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  • Connected: How a Cochlear Implant Made Me More Deaf

    by John Cradden ...
    Born deaf, John Cradden grew up as a 'hearing' person with the help of powerful hearing aids - attending fully mainstream schools, learning no sign language, and having no friends who were also deaf. In his late thirties he went almost completely deaf and decided to get a cochlear implant. The whole process of getting one proved long but fascinating and the implant worked successfully. But some ... Read more

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    Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life

    by Gerald Shea ...
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    A "fascinating memoir" of living with partial deafness that offers new insight into the nature of language ( Booklist).Much has been written about the profoundly deaf, but the lives of the nearly thirty million partially deaf people in the United States today remain hidden. Song without Words tells the astonishing story of a man who, at the age of thirty-four, discovered that he had been unable to ... Read more

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  • Count Us In

    Growing Up with Down Syndrome

    by Jason Kingsley, Mitchell Levitz ...
    Award winner: "Hearing about Down syndrome directly from these young men has a good deal more impact than reading any guide from a professional." — BooklistThis book is in Mitchell and Jason's own words. . . . We wanted readers to have a true-to-life sense of their charm, their directness, their humor and warmth, and, yes, their intelligence.At ages nineteen and twenty-two, respectively, Jason ... Read more

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  • Beasts of Burden

    Animal and Disability Liberation

    by Sunaura Taylor ...
    A bold and beautifully written inquiry into the intertwined struggles for animal and disability justice—challenging what it means to be humanIn this provocative and original work, artist, activist, and scholar Sunaura Taylor, “Judith Butler meets St. Francis of Assisi” (The New Yorker), explores the profound connections between animal liberation and disability justice. With keen insight and ... Read more

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  • The Little Red Chair

    by Alan A. Malizia ...
    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, sadness, loss, victory, joy, peace and happiness. All those things of life that steer our ... Read more

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  • Disability and Contemporary Performance

    Bodies on the Edge

    by Petra Kuppers ...
    Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and ... Read more

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  • Understanding Psychosocial Adjustment to Chronic Illness and Disability

    A Handbook for Evidence-Based Practitioners in Rehabilitation

    by Fong Chan, PhD, CRC, Elizabeth Da Silva Cardoso, PhD, Julie A. Chronister ...
    Rehabilitation practitioners face the difficult task of helping clients adjust to chronic illness or disability. This can be a long and trying process for both practitioner and client. With this handbook, however, practitioners and students can gain a wealth of insight into the critical issues clients face daily.This book presents the dominant theories, models, and evidence-based techniques ... Read more

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  • Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture

    by Carol Poore ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Comprehensively researched, abundantly illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose . . . With great skill, Poore weaves diverse types of evidence, including historical sources, art, literature, journalism, film, philosophy, and personal narratives into a tapestry which illuminates the cultural, political, and economic processes responsible for the marginalization, stigmatization, ... Read more

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  • Our Better Angels

    Stories of Disability in Life, Science, and Literature

    by J. David Smith ...
    Do children and adults with disabilities enrich our lives? Far more than most people imagine.Our Better Angels is a testament to the value of individuals with disabilities and the value that society could derive from being more welcoming to and inclusive of them. The reward is the powerful humanizing influence that they can have on others-even some of the most hardened people among us.Colorful, ... Read more

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  • Making the Transition to Home

    Simple Modifications to Encourage Independent Living

    by Paul Furtaw ...
    "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 to allow continued independence. Having an aging parent move into the home can also require modifications in ... Read more

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  • Developing Play and Drama in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders

    by Dave Sherratt, Melanie Peter ...
    Learning through play is a well-established principle that underpins much educational practice, yet it is often overlooked in association with children with autistic spectrum disorders. This book considers the wide-ranging benefits of developing play and taking it into drama with these children. The authors demonstrate how to implement such approaches via a highly practical, structured ... Read more

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  • Disability and Passing

    Blurring the Lines of Identity

    Edited by Jeffrey A Brune, Daniel J Wilson ...
    Passing—an act usually associated with disguising race—also relates to disability. Whether a person classified as mentally ill struggles to suppress aberrant behavior to appear "normal" or a person falsely claims a disability to gain some advantage, passing is a pervasive and much discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, Disability and Passing is the first anthology to examine this issue.The editors ... Read more

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