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Not even wrong: adventures in autism
By Paul Collins. 2004
Memoirist recounts his experiences after his two-year-old son was diagnosed with symptoms of autism, a developmental disorder affecting communication and…
social skills. Intersperses episodes of his family's daily life with anecdotes from his own personal journey to understand the world of autists and the meaning of "normal." Includes resources. 2004Somewhere in heaven: the remarkable love story of Dana and Christopher Reeve
By Christopher P. Andersen. 2008
Portrait of actor Christopher Reeve (1952-2004) and his singer-actress wife Dana (1961-2006) and their deepening bond following a 1995 riding…
accident that caused Chris's quadriplegia. Discusses their advocacy for spinal-cord research, Chris's therapy and unexpected death, and Dana's death from lung cancer seventeen months later at age forty-four. 2008Strong at the broken places: voices of illness, a chorus of hope
By Richard M. Cohen. 2008
Author of Blindsided (RC 57643) relates his interviews with five people who, like himself, are dealing with chronic illness. They…
discuss the experiences that helped them to find control, peace, and grace since their diagnoses of ALS, muscular dystrophy, bipolar disorder, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Crohn's disease. 2008Helen's eyes: a photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's teacher (Photobiographies)
By Marfe Ferguson Delano. 2008
Covers the life of Annie Sullivan (1866-1936), which changed dramatically in 1887 when she met blind and deaf pupil seven-year-old…
Helen Keller. Examines their breakthrough in communication, rise to fame, financial difficulties, and constant mutual respect and devotion. For grades 4-7. 2008To catch an angel: adventures in the world I cannot see
By Robert Russell. 1962
The life and achievements of the author, who was blinded in an accident at the age of five. Describes his…
refusal to acknowledge any essential difference between himself and sighted people and relates his success in earning a PhD, marrying and starting a family, and becoming a college professor. 1962My eyes have a cold nose
By Hector Chevigny. 1946
Los Angeles radio script writer recounts what he calls his "initiation into the blind world" after he lost his sight…
from retinal detachment. Describes failed surgical procedures, his physical and emotional adjustment, and a return to work and society with the help of his guide dog, Wizard. 1946Moondog, the viking of 6th Avenue: the authorized biography
By Robert M. Scotto. 2007
Biography of musician Moondog, Louis Thomas Hardin Jr. (1916-1999), who was blinded at age sixteen. Discusses his rise from being…
a Viking-garbed, homeless street musician in New York City in the 1960s to becoming a Columbia Records pop-music sensation and master composer for European orchestras. 2007The author of The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (RC 57987, BR 15304) uses Anne Sullivan Macy's notes and letters…
to portray her impoverished upbringing, education at the Perkins Institution, and personal relationships, especially with her pupil Helen Keller. 2009Shine on me: the biography of an African American woman, born blind
By D. Dexter Vizinau. 2004
The son of Margaret Vizinau, an African American woman born blind in Arkansas in 1927, describes growing up in San…
Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s. Relates how his single mother, a devout Christian, supported her sons by singing and playing the piano in church. Strong language. 2003Ariel: the restored edition
By Sylvia Plath. 2004
Sylvia Plath's last manuscript before committing suicide in 1963 is restored to her preferred selections and arrangement of poems by…
her daughter Frieda Hughes. Hughes's foreword discusses the confessional voice in this poetry and her parents' complex marriage. 2004Songs of the blind snowbird
By Robert Michael Jacobs. 2003
Jacobs describes his personal journey from early success as a graphics designer, through illness and sudden blindness, to later success…
as a columnist. Currently, the author spends summers in Boston and winters in Key WestRemembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: the invisible art of editing
By Ved Mehta. 1998
Born in India and blind since early childhood, writer Ved Mehta portrays his relationship with William Shawn, editor-in-chief of the…
New Yorker. He begins with their first meeting in 1959, when Mehta was anxious about earning a livelihood. Sequel to Up at Oxford (BR 9455) in his autobiographical series. 1998Too late to die young: nearly true tales from a life
By Harriet McBryde Johnson. 2005
A lawyer specializing in disability issues protests Jerry Lewis's telethon and media heroes like Christopher Reeve. Born with a neuromuscular…
disease, the wheelchair-user relates anecdotes from her life of advocacy including involvement in Charleston, South Carolina, politics. Some strong language. 2005The red letters: my father's enchanted period (Nation Bks.)
By Ved Mehta. 2004
Concluding volume in Continents of Exile series--the blind author's memoirs. Mehta recounts finding forty-year-old love letters that reveal his father's…
passionate love affair in Simla, India, in the 1930s. This discovery changes the author's perceptions of his father and mother, and even of himself. 2004Blind author recounts his life, from his boyhood in a log cabin and struggles for an education to international recognition…
in the field of vocational training for visually impaired persons. Chronicles his establishment in 1949 of the Emil Fries Piano Hospital and Training Center for piano servicing and tuning. 1980Shades of darkness: a Black soldier's journey through Vietnam, blindness, and back
By George E. Brummell. 2006
Memoir of Staff Sergeant George Brummell, who was blinded in Vietnam. Recalls growing up in segregated Federalsburg, Maryland, before joining…
the army at age seventeen. Highlights his rehabilitation, quest for a college degree, and career with the Blinded Veterans Association. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2006Living with polio: the epidemic and its survivors
By Daniel J. Wilson. 2005
History professor and polio survivor relates accounts of polio patients during the mid-twentieth-century epidemics. Chronicles their experiences from diagnosis to…
rehabilitation and recovery--including, in some cases, dealing with post-polio syndrome. Highlights the emotional and physical struggles of living with a disability. 2005Fly like a bumblebee: a blind magician shares his most powerful secrets
By R. W. Klamm. 2004
Magician describes living with congenital optic atrophy disorder. He reveals with wit and humor how his profession helped to build…
his self-confidence. He explains easy tricks that demonstrate the concept "the hand is quicker than the eye." 2004Scattered shadows: a memoir of blindness and vision
By John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi. 2004
The author of Black like me (DB 61703) recounts losing his sight in 1947 from a war injury and unexpectedly…
recovering it ten years later. Describes his religious conversion to Catholicism during his blindness and individual and institutional reactions to his physical impairment. Some strong language. 2004Reflections from a different journey: what adults with disabilities wish all parents knew
By Stanley Klein, John Kemp. 2004
Forty informative essays by successful adult role models who have "lived the disability experience." Individuals with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy,…
vision and hearing loss, autism, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, learning disabilities, and other health conditions share their thoughts on acceptance, parenting, sexuality, and education. 2004