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Disabilities, Social issues
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People with disabilities (PWDs) have the same aspirations for their lives as you do for yours. The difference is that…
PWDs don’t have the same access to education, employment, housing, transportation and healthcare in order to achieve their goals. In The Disability Experience you’ll meet people with different kinds of disabilities, and you'll begin to understand the ways PWDs have been ignored, reviled and marginalized throughout history. The book also celebrates the triumphs and achievements of PWDs and shares the powerful stories of those who have fought for change.
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Disabilities, Sports biography, Sports and games, Canadian travel and geography
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An uplifting and engaging celebration of Paralympic champions and the sports they dominate
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Disabilities, Journals and memoirs
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Victoria Freeman was only four when her parents followed medical advice and sent her sister away to a distant, overcrowded…
institution. Martha was not yet two, but in 1960s Ontario there was little community acceptance or support for raising children with intellectual disabilities at home. In this frank and moving memoir, Victoria describes growing up in a world that excluded and dehumanized her sister, and how society’s insistence that only a “normal” life was worth living affected her sister, her family, and herself, until changing attitudes to disability and difference offered both sisters new possibilities for healing and self-discovery.