hospitals and many other clinical and educational
settings throughout the U.S. as well as in Greece, United
Kingdom, Israel, and Germany. Dr. Klein also does lectures
and workshops for parents’ organizations. Click
here for a list of lecture/workshop
topics and a current schedule
of appearances.
He began working with children with disabilities in
1954 as a camp counselor while he was a college student.
Dr. Klein received his Ph.D. in psychology from Clark
University in 1963; he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate
of Lehigh University in 1957. He became a licensed psychologist
in 1963 and had a private psychotherapy and consulting
practice serving children and adults until 1995.
Dr. Klein is the author of Psychological Testing of
Children: A Consumer’s Guide (Exceptional Parent
Press, 1977) and the co-editor of two books: The Disabled
Child and the Family: An Exceptional Parent Reader (Exceptional
Parent Press, 1985) and It Isn’t Fair: Siblings
of Children with Disabilities (Bergin & Garvey,
1993). He has also written the Forewords of Special
Siblings. Growing Up with Someone with a Disability
(Brookes Publishing, 2001) and Fighting for Darla. The
Case Study of a Pregnant Adolescent with Autism (Teachers
College Press, 1994), seven chapters in books, and many
articles in professional and parent-oriented publications
and Internet sites.
Dr. Klein has received numerous national awards for
his work from organizations such as the American Psychological
Association, The President’s Committee on the
Employment of People with Disabilities and the American
Association of Disability Communicators, The National
Down Syndrome Congress, National Parents Network on
Disabilities, American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and
Developmental Medicine, Bethesda Lutheran Homes and
Services and the National Easter Seals Society.
He has appeared on many radio and television programs
discussing children with disabilities and their families
and once served as the on-air child development expert
for WEEI, Boston. Dr. Klein is the parent of two children.
He has been active in politics and enjoys tennis and
bicycle riding. He currently resides in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Dr. Klein’s complete curriculum vita is available
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