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  • In Dog We Trust (EPUB)

    Stories About Guide Dogs

    by Members and Friends of Guide Dog Users of Canada, Paul A. Bennett (Editor), Penny Leclair (Editor) ...
    It is awe-inspiring to witness the relationship between a blind person and their loyal, hard-working, intelligent, and loving guide dogs. Of course, every guide dog and blind person is different, so their relationships are all different. This short illustrated book recounts twenty-one heart-felt stories about the relationships between blind people and their guide dogs. Some are funny, some are sad ... Read more

    $5.46 USD

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  • Energetic EyeHealing

    No Exercise Way of Improving Vision

    by Roberto Kaplan, Vistara Haiduk ...
    Just as a blood test or an X-ray reveals functional reasons for health difficulties, information about the eye conditions can be decoded. There is a personal approach for each eye disorder. There is a deeper meaning for lowered eyesight, and eye diseases. These are deeply linked to the problems that show up in our lives. A disturbance in vision points to survival perceiving. Optometric vision ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wednesday's Child

    by Val Bird ...
    Entertaining, sad, funny, thought-provoking - and ultimately uplifting - this is a novel based on the life of an exceptional man, who happened to be intellectually handicapped. Inspired by the life of the author's intellectually handicapped brother, Ronald Downes, this novel is written in Ronnie's voice as he talks about important things. It's also about him needing all the looking after he can ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement

    Edited by Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson, Bob Sapey ...
    This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability.Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Sight Unseen

    Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes

    by Ellyn Kaschak ...
    Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals, along with the everyday epistemology of vision. Kaschak's work reveals not only how the blind ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability

    Stopping Insult and Injury

    by Sally Robinson ...
    There's so many different types of abuse, and it all comes down to the same thing. It's making people nothing. And Fran was nothing. There was never anything nice said about her, everything was negative. And she had to put up with that, and we had to put up with that, until we all sort of believed it, almost.'Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability throws ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Deaf People in Hitler's Europe

    Edited by Donna F. Ryan, John S. Schuchman ...
    Inspired by the conference “Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe, 1933–1945,” hosted jointly by Gallaudet University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998, this extraordinary collection, organized into three parts, integrates key presentations and important postconference research.Henry Friedlander begins “Part I: Racial Hygiene” by analyzing the assault on deaf people and people with ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • See For Yourself

    by Paul J Dougherty ...
    Dr. Paul Dougherty is the go-to eye surgeon for answers about the latest options in vision correction technology. His extensive professional experience, state-of-the-art training, and innovation of the latest lens and laser-based technologies, (plus having had vision correction surgery himself), place him in a unique position to help you sort out the many options now available for better vision ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Token For Mourners

    by John Flavel ...
    A TOKEN FOR MOURNERS. OR, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother, bewailing the death of her dear and only son ; wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the com- mon pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of god's afflicted ones ..... ... Read more

    $2.63 USD

  • Gaillard in Deaf America

    A Portrait of the Deaf Community, 1917, Henri Gaillard

    by Henri Gaillard, Robert M. Buchanan ...
    Series Book 3 - Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies
    In 1917, Henri Gaillard led a delegation of deaf French men to the United States for the centennial celebration of the American School for the Deaf (ASD). The oldest school for deaf students in America, ASD had been cofounded by renowned deaf French teacher Laurent Clerc, thus inspiring Gaillard’s invitation. Gaillard visited deaf people everywhere he went and recorded his impressions in a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind

    Medieval Constructions of a Disability

    by Edward Wheatley ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offers a cultural geography of medieval blindness that invites us to be more discriminating about how ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Disabled Childhoods

    Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities

    by Janice McLaughlin, Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Emma Clavering ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
    A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find themselves surrounded by multiple practices through which they are examined.This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative ... Read more

    $72.99 USD