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Book Synopsis Wheelchair Wisdom by : Linda Noble Topf
Download or read book Wheelchair Wisdom written by Linda Noble Topf and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three years after Linda Noble Topf was diagnosed with MS, she had only a minimal understanding of the ways MS would affect her body, brain, and ability to function. After experiencing the gamut of emotions that took her from the darkness of grief to the light of hope, Topf made a conscious choice not to wallow in misery but instead to embrace life. In her self-help guidebook, Topf shatters notions about life in a wheelchair and offers practical, inspirational tools for living a life full of possibilities, regardless of the challenges one faces. ... 'Wheelchair Wisdom' offers illuminating steps that introduce a new vision of possibility and gratitude that allows anyone facing adversity to move forward on a path of fulfillment, peace, and self-love."--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis Wheelchair Wisdom by : Linda Noble Topf
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.
Book Synopsis Wisdom from a Wheelchair by : Olivia Espinosa
Download or read book Wisdom from a Wheelchair written by Olivia Espinosa and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Wisdom from a Wheelchair has been disabled since she was twelve years old. While going through her own personal struggles and the progression of her disability, Olivia Espinosa found her gift from God: creating daily inspirational messages that have changed her life and healed her spirit. It is her hope that this book will bring you inspiration, faith, strength, and comfort. It will warm your heart when you're feeling too far from God. You will find encouragement and support to overcome your own life's struggles. You too can move mountains. About the Author Olivia Espinosa was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy called Friedreich's ataxia at the age of twelve. Through these hardships and struggles that have changed her life, she has found the real meaning of her faith and the journey God had in store for her. She truly feels as if He has blessed her life forever.
Book Synopsis The Wisdom of the Body by : John M. Shackleford
Download or read book The Wisdom of the Body written by John M. Shackleford and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything we learn comes to us through the senses. We interpret the books we read, the speeches and sermons we have heard, and so on. Over the years, we put these things together along with our personal experiences of daily living. Somehow, we integrate all of this sensory input and arrive at an outlook on life. Along the way we may decide whether or not our time here on earth has any meaning. In interpreting the facts of life, many of us tend to do so piecemeal, filtering out certain memories, perhaps even pleasurable ones, if they seem unimportant. However, the more one tries to recall childhood memories, the more they come to the forefront. In The Wisdom of the Body, John M. Shackleford reflects upon his childhood experiences and thoughtfully relates them to his sixty years in a wheelchair. He hopes that his determination to overcome the many difficulties of a paralyzed man—while at the same time pursuing a professional career—will inspire others to master their personal obstacles and become useful members of the human family.
Download or read book Just Human written by Arielle Silverman and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
Book Synopsis Disability Visibility by : Alice Wong
Download or read book Disability Visibility written by Alice Wong and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.
Book Synopsis Accessible America by : Bess Williamson
Download or read book Accessible America written by Bess Williamson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of design that is often overlooked—until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life. In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The US became the first country to enact federal accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a wholesale rethinking of our built environment. This progression wasn’t straightforward or easy. Early legislation and design efforts were often haphazard or poorly implemented, with decidedly mixed results. Political resistance to accommodating the needs of people with disabilities was strong; so, too, was resistance among architectural and industrial designers, for whom accessible design wasn’t “real” design. Bess Williamson provides an extraordinary look at everyday design, marrying accessibility with aesthetic, to provide an insight into a world in which we are all active participants, but often passive onlookers. Richly detailed, with stories of politics and innovation, Williamson’s Accessible America takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences.
Book Synopsis Chronic Illness and Disability by : June Hunt
Download or read book Chronic Illness and Disability written by June Hunt and published by Rose Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You feel overlooked, deprived, even resentfulthese are the side effects of chronic illness your doctor failed to mention. While others appear to enjoy good health, you struggle for sensible answers. Like any loss, the loss of healthmust be grieved. Pulling from her experience as a caregiver and counselor, June Hunt compassionately takes you through the grieving process, showing you where to find comfort and answers in the Word of God.
Book Synopsis The Psychological and Social Impact of Illness and Disability, Seventh Edition by : Irmo Marini, PhD, DSc, CRC, CLCP
Download or read book The Psychological and Social Impact of Illness and Disability, Seventh Edition written by Irmo Marini, PhD, DSc, CRC, CLCP and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the Sixth Edition: "Adds an important international perspective on illness and disability. The personal narratives help bring the real world of people who are [survivors] to the forefront of the scientific discourse." —Doody's Medical Reviews Now in its seventh edition, this bestselling classic continues to be the most comprehensive and diverse text available on the psychosocial aspects of illness and disability. It is substantially revised to reflect the growing disparity between the haves and the have-nots and incorporates social justice issues throughout the text. In addition to new and updated information integrated throughout the book, the seventh edition features two new chapters addressing social justice in regards to depression and disability, and the psychosocial aspects of grief, death, and dying. Additionally, the text now includes an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint slides. Combining a mix of seminal work from rehabilitation counseling legends with current theoretical and treatment approaches, the book provides a practical, real-life perspective and offers broad and inclusive coverage of the day-to-day challenges of working with a diverse and marginalized population. Additionally, the text analyzes barriers to enabling patients with disabilities and improving their quality of life. Chapter objectives, review questions, and personal narratives in each chapter facilitate in-depth learning. New to the Seventh Edition: Completely updated to incorporate social justice issues, from the medical and psychosocial aspects of combat trauma to the impact of mental and physical disabilities on immigrants, refugees and asylum-seekers, throughout Includes two new chapters addressing Social Justice/Depression and Disability and the Psychosocial Aspects of Grief, Death, and Dying Includes an Instructor’s Manual and PowerPoint slides Enhanced coverage of topics concerning diverse and marginalized populations, including Women with Disabilities, Sexuality and Disabilities, LBGTQ Issues, Aging with Disabilities, Trauma, and more Key Features: Presents the most comprehensive and diverse coverage of psychosocial aspects of disability of any text Emphasizes the negative impact of societal attitudes and treatment of disabled individuals on their psychological adjustment to disability Examines both seminal and current thinking and treatment approaches Provides a bridge between theory and practice with abundant narratives Includes objectives and reviews questions in each chapter
Download or read book Am Wisdom's Child written by Liz Siva and published by Ruder Finn Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first novel, Liz Siva takes the reader on an engaging, sometimes exciting, sometimes sentimental journey from despair to hope to ultimate success through her central character, Benjamin Jones, a struggling African-American child in Harlem.
