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Adults in their 20s share their real experiences living with disability. This collection of first-person narratives and dialogues is grouped into sections pertaining to different aspects of the writers' lives, including education and work, family and relationships, health and wellness, self-image and sexual relations. Between Myself and Them is a rich and diverse set of stories that challenges the homogeneous interpretation of a very diverse group...
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Tools for People with Disabilities from a Person with a Disability
"Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride is fun, practical, and no-nonsense."-Stephanie Thomas, TEDx Speaker and founder, stylist, and editor-in-chief of the disability fashion lifestyle website, CUR8ABLE
#1 New Release in Physically Disabled Education
Lauren "Lolo'' Spencer provides a candid and real inside look into the life of being a person with a disability. This disability advocate...
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Finding out that you have a life-changing illness or injury can hit you like a tsunami.
The prospect of living with a disability can be, depressing-mourning all the things you used to be, capable of doing, feeling like a burden, and wondering how you will move, forward in a body that refuses to cooperate with the life you want to live. Anything Is Possible shows you how to use the trauma you've experienced as a tool for transformation to live a fulfilled...
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This book recounts the author's experience of living with young-onset Parkinson's disease. He writes with candor, vulnerability, and humor, revealing how Parkinson's has prompted his experiences of deeper understanding and a greater zest for life, as well as more wisdom, gratitude, and a mindful approach to living in the moment. He demonstrates how an incurable illness, despite its challenges, can be full of meaning, purpose, and happiness, and how...
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Patrick Vincelet bouscule les préjugés sur la cécité et propose un nouveau regard sur les non-voyants
Patrick Vincelet a consulté à l'Institut national des jeunes aveugles de Paris, à l'Hpital des Quinze-Vingts, à l'association Valentin Haüy et à l'école de chiens-guides de Paris. S'appuyant sur sa pratique, ce professeur d'université a formé de nombreux professionnels. Son enseignement sur la cécité et le regard, la sociologie du...
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Sunbreaks - hope. Unending storms - hard times. They can coexist. You live in storms of invisible disabilities. Or you know someone who does. Is there hope? Can there be purpose in life? FJ and Carole answer a resounding YES! As you explore their 40-year journey with Carole's invisible, unpredictable neurological disorders and watch FJ provide support and care, you will see their answers.
Delve into other families' experiences as they thrive despite...
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Funny Peculiar
Zsa Zsa, Raquelle, Blanche and Cuba are in quarantine, four disabled women locked down, locked in, shut up and shouted down.
While the rest of the nation is in meltdown, it takes, a lot to phase, this quartet.
The new terrain is, worrying and frustrating but these women are, prepared, perhaps they have, waited for a moment like this, their whole, lives.
In a sequence of four original, crosscutting, witty and wise monologues, broadcasting...
8) Endal
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The remarkable story of Endal, voted 'Dog of the Millennium', and how, through his remarkable skills, companionship and unstinting devotion, he gave Allen Parton a reason to live again. Allen Parton was seriously injured while serving in the Gulf War. He lost the use of both of his legs, plus all memories of his children and much of his marriage. He was left unable to walk, talk or write - isolated in his own world. After five years of intensive therapy...
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Created and spearheaded by Prince Harry, for whom this is a very personal cause, the Games are for current and former servicemen and women who have been wounded, injured or sick. Most races are about who gets to the finish line first. At the Invictus Games, even making the start line is an achievement beyond measure. Triple amputees, cancer survivors, multiple sclerosis patients, PTSD sufferers and many more all compete. They have been through the...
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At seventeen, Barbara's daughter Jennifer is in a horrific car accident and sustains a traumatic brain injury that sends her into a two-week coma. Once she awakens, a unique disability presents itself: Jenn lacks any traditional method of communication. Unable to speak or function on her own, Jenn must relearn basic life skills in a rehabilitation facility while Barbara and her family struggle to piece together their lives, now forever changed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"An overview of the Paralympic Games featuring sports played by Individuals and teams of athletes competing against each other ... Like the Olympic Games, the Paralympic Games showcase super strength and skills, stamina and endurance both individually and through teamwork."--
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