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Une épine empourprée (T minuscule)
By Michaël La Chance. 2019
« J'écrivais ceci encore abasourdi par un accident cérébral. Ce témoignage a-t-il un intérêt hors de moi-même ? J'étais trop…
étourdi pour convoquer le regard des autres, mesurer la lecture qu'ils pourraient en faire. La vision trouble, la marche entravée, j'écrivais sur le vif, à la recherche d'une trame symbolique pour réparer ma vie intérieure fracassée par l'accident silencieux. Soudain je regardais les choses comme une énigme, les êtres naturels comme des prodiges. J'étais devenu ma propre énigme, plus précisément, j'entrevoyais mes facultés, pour peu qu'elles me permettaient de respirer et de penser, de parler et de marcher, comme des mécanismes précieux et fragiles. »Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
By Jen Bryant. 2016
An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille—a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet.**Winner of…
a Schneider Family Book Award!** Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet—a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today. Award-winning writer Jen Bryant tells Braille’s inspiring story with a lively and accessible text, filled with the sounds, the smells, and the touch of Louis’s world. Boris Kulikov’s inspired paintings help readers to understand what Louis lost, and what he was determined to gain back through books. An author’s note and additional resources at the end of the book complement the simple story and offer more information for parents and teachers. Praise for Six Dots: "An inspiring look at a child inventor whose drive and intelligence changed to world—for the blind and sighted alike."—Kirkus Reviews"Even in a crowded field, Bryant’s tightly focused work, cast in the fictionalized voice of Braille himself, is particularly distinguished."—Bulletin, starred review"This picture book biography strikes a perfect balance between the seriousness of Braille’s life and the exuberance he projected out into the world." — School Library Journal, starred reviewUnforeseen: the first blind Rhodes scholar : a memoir
By James J. Barnes. 2017
A historian's memoir of becoming the first blind Rhodes Scholar in the mid-1950s. Describes the deterioration of the author's eyesight…
during his first year at Oxford and his determination to press on. Relates his subsequent personal and educational achievments, including a PhD from Harvard and a distinguished forty-four-year teaching career. 2017Revised standards and guidelines of service for Library of Congress network of libraries for the blind and physically handicapped, 2017
By Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies, Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies Staff. 2017
Updated standards address staff, consultants, volunteers, and stakeholders of libraries serving blind and physically handicapped individuals. Offers guidelines for patron…
contact, lending, outreach, and for producing websites and reading materials. Covers budgets, policies and procedures, reports, and research and development. 2017Vets and pets: wounded warriors and the animals that help them heal
By Dava Guerin, Kevin Ferris. 2018
A collection of essays about the bonds that develop between wounded veterans and the animals that help them heal. Includes…
stories of traditional service companion dogs as well as vets who bond with horses, birds of prey, and even pigs. 2017Training your own service dog: step by step guide to an obedient service dog
By Max Matthews. 2017
Covers the basics of selecting and training a service dog. Includes sections on the laws governing service animals, how to…
select a dog, how to get your service dog used to your house rules, and different aspects of obedience and service training. 2017Volver a correr
By Carlos Serván. 2017
Carlos Serván reflects upon his life's trajectory, including becoming blind as a result of a grenade blast as a Peruvian…
police cadet, and his subsequent career as an educator and blind advocate in the United States. Spanish language. 2017Loving Large: A Mother's Rare Disease Memoir
By Patti M. Hall. 2020
In Loving Large, Patti M. Hall confronts gigantism, an ultra-rare, infamous, and stigmatizing disease that threatens her young son’s life…
and future. With wit, candour, and hilarity, she endures the harrowing medical odyssey with her two sons and learns to thrive in the aftermath.We Move Together
By Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, Eduardo Trejos. 2021
A bold and colorful exploration of all the ways that people navigate through the spaces around them and a celebration…
of the relationships we build along the way.We Move Together follows a mixed-ability group of kids as they creatively negotiate everyday barriers and find joy and connection in disability culture and community. A perfect tool for families, schools, and libraries to facilitate conversations about disability, accessibility, social justice and community building. Includes a kid-friendly glossary (for ages 6 – 9).Funny, you don't look autistic: A comedian's guide to life on the spectrum
By Michael McCreary. 2019
Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few…
well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks" different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary got hit with the performance bug not much later. During a difficult time in junior high, he started journaling, eventually turning his pain e into something empowering—and funny. He scored his first stand-up gig at age 14, and hasn't looked back. This unique and hilarious #OwnVoices memoir breaks down what it's like to live with autism for readers on and off the spectrum. Candid scenes from McCreary's life are broken up with funny visuals and factual asides. Funny, You Don't Look Autistic is an invaluable and compelling read for young readers with ASD looking for voices to relate to, as well as for readers hoping to broaden their understanding of ASDDisability visibility (adapted for young adults): First-person stories for today
By Alice Wong. 2021
Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for…
young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences." — Chicago Tribune , "Best books published in summer 2020" (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday edition). The eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility , all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts in this collection, adapted for audio, ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be &“fixed,&” but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential listening for all. This audiobook contains unabridged selections from Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults). Audiobook Table of Contents: If You Can&’t Fast, Give by Maysoon Zayid There&’s a Mathematical Equation That Proves I&’m Ugly—or So I Learned in My Seventh-Grade Art Class by Ariel Henley When You Are Waiting to Be Healed by June Eric-Udorie The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison by Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson We Can&’t Go Back by Ricardo T. Thornton Sr. Guide Dogs Don&’t Lead Blind People. We Wander as One. by Haben Girma Canfei to Canji: The Freedom of Being Loud by Sandy Ho Nurturing Black Disabled Joy by Keah Brown Selma Blair Became a Disabled Icon Overnight by Zipporah Arielle So. Not. Broken. by Alice Sheppard Incontinence Is a Public Health Issue—and We Need to Talk About It by Mari Ramsawakh Falling/Burning: Being a Bipolar Creator by Shoshana Kessock Gaining Power Through Communication Access by Lateef McLeod The Fearless Benjamin Lay: Activist, Abolitionist, Dwarf Person by Eugene Grant On the Ancestral Plane: Crip Hand-Me-Downs and the Legacy of Our Movements by Stacey Milbern The Beauty of Spaces Created for and by Disabled People by s.e. smithBreakthrough: How one teen innovator is changing the world
By Matthew Lysiak, Jack Andraka. 2015
Featured in the 2018 movie Science Fair! A National Science Teachers Association Best STEM Book of 2017 In this acclaimed…
memoir, teen innovator and scientist Jack Andraka tells the story behind his revolutionary discovery. When a dear family friend passed away from pancreatic cancer, Jack was inspired to create a better method of early detection. At the age of fifteen, he garnered international attention for his breakthrough: a four-cent strip of paper capable of detecting pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers four hundred times more effectively than the previous standard. Jack's story is not just a story of dizzying international success; it's a story of overcoming depression and homophobic bullying and finding the resilience to persevere and come out. His account inspires young people, who he argues are the most innovative, to fight for the right to be taken seriously and to pursue our own dreams. Do-it-yourself science experiments are included in each chapter, making Breakthrough perfect for STEM curriculum. But above all, Jack's memoir empowers his generation with the knowledge that we can each change the world if we only have the courage to tryBeing seen: One deafblind woman's fight to end ableism
By Elsa Sjunneson. 2021
A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled…
community and everyone else. As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they're whispering behind her back. And she certainly knows how wrong our one-size-fits-all definitions of disability can be. As a media studies professor, she's also seen the full range of blind and deaf portrayals on film, and here she deconstructs their impact, following common tropes through horror, romance, and everything in between. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history of the deafblind experience, Being Seen explores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact, and the damage it does to us allClimbing back
By Mark Wellman, John Flinn. 1992
With his mountaineering journalist cowriter, Wellman recounts his comeback after a fall during a climb in the Sierra Nevada left…
him paraplegic at twenty-two. He devised a way to continue climbing mountains--including El Capitan and Half Dome--and also became a Yosemite Park ranger and member of the US Disabled Ski Team. 1992Born just right (Jeter Publishing)
By Jordan Reeves, Jen Lee Reeves. 2019
Cofounder of the nonprofit Born Just Right, young Jordan mentors other kids with limb differences. She recounts her journey growing…
up without the bottom half of her left arm and discusses the inspiration for her invention of Project Unicorn, a prosthetic that shoots biodegradable glitter. For grades 4-7. 2019Through the tunnel: becoming deafblind
By Angie C. Orlando. 2018
Using a mix of poetry and prose, the author describes her experiences with multiple disabilities that became gradually apparent over…
time. Recounts her childhood, how her interactions with others shifted over time, her abusive marriage, and her brother's suicide. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2018Flying blind: one man's journey out of darkness
By Lou Briganti. 2018
Traveling with service animals: by air, road, rail, and ship across North America
By Henry Kisor. 2019
A newspaper columnist and a travel writer, both seasoned travelers with service dogs, give advice for how best to navigate…
the challenges of such travel. They give general guidance as well as specific regulations and service animal policies on planes, trains, cruise ships, and more. 2019The blind truth: an inside "look" at living and loving life while visually impaired
By Woody Livingston. 2020
A collection of essays in which the author discusses life with Usher syndrome, which caused retinitis pigmentosa and eventual vision…
and hearing loss. He recounts how, with the help of a cane, cochlear implants, and faith in God, he has taken charge of his own life. 2020Walk in my paws: an anthology : working service dogs
By R. Rice. 2019
A collection of stories from those who work with service dogs. Includes contributions from service dog handlers, trainers, instructors, and…
puppy raisers. They share the challenges they face, and the way their work with service dogs has enriched their lives. 2019