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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
©2020
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English
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"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible,...
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IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. #1 I had agreed to two speaking engagements. In the morning, I spoke to one hundred fifty undergraduates on selective infanticide. In the evening, it was a convivial discussion of assisted suicide. I was the token cripple with an opposing view. #2 I am in the first generation to survive to such decrepitude. Because antibiotics were available, we didn't die from the childhood pneumonias...
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Mint Editions
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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In 1905, after suffering a relapse and spending a few months at The Hartford Retreat, Clifford Whittingham Beers elected to write a book about his experiences living with mental illness and being subject to cruel treatment and physical abuse while being institutionalized. Titled, A Mind That Found Itself, the 1908 autobiography told the story of a young man who had suffered a life full of personal tragedy, leading to feelings of intense anxiety,...
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English
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Imagine that you are a parent of a child with no visible disability, but whose experiences of everyday life present constant challenges. What may be typical activities for most people are a struggle, often resulting in social, emotional, and academic problems. Sensory Processing Disorder, a complex brain disorder, affects one in twenty children. They experience sensations--taste, touch, sound, sight, smell, movement and body awareness--vastly differently...
Publisher:
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another...
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Get in the way of ruthless people and it's gonna get you killed. Cady Grey is invisible. One of the 'perks' of being a wheelchair user. Sometimes it's better that way, 'specially when you're a sweary, spitty teenage girl who's main aim is getting through high-school in one piece.But then a sinister shell company wants to knock their school down and is prepared to stop at nothing. She and her friends are the only ones invested enough to care and smart...
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English
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"This comprehensive handbook reviews the major theoretical, methodological, and instructional advances that have occurred in the field of learning disabilities. With contributions from leading researchers, the volume synthesizes a vast body of knowledge on the nature of learning disabilities, their relationship to basic psychological and brain processes, and how students with these difficulties can best be identified and treated. Findings are reviewed...
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Publisher:
Stillhouse Press
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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"In Between Spaces", Stillhouse Press's first ever anthology, centers the experiences of thirty-three disabled poets, short-story writers, and essayists as they navigate the physical and emotional complexities of disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence, and mental illness. Compiled by an editorial team of disabled writers, this timely collection of often-overlooked voices celebrates joy, freedom, and the power of agency, while at the same time...
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Publisher:
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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The late Zig Ziglar delivers life-changing wisdom and guidance in this compilation of touching stories about people who overcame disabilities and disadvantages, or who overcame all odds in fields from which they were excluded. These heartfelt stories teach us the lessons of a lifetime and guide us toward finding our own contentment. Zig reveals the surest path to happiness and helps your untapped joy and gratefulness for life become visible. In...
14. Dandelion Heart
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Publisher:
Debut Books
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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A love letter to all the minds and bodies the world is still trying to force into a mould long broken. Dandelion Heart is an eye-opening collection of poignant essays and poetry that grapples with disability in an identity-driven world. Exploring powerful themes ranging from body image and self-esteem to sex, relationships, and mental health, author and disability rights advocate, Kelly Vincent, draws on her own experiences as an autistic and physically...
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Publisher:
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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This series explores disability in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. This book explores what disability means and covers different types of disabilities both visible and invisible. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage students to LOOK, THINK, MAKE A GUESS, ASK QUESTIONS, and CREATE. Books are authored by writers with disabilities, feature accessible text, and was developed in partnership with Easterseals who is leading the way...
16. Nothing Special
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This account of two siblings, one with Down syndrome, growing up in 1970s Connecticut. Nothing Special is a disarmingly candid tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in rural Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down syndrome, is an extrovert with a knack for getting what she wants, while the author, her younger, typically developing sister, shoulders the burdens and grief of her parents, especially their father's alcoholism. Dianne Bilyak...
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A TarcherPerigee Book
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
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"Born Extraordinary helps parents of children with differences and disabilities to relinquish their instinctive anxieties, embrace their new normal, and ultimately find joy in watching their children thrive. Often the subjects of unwanted attention-ranging from pitying stares to bullying-Zucker and her sons have learned to ignore what others think and live fearlessly. Also incorporating the stories of other families with visible and invisible differences...
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Breakwater Books Ltd
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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In the fictional village of Rocky Point, Cape Breton, just after WWII, the Briar family keeps a secret. Locked in his room, Joseph Briar, a child with visible and non-visible disabilities, is hidden from the community. And what Alfie Johns discovers through Joseph's window will lead him to love and a future framing beauty in photographs. Harkening back to Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, Beatrice MacNeil...
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Valois J. Vera
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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'I, The Revolution', from Valois J. Vera (aka "Crip Lyrical") is a collection of poems that screams for justice for marginalized people. Vera champions liberation and grapples with identity, chronic pain, community, the impact of isms, and how to make the world more accessible for all. In the end, Vera comes to the conclusion that to be disabled is to be revolutionary. This collection ties in many social justice movements and shows that crip liberation...
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Publisher:
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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The biopsies of my life growing up fast and hard and being disabled in the real world is one that did not come easy. It took me over forty years to overcome it and a lot of the reason I was able to be because of my prayer life. Just like people in war come back with post-traumatic stress syndrome, people that are disabled that are abused by their peers also shut down their emotions, believing that they will not get hurt again. And this takes a long...