Disability category: 614 books
A Brain's Battle Against a Stroke
My Recovery Combines My Memories of Dad's Approach with Medicine Today
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A stroke because it is the blocking of blood flow to tissues within the
brain can be life threatening , leave permanent damage, or require the
patient to do daily battle with his own brain.
The recovery of the stroke patient requires the specialist to treat , to understand and...
A Special Child in the Family
Living with your sick or disabled child
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Written by a parent for parents, this book is for anyone whose child is sick or disabled or has other special needs. It talks about feelings and how to cope with them. It looks at ways to balance the needs of your family, your special child and yourself, and it gives you parent-sized solutions you...
No Pity
People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.
by Maria Livia Pepe, Fabrizio Stasolla
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Le persone con disabilità multiple (seria e concomitante compromissione da un punto di vista intellettivo, motorio e sensoriale) presentano un repertorio comportamentale estremamente povero e limitato, scarse o nulle possibilità di interazione costruttiva con l’ambiente, severe disfunzioni neuro-muscolari,...
Paraendurance
Una nuova risorsa per lo sport - Un progetto scientifico
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Il Paraendurance si svolge in aperta campagna lungo tracciati dove le prove sono testate e giudicate secondo il Regolamento della Federazione Italiana Sport Equestri che è affiliata Federazione Equestre Internazionale dalla quale è riconosciuta quale unico rappresentante degli Sport Equestri in...
by SIMPLY SHARON
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2006
From the harrowing journal notes of a suffering woman in the throes of mold/mycotoxins injustice, comes the real life mold saga of the Pawlak family. A courageous, God fearing family of four finds themselves crossing over from home owners to homeless, the week our nation was bombed due to what TIME...
Not Exactly As Planned
A Memoir of Adoption, Secrets and Abiding Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Not Exactly As Planned is a captivating, deeply moving account of adoption and the unexpected challenges of raising a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. Linda Rosenbaum’s life takes a major turn when her son, adopted at birth, is diagnosed with irreversible brain damage. With love, hope and all...
Making the Transition to Home
Simple Modifications to Encourage Independent Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
"An excellent tool for case managers, discharge planners and other professionals involved with providing senior services who are having to explain home modifications" Monica N. Case manager. Making the transition from a care facility to home can mean sudden changes are needed in the home...
Midnight Confessions
The World as Seen Through the Eyes of an Autistic Poet with Ms
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In Midnight Confessions, poet Joy Olree, a self-described autistic poet with MS, presents a collection of user-friendly verse reflecting on her experiences with the world and her readings and studies of the Bible. She offers her opinions on a wide range of topics and invites disagreement and discussion.
Midnight...
The Butterfly
A Mother’S Story of Her Down's Syndrome Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This is the story of one familys journey with their daughter who has Downs syndrome from her birth in 1962 to her death in 2014 at the age of fifty-one. It also chronicles societys response to persons with disabilities from institutionalization for life to, more recently, living with families or in group homes and, for those who are able, training and employment.
Voices of a Dream
Stories from A Touch of Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Do you remember when you were a child in school? Can you picture that one student who was always teased or bullied because he or she seemed “different?” It may have been the way she walked, or the way he struggled to read. He may have had emotional outbursts. She may have used a wheelchair. There...
by Alan A. Malizia
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2004
This autobiography was inspired by a mothers wish. Something in the life of her child she felt was necessary to be documented. To fulfill that wish it was written.
It is a story about one persons life. A life that we all share in our own way. One filled with surprises, challenges, fears, disappointment,...
Antisocial Media
How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in massive surveillance all at once, you would make...
by Michael Mandelstam
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
The protection of vulnerable adults is a fast emerging area of work for local authorities, the NHS and other agencies. Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law, sets this within a comprehensive legal framework. The relevant law and guidance is extensive. It includes Department of Health guidance...