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  • Roots and Fences
    Sharon Gregory Duncan Edd
    Meet Jackie, Chuck, Jonathon, and Jamee-four people intricately linked by the common thread of disability. Roots and Fences tells of their life experiences, as well as their friends and families, from a phenomenological perspective. It’s a compelling collection that exposes the reality of life for those with intellectual disabilities and the people who love them. Through these ...
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    24,08 €

  • I’m Not Here to Inspire You
    Rob J. Quinn
    In this collection of essays, Rob J. Quinn offers insights on his own experiences as a man living with cerebral palsy and challenges the perceptions of people with disabilities offered by the able-bodied world. Many of the pieces are meant to give teens and young adults living with physical disabilities a new perspective on some of the issues they are dealing with in their dail...
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    12,48 €

  • Framing the moron
    Gerald O’Brien
    Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent people being involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated. ...
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    157,50 €

  • Autism
    Simone Brenneman
    Please note: this book was originally published as Effervescence: A True-Life Tale of Autism and of Courage Please visit Simone’s website to view more information, as well as TV and radio appearances: autismembrace.com or effervescentclarity.com An excerpt from Autism: Hot Pink and Zebra-Striped:       Imagine a beautiful little girl, with long curly, wild red hair, spinning in...
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    32,33 €

  • Autism
    Simone Brenneman
    Please note: this book was originally published as Effervescence: A True-Life Tale of Autism and of Courage Please visit Simone’s website to view more information, as well as TV and radio appearances: autismembrace.com or effervescentclarity.com An excerpt from Autism: Hot Pink and Zebra-Striped:       Imagine a beautiful little girl, with long curly, wild red hair, spinning in...
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    19,83 €

  • Taking Care
    Mary Grimley Mason / Mary Grimley Mason
    Taking Care, based on twenty-six interviews and other autobiographical narratives, challenges the negative stereotypes about mothers with disabilities. These women’s stories tell of their successes despite the barriers they encounter from the society in which they live. Covering issues in the mothering cycle from pregnancy and birth to raising a child through adulthood, the mot...
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    50,55 €

  • Diversity in Disney Films
    Johnson Cheu
    Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog to "Spanish-mode" Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3, Disney films h...
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    42,48 €

  • The Art and Science of Teaching Orientation and Mobility to Persons with Visual Impairments
    Henry Jacobson William / William Henry Jacobson
    The second edition of this popular and classic text, now updated for the 21st century, provides a complete manual for the beginning O&M instructor that serves as a reference for the experienced practitioner as well. An invaluable guide for teaching travel techniques to students of all ages, the second edition of The Art and Science of Teaching Orientation and Mobility provides ...
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    103,39 €

  • How Katie Got a Voice
    Patricia LMervine M.ACCC-SLP
    “How Katie Got a Voice (and a cool new nickname)” is a story of challenge, triumph, and acceptance. The students and teachers of Cherry Street School all have nicknames that celebrate their differences. But the new girl, Katie, is really different. She can’t walk. She can’t talk. It seems like she can’t do anything! So how can the other students involve her in their activ...
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    20,38 €

  • The Cultural Determinants of Ill-Health
    Tatah Peter Ntaimah
    This exploratory study aimed at assessing the cultural determinants of the weight of health problems in Cameroon with focus on the experience of person living with epilepsy in the Manguissa community. It also took into consideration socio-economic and environmental factors that surround patients. It is based on paucity of data on the social aspects in disease burden assessment....
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    38,14 €

  • Disability, Society and Theology. Voices from Africa
    Disability, Society and Theology: Voices from Africa is the result of a workshop which brought together African theologians, persons with disabilities and disability expertise in the Region to prepare resource materials to enrich the disability study process in the context of the Africa region. The book is in six parts and includes contributions from scholars across the contine...
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    77,99 €

  • Universal Design as a Rehabilitation Strategy
    Jon A. Sanford / Jon ASanford
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    93,51 €

  • Best Practice in Accessible Tourism
    This book brings together global experts in planning, design and management to inform and stimulate providers of travel, transport, accommodation, leisure and tourism services to serve guests with disabilities, seniors and the wider markets that require good accessibility. ...
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    59,55 €

  • Bulletproof Expert Systems
    Timothy Richardson PT
    Bulletproof Expert Systems: Clinical Decision Support for Physical Therapists in the Outpatient Setting is a physical therapist manager’s workbook with stories, checklists, charts, graphs and tables. Bulletproof Expert Systems also provides many paper-based and electronic templates for use in your clinic’s Electronic Medical Record. Bulletproof Expert Systems describes how you ...
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    80,85 €

