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By Richard Leonard, Germain Duclos. 2013
Malgré les progrès réalisés pour favoriser l'insertion sociale de ces élèves et la diminution substantielle des classes dites spécialisées ,…
plusieurs défis subsistent afin d'assurer l'inclusion du plus grand nombre d'élèves dans les écoles québécoises. En effet, les changements structurels et pédagogiques nécessaires s'annoncent difficiles dans un contexte contradictoire où l'on semble prôner l'inclusion tout en exigeant la même réussite scolaire traditionnelle pour tous les enfants. Les auteurs s'attardent notamment à la façon de contourner les obstacles des apprenants et aux ressources pouvant être mobilisées pour diminuer les exclusions et permettre aux enfants handicapés ou en difficulté d'apprendre et de s'épanouir davantage. 2013.By Barry Neil Kaufman, Luc Bernard Lalanne, Marie-Thérèse Kerzoncuf-Kolakowski. 1985
"Votre fils est autistique. C'est irrécupérable!" Barry et Suzi décident de percer, seuls, sans aucune aide professionnelle, le mur de…
cette forteresse qui coupe leur fils du monde. 1985. Titre uniforme: Son rise.By Ann Patchett. 2005
Author reminisces about her long-term friendship with Lucy Grealy, whom she met in college at Sarah Lawrence and who wrote…
"Autobiography of a Face", describing her battle with facial cancer. Patchett describes their relationship until Grealy's 2002 death from a heroin overdose. 2004.By Paul Perry, Melvin Morse. 1993
Millions of people throughout the world have had a near-death experience. The authors present a wealth of evidence from people…
who have returned from death after being 'transformed by the light'. They show how the lives of people who return from the brink of death are usually changed for the better - spiritually and physically - for the rest of their lives. The authors suggest that these extraordinary revelations may alter your view on death and dying. 1993.By Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, Jean Vanier, Laurent De Cherisey, Vivianne Perret. 2012
"Philippe Pozzo di Borgo dont le livre Le second souffle inspira le scénario du film Intouchables, Jean Vanier, fondateur des…
communautés de L'Arche pour une vie partagée avec des personnes en situation de handicap mental, et Laurent de Cherisey, directeur général de l'association Simon de Cyrène, communauté de vie partagée entre personnes cérébro-lésées (traumatismes crâniens, AVC...) et valides, témoignent de leur bouleversante expérience et nous interpellent : Tous ceux qui souffrent d'une fragilité, d'un handicap quel qu'il soit, ne sont pas uniquement à accueillir au sein de notre société. À rebours de toutes nos représentations ordinaires, ils sont eux-mêmes des acteurs essentiels à notre vie ensemble. Il ne s'agit pas là de leur seule dignité, mais de celle de chacun d'entre nous. " -- 4e de couv.The founder of the Famous People Players, a professional theatre company comprising people who are developmentally handicapped, recounts their struggle…
to find a permanent home for the troupe. She tells of the successes and failures of her efforts in the political and corporate world, as well as the support of people such as Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, and Phil Collins. 1996.Flink, the leader of Eye to Eye--a national mentoring program for students with learning and attention issues--enlarges our understanding of…
the learning process and offers innovative strategies for parenting, teaching, and supporting the 20 percent of students with learning disabilities. A fighter who has helped thousands of children adapt to their specific learning issues, Flink understands the needs and experiences of these children firsthand. He, too, has dyslexia and ADHD. Focusing on how to arm students who think and learn differently with essential skills, including meta-cognition and self-advocacy, Flink offers real, hard advice, providing the tools to address specific problems they face--from building self-esteem and reconstructing the learning environment to getting proper diagnoses and discovering their inner gifts. With his easy, hands-on "Step-by-Step Launchpad to Empowerment," parents can take immediate steps to improve their children's lives. 2014.By Kathleen Krull. 1999
Accounts of twelve visionaries--people who predict the future--presented in chronological order from the oracles of ancient Greece to twentieth-century figures.…
Covers the sibyls of Rome, Mayan astrologers, Nostradamus, Hildegard of Bingen, Leonardo da Vinci, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Nicholas Black Elk, Jeane Dixon, Edgar Cayce, and Marshall McLuhan. Grades 5-8. 1999.By Martin Gardner. 1986
A collection of writings published prior to the sinking of the "Titanic", which are purported to be proof of paranormal…
powers of precognition. The author, a sceptic to ESP, disagrees with these assumptions. c1986.By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. 1998
The author traces the events that shaped her life intellectually and spiritually - events which led her to explain the…
ultimate truth that death does not exist but is a transformation. From her work in war-ravaged Poland to her pioneering counselling of the terminally ill, her seminars and discussions with people who have been revived after death, we learn how each experience provided her with a new piece of the puzzle. 1998.By Aleister Crowley, Victor B Neuburg, Mary Desti. 1998
This text is the record of Aleister Crowley's exploration of the 30 Aethyrs of the Enochian system of magick developed…
by the Elizabethan magicians Dr John Dee and Edward Kelly. Crowley obtained these visions in Mexico in 1900, and in Algeria in 1909. They are the source of many key spiritual doctrines of Thelema. They give an account of the transcendence of the Ego by crossing the Abyss, and the attainment of the grade of Master of the Temple. 1998. Uniform title: Equinox (New York, N.Y.)By Gabriel Ronay. 1972
By Tom Harpur. 1994
Religious writer Harpur investigates the roots of spiritual healing and the work and ideas of modern healers. He also describes…
scientific studies which demonstrate the power of spiritual healing, and how the phenomenon is gaining credibility even among physicians and other sceptics. 1994.By Elizabeth Fenwick, Peter Fenwick. 1996
The authors had access to over 300 first-hand accounts of near-death experiences. Scientist and neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick and his…
wife Elizabeth provide an informed analysis of the near-death experience, indicating the tantalising and inexplicable core at the heart of this phenomenon. 1996.By John Man. 1986
The harrowing experiences of a woman who endured almost lethal psychological and physical abuse during her married life, homesteading in…
the Amazon jungle. Despite being blind and deaf, and separated from civilization, she survived for three months on her own after her husband and daughter died of fever. 1986.By Jess Stearn. 1973
Delves into the psychic lives of novelist Taylor Caldwell who, though skeptical about reincarnation, agreed to undergo hypnosis "in the…
interest of setting the theory of reincarnation to rest." Once in a trance she lapsed into memories of other lives and places. 1973.By John Sutton, Derek Acorah. 1999
Renowned psychic Derek Acorah reveals that we all have psychic potential and shows us how we can tap into and…
develop our psychic ability. You will learn how to: build your psychic awareness through meditation; develop telepathy skills and divination techniques; use the spirit world for guidance and healing; identify paranormal experiences. 1999.By Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison. 2003
Renowned psychic and spiritual teacher Sylvia Browne reveals the truth about the power of psychic energy to change lives and…
to communicate with the other side, and shows how anyone can tap into its energy. 2003.By Martin Gardner. 1988
Columns, mostly from the Skeptical Inquirer, critique pseudoscience and other paranormal trends. Topics include channeling, psychic surgery, prime-time preachers, the…
third eye, and Shirley MacLaine's fascination with reincarnation. Garner's essays are part exposé and part entertainment. 1991, c1988.By Paul K Longmore, Lauri Umansky. 2001
Fourteen essays examine disability in the social context of American history. Several discuss attitudes towards deafness and blindness specifically, including…
Kim Nielsen's "Helen Keller and the politics of civic fitness." The collection ends with Richard K. Scotch's historical overview of "American disability policy in the twentieth century". c2001.