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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Choosing a Wheelchair System written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Misa Kayama
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199970823
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT written by Misa Kayama and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the concept of disability is starting to take root in the Japanese school system, and what the implications are for parents, teachers, policy makers, and other stakeholders.
Author : Gary Presley
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297523
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Seven Wheelchairs written by Gary Presley and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1959, seventeen-year-old Gary Presley was standing in line, wearing his favorite cowboy boots and waiting for his final inoculation of Salk vaccine. Seven days later, a bad headache caused him to skip basketball practice, tell his dad that he was too ill to feed the calves, and walk from barn to bed with shaky, dizzying steps. He never walked again. By the next day, burning with the fever of polio, he was fastened into the claustrophobic cocoon of the iron lung that would be his home for the next three months. Set among the hardscrabble world of the Missouri Ozarks, sizzling with sarcasm and acerbic wit, his memoir tells the story of his journey from the iron lung to life in a wheelchair. Presley is no wheelchair hero, no inspiring figure preaching patience and gratitude. An army brat turned farm kid, newly arrived in a conservative rural community, he was immobilized before he could take the next step toward adulthood. Prevented, literally, from taking that next step, he became cranky and crabby, anxious and alienated, a rolling responsibility crippled not just by polio but by anger and depression, “a crip all over, starting with the brain.” Slowly, however, despite the limitations of navigating in a world before the Americans with Disabilities Act, he builds an independent life. Now, almost fifty years later, having worn out wheelchair after wheelchair, survived post-polio syndrome, and married the woman of his dreams, Gary has redefined himself as Gimp, more ready to act out than to speak up, ironic, perceptive, still cranky and intolerant but more accepting, more able to find joy in his family and his newfound religion. Despite the fact that he detests pity, can spot condescension from miles away, and refuses to play the role of noble victim, he writes in a way that elicits sympathy and understanding and laughter. By giving his readers the unromantic truth about life in a wheelchair, he escapes stereotypes about people with disabilities and moves toward a place where every individual is irreplaceable.
Author : Lisa Burnette
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409274845
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Learning to Walk written by Lisa Burnette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 12, 2000 Lisa Burnette entered the Royal London Hospital, suffering from meningococcal septicaemia - a life-threatening infection. After the removal of her legs, nine operations and five months in hospital Lisa began a gruelling recovery process. Moving back to her native Australia, Lisa had to leave behind the carefree lifestyle of her early twenties and begin a new life; life as an amputee. It was to be the start of a powerful journey for Lisa. Of the strenuous physical challenges to recovery mapped against the inevitable emotional hurdles. It has been a journey with numerous layers, a journey she continues to this day and a journey that Lisa now makes, step by step.
Author : Miranda Yeend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Travels with My Wheelchair written by Miranda Yeend and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel diary of a young woman crippled by a rare, incurable and progressive disease, who went on a solo backpacking tour of Europe and America in a wheelchair. Her cheerful account of her adventures describes the bad as well as the good experiences she encountered and encourages everyone, disabled or not, to follow her example.
Author : Lyndsay Doyle
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525578847
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Strong and Free written by Lyndsay Doyle and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescent girls are dropping out of sports at an alarming rate, despite having more opportunities than ever before. More than that, mainstream media coverage of women’s sports has declined over the last twenty years, and currently accounts for less than 5 percent of the total. Is it possible that there’s a connection between these dispiriting statistics? Is it possible that young girls would have a better chance of staying in sports if they could actually see the older equivalent of themselves more often? With Strong and Free, Lyndsay Doyle believes we have the power to change their lifestyle trajectories through photographs. Here is inspiration for Canadian female athletes, coaches, and officials in one collection, assembled in the hopes of expanding media coverage of female sports and encouraging young girls to enroll and stay involved. These photographs capture sporting women in all walks of life—all ages, all body types, from beginners to Olympians. These women share common traits that often transcend sports: determination, perseverance, dedication, patience, and responsibility for showing young girls how sport can benefit them. Strong and Free gives these incredible role models for young girls a powerful voice. Our girls are watching us. Our nieces, cousins, sisters, neighbours, daughters. If we don’t show them what they’re capable of, who will?
