How Long to Read Holding Up The Sky Together

How Long Does it Take to Read Holding Up The Sky Together?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 18 minutes to read Holding Up The Sky Together by Ronald Bishop

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Even as kindness toward individuals with intellectual disabilities has increased, encountering an individual and his or her family whose lives revolve around the daily challenges that come with them is atypical, or is experienced and narrated as such, particularly by the media. Even when there is progress, making such a leap provides rhetorical cover, or at least a distraction, while intolerance regroups. And for some, it becomes less about showing love and compassion than about being able to pat oneself on the back when an interaction with a person like our son Neil is over. But it’s why they don’t know, or are curious but reluctant to engage, or just flat out lack empathy, that compelled us to write this book. Contributing to their misimpressions and misanthropy are portrayals of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the mass media, scant though they are. We should always be skeptical of those in my line of work who argue that the onslaught of information we take in from a widened array of sources can magically change our behavior – the so-called “hypodermic needle” theory of media effects. But these messages do help us craft our realities and develop and share our own narratives about folks with intellectual disabilities. Holding Up the Sky Together is admittedly a hybrid: part memoir, part academic analysis—a professor with more than 30 published articles and four books, all of which revolve around media analysis, looks inward. But our fervent hope is to inject a bit more realism into the national dialogue about intellectual disabilities. We are grateful for increased awareness and tolerance, for Special Olympics, and for shows like Born This Way. But there is so much more to be done.

How long is Holding Up The Sky Together?

Holding Up The Sky Together by Ronald Bishop is 195 pages long, and a total of 49,725 words.

This makes it 66% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Holding Up The Sky Together Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 31 minutes to read Holding Up The Sky Together aloud.

What Reading Level is Holding Up The Sky Together?

Holding Up The Sky Together is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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