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Get the Summary of Andrew Leland's The Country of the Blind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Country of the Blind" by Andrew Leland is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted experience of blindness. Leland delves into the varied perceptions and realities of being blind, from the common misconception of total darkness to the actual diversity of visual experiences among the blind. He shares his personal...
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This textbook, in a simple language, for the research scholars provides deep and penetrating analysis of various traits of personality, mental health and emotional stability of children with special needs. All the emerging issues and concerns are, discussed in detail in their constitutional, physical, psychological and physiological perspectives. The work of Indian as well as Foreign authors are, given due, emphasis in understanding the special needs...
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Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten-year span of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in the self, a book about facing life's challenges outwardly and within, and about reading those clues-those deeply felt signals-that can help guide the way. It is also, more broadly, about the importance...
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Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting 'the human' in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions. The 'human' emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle, and the degradation, marginalisation and immiseration...
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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 daily lives. Quinn tackles topics such as going to school, physical therapy,...
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In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before envisioned, whilst others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled'. Understanding disability policy locates disability policy...
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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 and the series has been developed in partnership with Easterseals who is leading the way to full...
88) Stuck in neutral
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him
89) Service dogs
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"This series explores disability in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. This book explores service dogs and how they assist their handlers. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage students to LOOK, THINK, MAKE A GUESS, ASK QUESTIONS, and CREATE. Books are authored by writers with disabilities and the series has been developed in partnership with Easterseals who is leading the way to full equity, inclusion, and access through life-changing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading his powerful message: disability is not inability. Today,...
91) King for a day
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Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Even though he is confined to a wheelchair, a Pakistani boy tries to capture the most kites during Basant, the annual spring kite festival, and become "king" for the day. Includes an afterword about the Basant festival"--Provided by publisher
92) One-handed catch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities
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Robert Mercer's life could have been very different. He was born with very low vision and, as a youngster, struggled in school. But through the intervention of a caring teacher and the support of his family, he found his way to the Halifax School for the Blind and into the classroom of Mrs. Beaton. It was there that he discovered his voice, a voice he uses to recount his remarkable journey from a shy little boy to a community leader.
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Clay Byars was recovering at home from a near-fatal car crash when he suffered a massive stroke. He was just eighteen years old. He awoke, back in the hospital, and was told he would be paralyzed from the eyes down for the rest of his life.
Determined to defy the odds, Clay quickly and miraculously began to recover his mobility but discovered just how different his life would be-a disparity embodied by his identical twin brother, Will. As Will went...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet
96) Fire Keep
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In an effort to find a way to bring Kyja back from Fire Keep, Marcus must enter the most dangerous place possible -- the realm of shadows. Time is running out for Kyja, Marcus, and their worlds and the Dark Circle's real plan is only now beginning to be revealed
97) Small steps
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Holes volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along
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Place called home (Lori Wick) volume 3
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English
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"She can't be dead!" the young pastor cried as he looked down at the still, white face of his new bride. Blinded by bitterness, Paul Cameron leaves his church and flees to a logging camp deep in the north woods of Wisconsin. There he wrestles with his loss-unable to get Corrine out of his mind and unwilling to make peace with God.
When a falling tree crushes his legs, Paul can run no further. Broken now in body as well as spirit, he must face his...
99) School of laughs
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I funny volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When a new principal threatens to close the school library, Jamie Grimm tries to save the day by teaching a comedy class for his fellow students
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Little A
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Who wants to believe their family could ever be broken? Devon and James Payne are brothers and rivals since childhood. But they share an affinity for sports that brings glory to their Connecticut town and promise for the future. Then they're in a car accident. Devon is paralyzed for life, while James goes on to live the dream. For the Paynes, the tremulous repercussions of that evening never settled. Over the course of a decade, Devon decides to visit...
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