Author : Jill Andrews
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 177258309X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Body Stories written by Jill Andrews and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive, and complex telling of our understanding, perception, and experience of and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but image suggests a static fixed body, unmitigated through our social interactions and varying times and spaces. This book is not a "how-to" guide for fat confidence. It's not a compendium of fat suffering. It's simply a collection of narratives about what it's like to survive in a weight-hating world. It resists the ways that marginalized bodies are being written and researched and put into other people's ideas about our existence. The stories in this book are celebratory and are painful. They look at intersections of race and queerness; they destabilize womanhood by presenting a range of possible female embodiments. They explore issues of disability and madness. The full range of possibilities that are collected here give a picture of what it means to live in a society with strong and powerful messages about size, about normalcy, about what a moral and healthy life and body look like. This book is a snapshot of its place and time, but these stories remind us that we're here to stay. The body stories will change but we will keep owning our own narratives. While story, especially written by women, is often seen as outside the academic canon, these stories, these creative offerings, are theory, are research, and are activism. They are nothing less than the blueprint for liberation. Writing about fat and about bodies outside of medicalized narratives, without ignoring the impact of race, sexuality, class, ability, gender, fashion, appearance, and beyond, is radical and rigorous. It is impossible to think about the future without wishing for liberation. Liberation can come in many forms. It can mean an awareness, the ability to confront. The stories in this book display the ways that liberation isn't a finish line or a thing we can complete—rather it is a million small actio
Author : Earl Rubington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131734880X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Deviance written by Earl Rubington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpretations, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspective helps students understand both social process in general and the sociology of deviance in particular.
Author : Jim Hardy
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098074858
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)
Download or read book This is How I Roll written by Jim Hardy and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The college years are the prime of most young peopleaEUR(tm)s lives. During this time, people experience new adventures, new friends, and a multitude of other exciting things. But what happens when tragedy strikes? For Jim Hardy, this was the case. One moment, Jim was living his life the way he wanted, and the next, he was navigating his way to a aEURoenew normalaEUR by means of a wheelchair.In this autobiography, Hardy details the hardships he endured on his road to recovery. This is not a story about a tragic accident however. This Is How I Roll tells the story of how Jim used his accident to push himself even harder to become successful in life. Through the stories detailed in his book, the reader comes to realize that a wheelchair is just another part of life, and with determination, it does not have to hold anyone back.This book is meant to be read by all: every person trying to find hope in the midst of their own unique challenges, the parent terrified of what the future might hold for their child in a world that can be so cruel at times, and the kid wanting to understand just what life is like for his friend from school that rolls instead of walks. This is a story of success and triumph in the midst of challenges, and the reader looking for some form of inspiration should consider taking the time to read This Is How I Roll. It just might provide the spark needed in order for that someone to pursue their own dreams.
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 924007452X
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Wheelchair provision guidelines written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Wheelchair provision guidelines aim to support improved accessto appropriate wheelchairs, for all those in need, including children, older persons, people with mobility disabilities, and those with chronic health conditions. They are relevant for all countries and apply to all wheelchair users and types of wheelchairs. They emphasize that the best outcomes in wheelchair access occur when wheelchair users have the benefit of an individual process of assessment, fitting, training and follow up, provided by trained personnel. Their purpose is to ensure that wheelchair users have timely access through wheelchair services that are people-centred and responsive to their needs. Target audiences are those with a role in planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of wheelchair provision. This includes policy-makers, wheelchair service personnel, and wheelchair user representative organizations.
Author : Edelle Field-Fote
Publisher : F.A. Davis
ISBN 13 : 0803623194
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation written by Edelle Field-Fote and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s leading authorities in spinal cord injury, and a participant in the Human Brain Project brings you an evidenced-based guide to the state-of-the-art in spinal cord rehabilitation. She has assembled an expert team of clinicians, each with expertise in the content areas they address. Their work encompasses all of the new scientific knowledge and technological advances practitioners need to know to determine the most effective rehabilitation interventions for each patient and to attain maximum restoration of function in individuals with SCI.
Author : Tanya Ebert
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557537134
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Mystical Puzzle written by Tanya Ebert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 9/11/2008, Tanya Ebert arrived in Sedona, Arizona, completely shattered and ready to give up on life. Upon returning home, and falling asleep, she was startled when she awakened. The person who awoke, was not Tanya. The eternal bliss she felt was nothing she had ever experienced before. Through a journey of self discovery, it was indeed revealed, the person who stepped out of bed, was without a doubt, not the same person who went to bed. She frantically looked all over her home for ""Tanya"" and could not find her. Tanya embarked on a magical journey looking for the missing pieces of the puzzle; and to find out who or what she really was. Trying to explain it to those around her seemed impossible when she had no idea what was happening herself. Join her on an unexpected, yet challenging, extraordinary, instantaneous awakening, of a world she never knew existed. She was not looking for it. It found her! If it happened to her ....... Visit Tanya's website, www.mysticalpuzzle.com, or order it here.
