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What My Wheelchair Taught Me

Author : Lisa Dianne Jones
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525553860
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book What My Wheelchair Taught Me written by Lisa Dianne Jones and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Jones made a conscious choice to disregard what fate might have chosen for her, instead embracing and consistently using her free will to the maximum. What My Wheelchair Taught Me is about Lisa Jones, soulmate to others and how she has led her normal life, but it is also about Lisa Jones, the woman with a disability, and how her life has been shaped by disability and the world’s reaction to it. What My Wheelchair Taught Me seeks to change people’s perceptions and beliefs about people with disabilities by showing the impact Jones’ disability has had on her life, and by revealing insights into how people with disabilities are treated and why. We need to see people first for what they can do, not what they cannot do. Her writing shows readers with disabilities the true range of possibilities they have by giving a gentle push to live their own authentic lives, making their own life decisions, and achieving possibilities despite their disability. This change in perception can lead to seeing disability as an inconvenience to be managed, not as an unchangeable life sentence. People with disabilities can experience a rich range of human experiences that our culture doesn’t consider normal or necessary for people, especially women, with disabilities. Even if we have a disability, we can still do whatever we would like or want to do, just maybe not in the same way as everyone else. No one needs to be judged solely or primarily based on the things they are unable to do.

Being Heumann

Author : Judith Heumann
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080701950X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Being Heumann written by Judith Heumann and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction "...an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— Buzzfeed One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. As a young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Francisco as a leader of the Section 504 Sit-In, the longest takeover of a governmental building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy successfully pressured the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled peoples’ rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann’s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.

Yes I Can!

Author : Kendra J. Barrett
Publisher : Magination Press
ISBN 13 : 9781433828690
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Yes I Can! written by Kendra J. Barrett and published by Magination Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Carolyn is in a wheelchair, but she doesn't let that stop her! She can do almost everything the other kids can, even if sometimes she has to do it a little differently"--

Sitting Pretty

Author : Rebekah Taussig
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062936816
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Sitting Pretty written by Rebekah Taussig and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.

DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Author : Misa Kayama
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199970823
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT written by Misa Kayama and published by Oxford University Press. 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.

Adapted Physical Activity Across the Life Span

Author : Carol Leitschuh
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 1718213360
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Adapted Physical Activity Across the Life Span written by Carol Leitschuh and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary approach to delivering quality adapted physical activity for all ages. Addresses how the work of educators and clinical professionals intersects in facilitating physical activity for health and well-being. Follows IDEA and USDHHS guidelines. Instructor ancillaries.

Beginning with Disability

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315453207
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Beginning with Disability written by Lennard J. Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are many introductions to disability and disability studies, most presume an advanced academic knowledge of a range of subjects. Beginning with Disability is the first introductory primer for disaibility studies aimed at first year students in two- and four-year colleges. This volume of essays across disciplines—including education, sociology, communications, psychology, social sciences, and humanities—features accessible, readable, and relatively short chapters that do not require specialized knowledge. Lennard Davis, along with a team of consulting editors, has compiled a number of blogs, vlogs, and other videos to make the materials more relatable and vivid to students. "Subject to Debate" boxes spotlight short pro and con pieces on controversial subjects that can be debated in class or act as prompts for assignments.

I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee!

Author : Kisha Jordan
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467076864
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee! written by Kisha Jordan and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful new book by Pastor Kisha Jordan, titled I Am The Lord That Healeth Thee she provides a riveting account of the events that unfolded as God brought her back from beyond the point of death. Now physically disabled having lost her right leg and a portion of her hip in a violent car accident, Pastor Kisha invites you into the realm of the supernatural. Left to die in the waning hours of Christmas day 1989, God was simply setting the stage for his glory to be revealed. I Am the Lord that Healeth Thee openly displays the life-changing, mind renewing, blessings of the Lord that awaits all of us. If you are eager to move beyond the pains of yesterday into the glorious life that God has destined for you then this book is a must read for you.

I Thought You Had A Bigger Dream

Author : Penny Robichaux-Koontz
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617773875
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book I Thought You Had A Bigger Dream written by Penny Robichaux-Koontz and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the founder of Jacob's House at Thunder Ranch, a private placement children's home, who was diagnosed with polio as a child.

Home Bound

Author : Cass Irvin
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592132200
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Home Bound written by Cass Irvin and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, Cass Irvin tells of the remarkable journey that transformed her from a young girl too timid to ask for help to a community activist and writer who speaks forcefully about the needs of people with disabilities.

