Disability category: 614 books
by Linda Darlene Marie Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
We are all on a journey. At this time, many of us baby boomers are on a journey of caring for our aging parents. Any life journey has its ups and downs. Many children never see this in their future. There are lots of feelings: frustration, hopelessness, anger, and inability to cope. This book is about...
Holding Up The Sky Together
Unpacking the National Narrative about People with Intellectual Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
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...
by Stephanie Allen Crist
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
First Steps: Understanding Autism is a clear, concise starter's guide for people interested in autism. Here you find the information you need to get up to speed on the major issues and challenges concerning autism. You gain a better understanding of what autism is, how it is experienced, and what...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Based on the Handbook of Rehabilitation Counseling (Rigger/Maki 2004), this new volume has been completely revised and updated to accommodate the overarching changes that have recently occurred in the field. It reflects the new, accepted definition of rehabilitation counseling as a specialization...
Deaf Diaspora
The Third Wave of Deaf Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Deaf people have the right to read, study, pray, worship, serve, discuss, and meditate on God's word. Ayres calls for the rediscovery of the spiritual legacy of the Deaf-World as he explores the history of ministry programs and proposes a definitive plan for the future. Deaf ministry patterns over...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
State-of-the-art developments in multiple new technologies for older adult care
Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well being...
by Lama Milkweed L. Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
I speak candidly about radiation sickness in a poignant manner, because of not only the fact concerning myself succumbing to it, but I wanted to create a memorable impact as well as there exist people scattered about this world as these same people are suffering and dying from this copiously sad disease,...
Count Us In
Growing Up with Down Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 1994
Award winner: “Hearing about Down syndrome directly from these young men has a good deal more impact than reading any guide from a professional.” —Booklist
This book is in Mitchell and Jason’s own words. . . . We wanted readers to have a true-to-life sense of their charm, their directness,...
Incontinence a Time to Heal with Yoga and Acupressure
A Six Week Exercise Program for People with Simple Stress Urinary Incontinence
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2006
About the Book "These exercises [for Simple Urinary Incontinence] really DO work! I use them regularly and I often remind my friends to do the same." Therese Sherry, Active Retiree, Arkansas Do you, like so many others, suffer from Simple Urinary Incontinence? Do you leak urine when you...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Increasingly dyslexia is becoming a whole-school issue. The responsibility for addressing the needs of dyslexic students no longer rests with one individual but is the responsibility of all school staff - subject specialists and school management. This timely book addresses this need by providing...
Proper People
Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
While many excellent books have been published about the nineteenth century county asylums in England, comparatively little has been written about the tens of thousands of real people, mostly “pauper lunatics”, who passed through their doors. Social historians starved of material providing a deep...
by Judith K. Witherow
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
In Strong Enough to Bend, author Judith K. Witherow compiles a sampling from four decades of her essays and poems that describe the real life experiences of a disabled, mixed blood Native American Indian lesbian raised in Appalachian poverty. Much of the work has been previously published in anthologies,...
The Forgotten Ones
A Sociological Study of Anglo and Chicano Retardates
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In The Forgotten Ones, originally published in 1972, Anne-Marie Henshel examines the lives of a group of persons living within the community who had been diagnosed at one time or another as mentally retarded. The analysis makes use of three sets of comparisons—Anglo and Chicano, married and single,...
Against the Pollution of the I
On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance — and survive the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp. He wrote about these experiences in his inspiring memoir And There Was Light. In this remarkable collection of essays, Lusseyran...