Disability category: 614 books
Dear Marcus
A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The idea to write to you was not an easy one.
The scar from where the bullet entered my back is still there.
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Jerry McGill was thirteen years old, walking home through the projects of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when he was shot in the back by a stranger. Jerry survived, wheelchair-bound for...
Powered On
The SOUNDS I choose to hear and the NOISE I don't
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Powered On is the uplifting, true story of Sarah Churman's amazing transition from a life without natural hearing to a new world of sound. Nearly three decades after being born profoundly deaf, an advancement in technology allowed Sarah to hear the voices of her own children clearly for the very...
In a Different Key
The Story of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
**Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
An extraordinary narrative history of autism: the riveting story of parents fighting for their children ’s civil rights; of doctors struggling to define autism; of ingenuity, self-advocacy, and profound social change.**
Nearly...
Writing Deafness
The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American...
by Amy Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
There was no blood at the scene, not even a cut on his body.Yet on May 25, 1999, when the top of a massive beech tree snapped off and slammed into 33-year-old, Adirondack logger Scott Remington, his bones exploded.The terrain was unforgiving and the area too remote for cell phones.So the fact that...
Certified Rehabilitation Counselor Examination Preparation
A Concise Guide to the Rehabilitation Counselor Test
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
This user-friendly new study guide will help graduate students and professionals in rehabilitation counseling to prepare thoroughly for the CRC® examination. It provides a complete, detailed review of the CRC exam built on the most recent, empirically based rehabilitation counselor roles and function...
Supporting College and University Students with Invisible Disabilities
A Guide for Faculty and Staff Working with Students with Autism, AD/HD, Language Processing Disorders, Anxiety, and Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
With increasing numbers of students with invisible disabilities attending college and university, faculty and staff find themselves faced with new challenges. This practical handbook provides lecturers, tutors, disability services, and administrative staff with an overview of the invisible disabilities...
Waist-High In The World
A Life Among the Nondisabled
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.
by Bob Innes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
British Philosopher Bob Innes takes the position of the individual with Existential Awareness in the modern world and looks at the social illusory position that this individual may have in regard to;
Conformity
The Artist
The Scapegoat
The Prison Writer
Mental...
Wheelchair Warrior
Gangs, Disability, and Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was “both the worst and best thing that happened” to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. He attended...
Raising Henry
A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Best Practice in Accessible Tourism
Inclusion, Disability, Ageing Population and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
This volume presents an international selection of invited contributions on policy and best practice in accessible tourism, reflecting current practices across a range of destinations and business settings. It brings together global expertise in planning, design and management to inform and stimulate...
by Cally Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Come and spend a whole week with No Labels (fictional) Drama Group and learn that there is no such thing as challenging behaviour, only creative behaviour. Meet the cast and share in their journey, as they dispense with the Learning Disability label and teach us through drama and...
by Jillian Weise
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award The Book of Goodbyes speaks to a certain deranged love that throws into question sex, legality, gender-politics, disability, and the end of an affair. The book shifts between lyric and narrative, hyper-realism and magical realism, fact and fiction, and is organized like a play with Act I, Intermission, Act II, and Curtain Call.