  • Deaf Community in America
    Melvia M Nomeland / Ronald E Nomeland
    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 and language. Of particular interest is the way in which deafness has been incre...
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    42,80 €

  • Truly Blessed
    Nancy D. Price
    When author Nancy D. Price’s son Robert Kevin Price was born with a congenital cataract and was profoundly deaf and severely retarded, she and her husband, Bob, began a journey through unchartered waters, trying to find help for their second child, their first-born son, Robbie.In Truly Blessed, Price begins her family’s story where her first book, Living with Robbie, ended. She...
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    30,62 €

  • Disability and Community
    Examines an array of issues related to disability and community. This title also examines a range of social institutions and practices such as education, employment, and cultural venues and the extent to which and how they include people with disabilities in the workings of these institutions. ...
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    276,67 €

  • What Dog Would Ever Love a Flea?
    Marion Mike
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    18,63 €

  • A Parkinson Experience
    Jeffery Hayton
    Pauline read Jeffery’s descriptive poems about living with Parkinson’s Disease and agreed to illustrate the work. The poems cover topics such as first diagnosis, followed by a description of the most common symptoms (due to the complexity of the condition, the individual’s experience with symptoms can differ widely). There is a section covering therapy and treatments I have exp...
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    23,07 €

  • Doris
    Helen Harris
    A happy O’Malley family of four sisters, one brother, father and mother, lived in a row house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The smallest, youngest, and favorite of all was Doris. However, her life changed dramatically at age eleven, and her family and others were devastated. We were heading to the mall when I realized she was not moving. The ambulance was called and in those d...
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    20,01 €

  • Doris
    Helen Harris
    A happy O’Malley family of four sisters, one brother, father and mother, lived in a row house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The smallest, youngest, and favorite of all was Doris. However, her life changed dramatically at age eleven, and her family and others were devastated. We were heading to the mall when I realized she was not moving. The ambulance was called and in those d...
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    30,04 €

  • Craig Richardson
    Rebecca Richardson Rn Bsn
    CRAIG RICHARDSON: A Life Worth Living, With DisabilitiesBorn in 1981, Craig Richardson was soon diagnosed with a chromosomal deletion, and its grim prognosis. Within a year, he had stopped breathing, and began having devastating seizures. In this account, his mother, a registered nurse who had worked in neonatal intensive care units, relates how their family coped with the ex...
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    23,42 €

  • Don’t Just Sign... Communicate!
    Michelle Jay
    The Heart Of Any Language Is Found Within Its Culture... As anyone who has learned a foreign language will tell you, all language is an experience. And that experience is found through a language's culture its people. The journey toward complete comprehension and usage of American Sign Language includes the recognition, not only of the sovereignty of the language, but of th...
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    32,54 €

  • Don’t Just Sign... Communicate!
    Michelle Jay
    Start ASL, the leading online resource for ASL and Deaf Culture, has created this easy-to-use and convenient Terminology Pocket Guide. If you’re on the go, or whenever you simply need to make a quick reference, you’ll find this tiny yet practical book to be a great friend in your immersion into American Sign Language and the Deaf community. This handy little Pocket Guide contai...
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    6,26 €

  • The Promised Cookie
    David P. Sortino Ph. D.
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    17,36 €

  • The Promised Cookie
    David P. Sortino Ph. D.
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    28,60 €

  • The Magic Bullet!!
    Lee Rzepkowski
    This book is for education to the general public about disabilities. To understand how much a person can suffer but at the same time enjoy life with determination and confidence. 3 ...
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    13,43 €

  • What Do You Use to Help Your Body?
    Jewel Kats
    Who are the people with disabilities in your neighborhood?Maggie and Momma love going for walks. During every outing, Maggie learns aboutsomething new. Today’s no different! Momma has arranged for Maggie to meet lotsof people in her neighborhood. They all have different jobs. They all come from differentcultures. They all use different things to help their bodies. Maggie doesn’...
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    23,52 €

  • A Few Impertinent Questions
    Berthajane Vandegrift
    The Freudian view seemed to be that people consist of Ids, ego’s and superego’s. People are supposedly also inhabited by something called a subconscious, a mysterious entity with a tendency to think naughty thoughts and keep them a secret from one’s conscious self. When this naughty subconscious takes over and controls one’s actions - without permission - people become neurotic...
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    22,13 €

  • Making Rights a Reality?
    Lisa Vanhala
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    144,84 €


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