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The blind doctor: the Jacob Bolotin story : a biography
By Rosalind Perlman. 2007
Biography of Chicago-born Jacob Bolotin (1888-1924), blind from birth. The author, whose husband was related to Bolotin, discusses Bolotin's determination…
to become a physician and describes the hard-won training that enabled him to practice medicine as a respected heart and lung specialist. Some strong language. 2007Midstream: my later life
By Helen Keller. 1929
Helen Keller (1880-1968) continues her autobiography following The Story of My Life (BR 14704). Describes her life after her sophomore…
year at Radcliffe College, including her writing, lecturing, acting, and work on behalf of blind people. Discusses her friendships with Mark Twain, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Carnegies. 1929My Maggie
By Richard King. 2010
Chicago sportscaster's tribute to Maggie, his wife of thirty-two years. He recalls her fears, courage, and ultimate zest for living…
while battling childhood hearing loss, progressive blindness, melanoma, breast cancer, and the ovarian cancer that killed her at age fifty-three. 2007Joni: an unforgettable story
By Joni Eareckson Tada, Joe Musser. 2001
Tada, paralyzed from the neck down by a diving accident in 1967, shares her struggle--what she calls an "incredible adventure"--to…
adjust to her disability. Describes overcoming, through faith in God, her physical and emotional challenges and even becoming a skillful artist by using her mouth to guide her pen. 1976Freedom (A Kernel Book Ser.)
By Marc Maurer. 2006
Eight individuals share their experiences with blindness. In the title memoir, Maurer reflects that "blindness must be confronted in unconventional…
ways if progress in surmounting its disadvantages is to be made." In "Mom, What Does Blind Mean?" Pauletta Feldman answers her nonsighted son's questions. 2006She touched the world: Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind pioneer
By Sally Hobart Alexander. 2008
Biography of Laura Bridgman (1829-1889), the first deaf-blind child to receive a formal education--decades before Helen Keller. Discusses the causes…
of Laura's deaf-blindness at age two; her sponsorship at Perkins Institution; and her success at learning manual sign language. For grades 4-7. 2008Nickie's nook: sharing the journey
By Nickie Coby. 2007
Selected writings from the online journal of blind college student and aspiring social worker Coby, who has Complex Regional Pain…
Syndrome. Discusses her guide dog Julio, her Christianity, and the differences between blindness and chronic illness. For senior high and older readers. 2007Somewhere 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. 2008Hands of my father: a hearing boy, his deaf parents, and the language of love
By Myron Uhlberg. 2009
Children's book author Uhlberg describes his childhood in 1930s and 1940s Brooklyn with two deaf parents and a hearing but…
epileptic younger brother. He recounts dealing with his sometimes uncomfortable role as an interpreter and with the looks of curiosity and shock from strangers. Some strong language. 2008High point of persistence: the Miriam Richards story
By Damara Goff Paris. 2007
Biography of deaf climber Miriam Richards, who set a goal to reach the highest elevation in each of the fifty…
states and seven continents. Chronicles her childhood, Gallaudet University years, and memorable summits. Discusses challenges she faced, including a fall from Mount Hood and being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. 2007Helen'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. 2008Moondog, 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. 2009Biography of Dorothy Harrison Eustis (1886-1946), founder of the Seeing Eye, the first guide-dog school in America. Chronicles her childhood…
in upper-class Philadelphia, two marriages, and vacations in Switzerland, where she was introduced to dogs assisting blinded German veterans. Describes the 1929 establishment of Eustis's school in New Jersey. 2010Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays
By John Clark. 2023
A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience and the untapped potential of a new tactile language. Born Deaf…
into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life based on physical connection. In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic developments within the DeafBlind community and challenges the limitations of sighted and hearing norms. In "Against Access," he interrogates the prevailing advocacy for "accessibility" that re-creates a shadow of a hearing-sighted experience, and in "Tactile Art," he describes his relationship to visual art and breathtaking encounters with tactile sculpture. He offers a brief history of the term "DeafBlind," distills societal discrimination against DeafBlind people into "Distantism," sheds light on the riches of online community, and advocates for "Co-Navigation," a new way of exploring the world together without a traditional guide. Touch the Future brims with passion, energy, humor, and imagination as Clark takes us by the hand and welcomes us into the exciting landscape of Protactile communication. A distinct language of taps, signs, and reciprocal contact, Protactile emerged from the inadequacies of ASL—a visual language even when pressed into someone’s hand—with the power to upend centuries of DeafBlind isolation. As warm and witty as he is radical and inspiring, Clark encourages us—disabled and non-disabled alike—to reject stigma and discover the ways we are connected. Touch the Future is a dynamic appeal to rethink the meanings of disability, access, language, and inclusivity, and to reach for a future we can create together.Moments of truth: Robert R. Davila, the story of a deaf leader
By Harry G Lang. 2007
Chronicles the life of the first deaf Hispanic vice president of Gallaudet University, Robert Davila (b. 1932), from his impoverished…
childhood in the California barrio to his 1989 appointment as assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education and 2006 appointment as the interim president of Gallaudet. 2007Orchid of the Bayou: a deaf woman faces blindness
By Cathryn Carroll. 2002
Autobiography of deaf Cajun woman follows her early childhood, attendance at the Louisiana School for the Deaf, and graduation from…
Gallaudet University. Describes the post-childbirth vision problems that led her to research her heritage as an Acadian, the group with the highest rates of Usher syndrome in the world. 2001Longshot: the adventures of a deaf fundamentalist Mormon kid and his journey to the NBA
By Lance Allred. 2009
Allred describes his childhood in a polygamous Mormon community in Montana. Covers his dealing with hearing loss and obsessive-compulsive disorder.…
Discusses maintaining a high GPA and a dedication to basketball in college--despite having an abusive coach--and eventually earning a stint in the NBA. Some strong language. 2009Deadly charm: the story of a deaf serial killer
By McCay Vernon. 2010
A forensic psychologist and a journalist describe the life of Patrick McCullough (1960-2001), the first deaf man to be identified…
as a serial killer. Details the problems McCullough had since childhood that led to rage-fueled murders of three people he knew. Some violence and some strong language. 2010