Disability category: 614 books
Silent Life and Silent Language
The Inner Life of a Mute in an Institution for the Deaf
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Silent Life and Silent Language presents a fictionalized account of life at a Midwestern residential school for deaf students in the years following the Civil War. Based on the experiences of the author, who became deaf at the age of nine and entered a residential school when she was twelve, this...
The Price of Silence
A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Liza Long is the mother of a child who has bipolar disorder. When she heard about the Newtown shooting, her first thought was, “What if my son does that someday?” She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy, which the Boise State University online journal published as “I Am Adam Lanza's Mother.”...
The Deaf Community in America
History in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics include attitudes toward the deaf in Europe and America and the evolution of communication...
Bohuslav Martinu
The Compulsion to Compose
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Bohemian composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) was exceptionally prolific, composing over 400 imaginative, well-crafted, and diverse pieces, including symphonies, operas, ballet scores, and other orchestral works. For 12 years (1941-1953), he lived in America, during which he enjoyed a brilliant reputation,...
Journey into Blindness
An Inspirational Story of Overcoming Trauma and Regaining a Valuable Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Kent Christy offers his readers the moving story of his gradual loss of vision and the trauma and emotional turmoil this caused in his life. As he notes in his introduction, going totally blind is in many ways not so different from the experience of losing a limb, developing a debilitating illness,...
by Carlo Filippo Follis
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Cos'è il D‑Mondo? Un nuovo pianeta? Una componente del multiverso? No, certamente no. Il D‑Mondo per l'autore è una realtà immateriale che condivide la volumetria di quel mondo che è di tutti, il D‑Mondo è quindi l'insieme dei Disabili idealmente aggregati e distinti dalla «“D‑”...
On the Beat of Truth
A Hearing Daughter’s Stories of Her Black Deaf Parents
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
As an African American woman born in 1943, Maxine Childress Brown possessed a unique vantage point to witness the transformative events in her parents’ lives. Both came from the South -- her father, Herbert Childress, from Nashville, TN, and her mother, Thomasina Brown, from Concord, NC. The oldest...
by Paolo Ghezzi, Emanuela Artini
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Questo è un libro suggestivo e sorprendente perché strana è la protagonista, una ragazza con un cervello molto speciale (dalla nascita), che vede poco, non sa leggere né camminare da sola, ma inventa frasi surreali e conia parole (come l’autobiografica Filololò del titolo) e sa a memoria centinaia...
Sounds Like Home
Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Mary Herring Wright’s memoir adds an important dimension to the current literature in that it is a story by and about an African American deaf child. The author recounts her experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina, from the 1920s through the 1940s. Her story is unique...
by Michael Joseph Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This is the story of Michael Kennedy's life. Born in 1960 with significant disabilities, he describes his early experiences living in three different institutions for the mentally retarded and how he had to become his own advocate if he was going to survive. He soon realized that, unlike most of the...
Words Made Flesh
Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in...
by Anna Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
When Anna and Sean Kennedy discovered that one of their sons had asperger's syndrome and that their other son was autistic, they were truly devastated - but their family's troubles were just the beginning.Turned away by no fewer than 26 special needs schools when searching for appropriate educational...
by William B. Swett
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In Adventures of a Deaf-Mute, Deaf New Englander William B. Swett recounts his adventures in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the late 1860s. Given to us in short, energetic episodes, Swett tells daring stories of narrow escapes from death and other perilous experiences during his time as a...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
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