Laughing at My Nightmare

Author : Shane Burcaw
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 162672007X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Laughing at My Nightmare written by Shane Burcaw and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With acerbic wit & a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw's YA memoir describes the challenges he faces as a 20-year-old with muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to trying to finding a girlfriend and everything in between"--

Rethinking Rehabilitation

Author : Kathryn McPherson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040072399
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Rehabilitation written by Kathryn McPherson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book informs readers about how leading researchers are rethinking rehabilitation research and practice. It emphasizes discussion on the place of theory in advancing rehabilitation knowledge, unearthing important questions for policy and practice, underpinning research design, and prompting readers to question clinical assumptions. Each author proposes ways of thinking that are informed by theory, philosophy, and/or history as well as empirical research. Rigorous and provocative, it presents chapters that model ways readers might advance their own thinking, learning, practice, and research.

Voices of Practice

Author : Sean Michael Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578868837
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Practice written by Sean Michael Morris and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everyone has had a straight and narrow path into academia. Many higher education teachers, in fact, were professionals before they became part of the university or college where they work; and many keep one foot in both worlds even while they teach. Especially in programs designed to support students in a field of practice (education, nursing, and others), teachers find that being an academic or a scholar is supplementary to being a professional. And yet the demands of scholarship remain a component of their academic work-research, publishing, and the rest.Inspired by scholarly narratives like those from Ruth Behar, bell hooks, Jonathan Kozol, and others, Voices of Practice inspects, interrupts, questions, and reconstructs what it means to be a scholar, using deeply personal reflections, poignant vignettes, and carefully examined timelines of intellectual and professional development. This volume features educators who may not at first call themselves "academics" and who have focused their careers on the practice rather than the publishing of scholarship.

Winning Well

Author : Cara Cocchiarella
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538157942
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Winning Well written by Cara Cocchiarella and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wellness is complex and powerful. And when wellness is maximized in the sports setting, athletes and coaches alike are set up to succeed. In Winning Well: Maximizing Coach and Athlete Wellness, Cara Cocchiarella and Camille Adana provide coaches and coach developers with the means to implement a more inclusive coaching environment through wellness. Each aspect of wellness is defined within the context of sports, provided along with tips for application within the sports setting. Tangible guidelines are supplemented with personal testimonies from a diverse group of athletes and coaches who highlight their experiences with wellness in coaching—or lack thereof. Self-assessments are provided as powerful tools to help coaches evaluate their own wellness, their promotion of athlete wellness, and inclusive practices. The demand for wellness and inclusion in sports is substantial, and Winning Well is the first practical guide to help coaches and coach developers bring wellness to the forefront of their practices. Written for coaches in all sports who work with athletes at any level, this book is an inspiring, timely, and accessible resource for those who want to move towards more effective and impactful coaching.

Wheelchair Wisdom

Author : Linda Noble Topf
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491748052
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Wheelchair Wisdom written by Linda Noble Topf and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • #1 Amazon International Bestseller Award---Self-Help, 2018 • The International Publishers Award (IPPY) Self-Help, 2014 • Award-Winning 'Finalist' in the Self-Help: General Category of the 2018 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest. Topf's personal stories, innovative concepts, meditative suggestions and exercises provide an inspirational book for women, men and families coping with adversity. This self-help guide makes it easier for readers to navigate through thorny, difficult issues we may face and acknowledge a more meaningful way of being that helps lead the way to: • Develop compassion and courage to work within our fears, doubts and self-defeating beliefs • Recognize and claim their self-worth • Restore peace of mind • Celebrate freedom • Experience life with grace and gratitude • Be grateful for each moment as a conscious choice • Explore what is possible regardless of current challenges Wheelchair Wisdom offers illuminating, practical steps that introduce a new version of possibility and gratitude that allows anyone facing adversity to move forward on a path of fulfillment, peace and self-love. The power of positive thinking helps us achieve this unique perspective that transforms the conflict, fear and separation that may dominate our lives. Each moment of our lives can become a time conscious, positive, life-affirming choice. Wheelchair Wisdom shows you how by delivering the extraordinary and practical message. Linda resides outside Philadelphia with her husband and best friend of thirty-nine years, Michael. Linda Noble Topf has had MS since 1981. Her award-winning first book, You Are Not Your Illness, has inspired many thousands of people with illness as well as their families. Linda is a wellness counselor with a Master's Degree in Applied Psychology, a motivational speaker, a monthly columnist for the Huffington Post, an ordained minister and a pioneer and advocate for disability rights.

Mama Zooms

Author :
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mama Zooms written by and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1993 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy's wonderful mama takes him zooming everywhere with her, because her wheelchair is a zooming machine.

Seven Wheelchairs

Author : Gary Presley
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297523
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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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.