Author : Carol Morgan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595315402
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book My Friends Call Me Carol written by Carol Morgan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anita Jones Thomas
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506305695
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Culture and Identity written by Anita Jones Thomas and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Identity by Anita Jones Thomas and Sara E. Schwarzbaum engages students with autobiographical stories that show the intersections of culture as part of identity formation. The easy-to-read stories centered on such themes as race, ethnicity, gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, and disability tell the real-life struggles with identity development, life events, family relationships, and family history. The Third Edition includes an expanded framework model that encompasses racial socialization, oppression, and resilience. New discussions of timely topics include race and gender intersectionality, microaggressions, enculturation, cultural homelessness, risk of journey, spirituality and wellness, and APA guidelines for working with transgendered individuals.
Author : Hillary L. PhD McBride
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 149343389X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book The Wisdom of Your Body written by Hillary L. PhD McBride and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body. Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of your body or like it isn't good enough. Maybe your body is riddled with stress, pain, or the effects of trauma. Maybe you think of your body as an accessory to what you believe you really are--your mind. Maybe your experiences with racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, or sizeism have made you believe your body isn't the right kind of body. Whatever the reason, many of us don't feel at home in our bodies. But being disconnected from ourselves as bodies means being disconnected from truly living and from the interconnection that weaves us all together. Psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explores the broken and unhealthy ideas we have inherited about our body. Embodiment is the way we are in the world, and our embodiment is heavily influenced by who we have been allowed to be. McBride shows that many of us feel disembodied due to colonization, racism, sexism, and patriarchy--destructive systems that rank certain bodies as less valuable, beautiful, or human than others. Embracing our embodiment can liberate us from these systems. As we come to understand the world around us and the stories we've been told, we see that our perspective of reality often limits how we see and experience ourselves, each other, and what we believe is Sacred. Instead of the body being a problem to overcome, our bodies can be the very place where we feel most alive, the seat of our spirituality and our wisdom. The Wisdom of Your Body offers a compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied living. Weaving together illuminating research, stories from her work as a therapist, and deeply personal narratives of healing from a life-threatening eating disorder, a near-fatal car accident, and chronic pain, McBride invites us to reclaim the wisdom of the body and to experience the wholeness that has been there all along. End-of-chapter questions and practices are included.
Author : Catherine Rackley
Publisher : Resource Publications (CA)
ISBN 13 : 1532690584
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Tear-Watered Blooms written by Catherine Rackley and published by Resource Publications (CA). This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one likes to suffer. It hurts. We all suffer, though, in one form or another, at some time or another. What is God's heart towards his children as they suffer? Does God care like a loving earthly father would for his suffering children? If God loves his children, why would he allow them to go through pain in the first place? These questions are all too common--the very questions Catherine Rackley pleaded before God when she was pummeled repeatedly by multiple hardships, all starting with a cancer diagnosis at the age of twenty-five. "Is God really good?" "Does he love me?" "Is he hearing my prayers?" The hardships did not erase, but some answers did come. You are invited to walk through this vulnerable journey with Catherine where she wrestles with blood, sweat, and tears. . . . Her hope is that you will find those secret places where God led her.
Author : Herb Tabak
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595378145
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book No Whining written by Herb Tabak and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Whining is one man's gut-wrenching yet humorous account of his eight-week journey through Craig Hospital's Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) rehabilitation program. Paralyzed from the waist down, author Herb Tabak credits Craig's 'no nonsense" rehabilitation philosophy as a major factor in the progress he has made to date towards recovery. Tabak relates the range of adventures he experienced while an SCI patient at Craig Hospital's world-renowned spinal cord injury rehab program in plain, easy to understand language. In pointing out the reasons that make Craig Hospital unique, No Whining covers a diverse spectrum of topics, including: The Reality of Spinal Cord Injury The Craig Philosophy Physical Therapy Occupational Therapy Therapeutic Recreation Facing the Real World Craig Research Craig Graduates' Stories Over 30 Photos/Illustrations No Whining is an inspirational resource for anyone with an interest in Spinal Cord Injuries.