Book Synopsis Wisdom for Everyday Living by : Steve Woods
Download or read book Wisdom for Everyday Living written by Steve Woods and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers devotions intended to help readers deepen their faith and experience spiritual renewal, featuring thoughts and reflections from prominent Christian leaders.
Book Synopsis Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World by : Beth A. Haller
Download or read book Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World written by Beth A. Haller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the stories of disabled people who have been influential in creating modern mass media. Through the voices of key disabled media makers and collaborators, the author highlights the ways in which their contributions are changing society’s understanding of disability and shaping mass media and culture. Spanning a range of media formats – television/streaming productions, performances, podcasts, TED Talks, films, reality TV, graphic novels, and social media channels – the book illustrates how disabled people are confronting the marginalization they have faced in mass media for decades. Modern disabled media creators are leveraging new media platforms to recognize the lived experiences of disability and their authentic place in media culture. This innovative and thought-provoking volume will be an important read for scholars, disability advocates, and students of Disability Studies, Mass Communication/Media Studies, as well as mass media production faculty, disabled people, and their allies The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Book Synopsis Loving Our Own Bones by : Julia Watts Belser
Download or read book Loving Our Own Bones written by Julia Watts Belser and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture A 2024 National Jewish Book Award winner and essential read on disability, spirituality, and social justice “What’s wrong with you?” Scholar, activist, and rabbi Julia Watts Belser is all too familiar with this question. What’s wrong isn’t her wheelchair, though—it’s exclusion, objectification, pity, and disdain. Our attitudes about disability have such deep cultural roots that we almost forget their sources. But open the Bible and disability is everywhere. Moses believes his stutter renders him unable to answer God’s call. Jacob’s encounter with an angel leaves him changed not just spiritually but physically: he gains a limp. For centuries, these stories have been told and retold in ways that treat disability as a metaphor for spiritual incapacity or as a challenge to be overcome. Through fresh and unexpected readings of the Bible, Loving Our Own Bones instead paints a luminous portrait of what it means to be disabled and one of God’s beloved. Belser delves deep into sacred literature, braiding the insights of disabled, feminist, Black, and queer thinkers with her own experiences as a queer disabled Jewish feminist. She talks back to biblical commentators who traffic in disability stigma and shame. What unfolds is a profound gift of disability wisdom, a radical act of spiritual imagination that can guide us all toward a powerful reckoning with each other and with our bodies. Loving Our Own Bones invites readers to claim the power and promise of spiritual dissent, and to nourish their own souls through the revolutionary art of radical self-love.
Author :Mark A. Stebnicki, PhD, LCP, DCMHS, CRC, CCM Publisher :Springer Publishing Company ISBN 13 :0826106560 Total Pages :568 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (261 download)
Book Synopsis The Psychological and Social Impact of Illness and Disability, 6th Edition by : Mark A. Stebnicki, PhD, LCP, DCMHS, CRC, CCM
Download or read book The Psychological and Social Impact of Illness and Disability, 6th Edition written by Mark A. Stebnicki, PhD, LCP, DCMHS, CRC, CCM and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edition...adds an important international perspective on illness and disability. The personal narratives help bring the real world of people who are suffering to the forefront of the scientific discourse."--Doody's Medical Reviews Now in its sixth edition, this best-selling textbook continues to be the most comprehensive and diverse text available on the psychosocial aspects of disability. It examines current thought and treatment approaches to working with individuals with disabilities through the contributions of expert thinkers and practitioners in the disability field. Abundant and insightful narratives by disabled individuals offer a bridge between theory and practice for students in rehabilitation psychology and counseling courses. In addition to completely updated and reorganized material, this edition contains insightful new section introductions, empirically based research articles, and the contributions of international researchers presenting a more global and richer perspective on the psychosocial aspects of disability and illness. It also contains an increased focus on the negative impact of societal attitudes and treatment of disabled individuals on their psychological adjustment to disability. The addition of objectives at the beginning of each chapter and review questions and personal perspectives at the end of each chapter further facilitate in-depth learning. Key Features: Presents the most comprehensive and diverse coverage of psychosocial aspects of disability topics of any textbook available Examines contemporary thinking and treatment approaches in working with individuals with disabilities Provides a bridge between theory and practice through the narratives of individuals with disabilities Establishes a historical understanding of societal attitudes toward disability and treatment past and present of persons with disabilities Analyzes barriers to enabling persons with disabilities and improving social consciousness and quality of life for this population Facilitates course planning through inclusion of objectives and review questions/personal perspectives in each chapter
Book Synopsis Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel by :
Download or read book Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
