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Get the Summary of Andrew Leland's The Country of the Blind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Country of the Blind" by Andrew Leland is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted experience of blindness. Leland delves into the varied perceptions and realities of being blind, from the common misconception of total darkness to the actual diversity of visual experiences among the blind. He shares his personal...
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On the day of my birth, my mother had already decided that she wanted to give me away. She had made this decision even though she had not yet known the extent of the problems that would confront me. As it turned out, there were many, including the fact that I was not born a beautiful baby.Actually, I was considered to be quite ugly, disfigured by a cleft lip and palate that left a gaping hole in the middle of my face. In addition, I was born deaf,...
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Spanning the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, "Midge's Irish" delves into the life of Warren Le Blanc, a state hospital patient who resisted institutionalization for years. His life takes an unexpected turn when he falls in love with Midge McSorley, a fellow patient on a different unit. What follows is a tumultuous 14-year relationship characterized by ups and downs. Warren eventually finds his way out of the hospital, changes his first name, and begins...
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Imagine everything that you thought you knew about life being challenged. You now question the best way to do things. You look at what makes things easy or difficult with a new perspective. Now imagine that the person responsible for this is your child.
Typically, that is not abnormal. We always look at things with a sense of wonder and magic when our children are small. Now consider what it would be like if this stage of life never stopped.
This...
6) Jimmy
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When Jim Sayre was a totally blind child growing up in Zanesville, Ohio, in the 1940s and '50s, blind children were typically steered into occupations caning chairs or tuning pianos. "Or selling pencils on street corners," Jim says. No way he was going to settle for that.
With the help of a loving mother who saw the wisdom of integrating a blind child into the sighted world and Jim's own innate determination--he might call it stubbornness--Jim...
7) Unstoppable
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Limitless With Autism
Matthew Kenslow never gave Autism the prerogative to stop him from achieving what would bring him joy in life-spreading acceptance of others' disabilities and teaching classrooms of students. Notwithstanding, life has brought him a world of setbacks and standstills, causing him to put in extra effort to prove his competence and helping him learn how to go through things rather than around them.
Unstoppable will take...
8) My Ricans
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My Ricans is the story of our family, who migrated to the U.S. mainland during the great migration of the 1920s. It chronicles the family's experiences in a journey that lasted over fifty years and culminated in their return to the Island they called home, Puerto Rico.
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"In the Blink of an Eye" follows one man's battle with ALS. He lives by these quotes, some of which are original Tonyisms:
"ALS is so ugly in so many ways."
"You have no idea how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have" – Bob Marley
"I can say F--- to ALS, our Government, and big Pharma."
"You will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." – Dr Seuss
"Someday I won't have ALS and I will be free."...
10) Sierra's Journey
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Sierra was always an exceptional child. She was the child every parent hoped for. From the time she was two, she already knew she wanted to be the next Jenny Finch. She started T-ball at four years old on the pitcher's mound, and that is where she played until she was nineteen when she was in a horrific car accident. She had a team of about twenty doctors, and every one of them warned us that people didn't make it through this kind of accident. But...
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Este libro muestra cómo se configura el concepto de capital emocional desde las experiencias de padres y madres de niños y niñas con discapacidad. Esta investigación cualitativa con enfoque narrativo-biográfico, entrecruzó argumentos empíricos y teóricos desde lo personal-familiar, la salud y la educación. Como padres y madres, nuestras vivencias respecto a la discapacidad dieron sentido a esta lógica, justo en ese orden: una ruptura ideológica...
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The World Health Organization has reported that approximately 16% of the global population, over 1.3 billion people worldwide, had some form of disability, and that an additional 190 million people (3.8% of people over 15 years of age) experience serious difficulties in functioning normally on a daily basis. In the US, 61 million, or 26% of, adult Americans have some form of disability, and 2 in 5 adults over the age of 65 have a disability. It has...
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003
A reinterpretation of early 20th century Deaf history, with sign language at its center
During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf education regarded sign language as the "natural language" of Deaf people, using it as the principal mode of instruction and communication. These schools inadvertently became the seedbeds of an emerging Deaf community and culture. But beginning in the 1880s, an oralist...
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Julia Fox Garrison refused to listen to the professionals she called Dr. Jerk and Dr. Panic, who-after she suffered a massive, debilitating stroke at age thirty-seven-told her she'd probably die, or to Nurse Doom, who ignored her emergency call button. Instead she heeded the advice of kind, gifted Dr. Neuro, who promised her he would "treat your mind as well as your body." Julia figured if she could somehow manage to get herself into a wheelchair,...
15) Why
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Ekaterina Limonova, who pursued higher education and achieved professional success without even suspecting that her hearing ability was well below average, embarks on "Why," a journey through her life experiences, from her difficult childhood in the Soviet Union in the 1980s to her current life in Great Britain, where she was finally diagnosed with hearing loss, as well as one of her children.
With her training and experience as a specialized speech...
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En 1882 una niña que enfermó con una fiebre que estuvo a punto de morir. Ella sobrevivió, pero la quedaron secuelas, no podía ver ni oír. Debido a que no podía oír tampoco podía hablar. "Historia de mi vida" es el relato extraordinario de Helen Keller, una mujer sorda y ciega que, a pesar de sus desafíos, se convirtió en un símbolo de superación y logros. En esta obra, Keller comparte sus experiencias desde la infancia hasta la adultez,...
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With all the daily hustle and bustle, it is growing harder to hold on to our own sense of identity. As Sarah Reilley explores what it means to be authentic in a world affected by social media, a pandemic, and loss of human compassion, she takes note of what authenticity truly means to her. With humor, wit, honesty, and some tears, this journey into the human soul is touching and inspiring."I was deeply moved by how open and honest the author was about...
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Winner of two Christopher Awards and the Golden Kite Award: This national bestseller is the true story of a girl with cerebral palsy and the family that wouldn't give up on her In 1940, when Karen Killilea was born three months premature and developed cerebral palsy, doctors encouraged her parents to put her in an institution and forget about her. At the time, cerebral palsy was considered untreatable, and institutionalization was the only recourse....
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In 1997, a baby girl named Kelly was born in Sarnia, Ontario with two club feet. While still a baby, she went to the Montreal Shriner's Hospital for twenty-three visits in eight months to surgically correct her condition. By the time she was six, she was running around freely.
Her Scottish grandfather had been born in 1938 with a left club foot. Knowing what his granddaughter faced through many medical procedures at a very young age, he collected...
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In 1983 Tristan Jones, well known as one of the finest sailing adventure writers of our time, had his left leg amputated. Refusing to become landbound after a lifetime at sea, he acquired a specially designed, virtually untippable 38-foot trimaran and began to sail around the world. Outward Leg is the tale of his intrepid voyage from San Diego to London. The Improbable Voyage chronicles his heroic journey along an unusual and hazardous route from...