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The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only functioning muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable account of being locked inside his own body. 1997.
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Abbey Curran lives by the motto "If you can dream it, you can do it." She was born with cerebral…
palsy, but early on she resolved to never let it limit her. Abbey made history when she became the first contestant with a disability to win a major beauty pageant. After earning the title of Miss Iowa, she went on to compete in Miss USA. Growing up on a hog farm in Illinois, Abbey competed in local pageants despite naysayers who told her not to. After realizing her own dream, she went on to help other disabled girls achieve their goals by starting Miss You Can Do It, a national nonprofit pageant for girls and women with challenges and special needs. In this uplifting memoir, Abbey tells a story of overcoming the odds, fulfilling her life's goals, and finding in herself the courage to compete, even as she continues to inspire the same spirit in others. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.
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At age 52, the author was stricken by a massive heart attack while hunting elk. He reveals his torturous recovery…
and the strains his illness placed on himself and his family. 1986.
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Personnes handicapées (biographies), Personnes aveugles ou ayant une vision partielle (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Déficiences, Cécité et déficience visuelle
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Chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, born into a New Hampshire farm family in 1829, became deaf and blind…
at the age of two. Freeberg recounts Laura's transformation into a woman who voraciously absorbed the world around her under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. 2001.
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Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness.…
Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health care system, and social stigmas. But she would not be defeated. With a strength and force of will that most can only imagine, Saks reclaimed her life and went on to achieve great success. 2007.
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Canada (romans)Personnes handicapées (biographies), Sciences et médecine (biographies), Familles (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Déficiences
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Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that perhaps 300 people around the world also live with…
it. Walker turned twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Expanded from Brown's Globe and Mail series about Walker, he sets out to discover his son. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.
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In 1976, Robert Murphy first learns that he has a spinal tumour; he now is paralyzed from the neck down.…
He relates his medical treatment and suffering, but also examines the role of the disabled in society. He draws from history, literature, sociology, and psychology as a basis for his views and his means of coping. 2001, c1987.
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Twenty-one-year old Terry, who lost a leg to cancer, ran part way across Canada to raise money for cancer research, stopping only when he again became ill. 1981.
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Profiles of twenty individuals who prevailed over various learning differences (LD), such as dyslexia and attention-deficit disorder. Each narrative account…
describes a particular LD, the obstacles it presented, and efforts to overcome its limitations. Grades 5-8. c1997.
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Nicole went through surgery to remove a malignant tumour on her spine, then radiotherapy, a brain haemorrhage, blindness, loss of…
movement, chemotherapy, more chemotherapy, loss of hearing, more radiotherapy, and more surgery. Nicole also has raised thousands of pounds for charity, passed GCSE English after just 6 months' study, gone abseiling, visited New York, had meetings with royalty and government ministers, been the subject of a BBC TV documentary, won numerous national and local awards, and worked for the Teenage Cancer Trust. "Talk to the Hand" is a continuation of Nicole's very full life story, and includes her tips for overcoming setbacks and crises. 2010.
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Presents interviews with handicapped or physically "different" people. They tell of their experiences in childhood, school, social and work life,…
religious faith, and what they would like to share with society. 1984.
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At the age of thirty-four, Gerald Shea discovered that he had been partially deaf since childhood, yet somehow managed to…
navigate his way through Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and to establish an international legal career. Shea had compensated for his deafness through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels. His experience gives fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing and of oral education, and the longing for full communication that unites us all. 2013.
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Hansen, a paraplegic since 1973, tells of the events that led to his incredible 25,000 mile wheelchair journey around the…
world. He describes the hardships and accomplishments of the trip that raised millions of dollars and public awareness for the physically disabled. Bestseller 1987.
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Arts et divertissement, Biographies, Beaux-arts (biographies), Personnes handicapées (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Déficiences
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Choreographer and dancer Agnes de Mille talks about her recovery from a massive cerebral hemorrhage which left her temporarily blind, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. 1981.
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The author's quest to find her sister Catherine, a schizophrenic, in Catherine's home, in her last hospital room, her paintings,…
her letters, her clothes. But in facing the truths about Catherine's life and death, she asks hard questions about sanity, family responsibility, love, and about what it means to say that a life is - or is not - worth living. 2006.
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Biographies, Personnes handicapées (biographies), Nutrition, Médecine
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The dramatic story of a doctor's extraordinary recovery from cancer. Through a chance encounter, he took up a strict macrobiotic diet prescribed in eastern medicine. 1982.
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Stephen Miller is one of Britain's most successful athletes. Record-breaking Stephen, who has Cerebral Palsy, has won three Paralympic gold…
medals, plus dozens of other international accolades in the club and discus events, and will endeavour to win more at Beijing 2008 and London 2012. A writer and poet, Stephen's inspirational autobiography tells of his struggles and triumphs. Strong language. 2008.
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Christy Brown was born with cerebral palsy, but inside the baby lay the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a…
writer who one day would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is his story: how he fought to learn to read, write, paint and finally type with the toe of his left foot. That was how he wrote his bestseller "Down all the days". 2003.
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Combining ethnology and memoir, describes the issues surrounding childbirth and motherhood for disabled women. The author, a paraplegic, tells about…
her own hunt for medical advice before getting pregnant - and then about the normal births of her two children - before widening the conversation to other disabled women and sympathetic members of the medical community. Includes strong language. 2010.
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The author tells of growing up deaf after a childhood illness and dreaming first of being a dancer and then…
of being a beauty pageant winner. Crowned Miss America in 1995, Whitestone became the first victor with a disability. She tells of her belief that she is following God's plan and describes the five guiding principles that helped her find success. 1997.