Download or read book The Disability Journey written by John W. Wilde Ph. D. and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disability Journey addresses a subject that is at once timely and timeless, since disabilities will always be with us. Inevitably, disability awareness will become increasingly important to our society with each passing year. An insightful disability resource, The Disability Journey offers the wisdom, insights, and guidance to make your crossing the bridge from awareness to action a reality. Dr. John Wilde is a counselor and professor, and founder of EDU-QUEST, a consulting company that provides disability trainings for government agencies and businesses throughout the United States. Because of his knowledge of disability rights and Chinese culture, the United Nations tapped his unique expertise to improve China's disability laws. The author completed an extensive report titled A Comparative Study of Disability Laws in China and the USA in which he offers suggestions on how China might develop more equitable disability rights.
Download or read book Reflections from a Different Journey written by Stanley Klein and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers parents of children with disabilities inspiration and advice from those who've been there Reflections from a Different Journey presents 40 stories by successful adults who grew up with disabilities. They provide insights into what it is like to persevere in the face of community prejudices, and what it takes for families and children with disabilities to work together toward fulfillment. While there are many books for parents on raising a child with a disability, this is the first to help them learn from people with disabilities, and to help children face the unique challenges and rewards of growing up with a disability. Reflections from a Different Journey will also encourage and inspire older children and adults with disabilities, other family members, and education and health care professionals who serve these families.
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.
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"--
Download or read book The Future of Disability in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of disability in America will depend on how well the U.S. prepares for and manages the demographic, fiscal, and technological developments that will unfold during the next two to three decades. Building upon two prior studies from the Institute of Medicine (the 1991 Institute of Medicine's report Disability in America and the 1997 report Enabling America), The Future of Disability in America examines both progress and concerns about continuing barriers that limit the independence, productivity, and participation in community life of people with disabilities. This book offers a comprehensive look at a wide range of issues, including the prevalence of disability across the lifespan; disability trends the role of assistive technology; barriers posed by health care and other facilities with inaccessible buildings, equipment, and information formats; the needs of young people moving from pediatric to adult health care and of adults experiencing premature aging and secondary health problems; selected issues in health care financing (e.g., risk adjusting payments to health plans, coverage of assistive technology); and the organizing and financing of disability-related research. The Future of Disability in America is an assessment of both principles and scientific evidence for disability policies and services. This book's recommendations propose steps to eliminate barriers and strengthen the evidence base for future public and private actions to reduce the impact of disability on individuals, families, and society.
Download or read book The Disability Experience written by Arthur Soissons-Segal and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disability is not Inability written by Nathaniel Amanze and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about people with disabilities (PWDs) and the extraordinary talents they have that can contribute towards the world economy generally and that of Southern and Central Africa in particular. The papers selected for this book were presented at an international conference that was held at the University of Botswana from 16th to 19th October 2018. The conference was held in order to address the injustices, discrimination and exclusion that people with disabilities face in their daily life. The papers discuss the need to train families and leaders in disability awareness, for clear national policies, the funding needed to address issues that affect PWDs, inclusive education, and the need to create a conducive environment and the implementation of policies, strategies and programmes. The book also points to the importance of sharing stories and experiences of success as a strategy of empowering PDWs.
Download or read book Stuck in Neutral written by Terry Trueman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "intense reading experience"* is a Printz Honor Book. Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger. To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life. *Booklist starred review
Download or read book For Such a Time as This written by Freda M. Lucy and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Such a Time as This is a realistic look at life with a Down syndrome child over a journey of four decades. Any parent, parent-to-be, educator, medical personnel, church affiliate, and individual in general can learn how to help parents of children with any disability, both physically and intellectually disabled.
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.
Download or read book Disabilities of the Color Line written by Dennis Tyler and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rather than simply engaging in a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement are shunned alike, Disabilities of the Color Line argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed disability as a part of Black social life in varied and complex ways. Sometimes their affirmation of disability serves to capture how their bodies, minds, and health have been and are made vulnerable to harm and impairment by the state and society. Sometimes their assertion of disability symbolizes a sense of commonality and community that comes not only from a recognition of the shared subjection of blackness and disability but also from a willingness to imagine and create a world distinct from the dominant social order. Through the work of David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, and Mamie Till-Mobley, Disabilities of the Color Line examines how Black writer-activists have engaged in an aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that show how Black communities have rigorously acknowledged disability as a response to forms of racial injury and in the pursuit of racial and disability justice"--
Download or read book Reflections from a Different Journey written by Stanley D. Klein and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents 40 stories by successful adults who grew up with disabilities. They provide insights into what it is like to persevere in the face of community prejudices, and what it takes for families and children with disabilities to work together toward fulfillment. While there are many books for parents on raising a child with a disability, this is the first to help them learn from people with disabilities, and to help children face the unique challenges and rewards of growing up with a disability. It will also encourage and inspire older children and adults with disabilities, other family members, and education and health care professionals who serve these families"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Behind the Smile written by Anja Christoffersen and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anja Christoffersen learned early on that you can never judge a book by its cover. Born with a congenital disability that deformed her digestive, skeletal, reproductive, circulatory, urinary and respiratory systems; she had her first surgery at five hours old. Despite a grim diagnosis, from the outside you would be unable to tell she was any different. You would never have known that at birth, the medical fraternity warned that she would never live a normal life. Once Anja grew to an age where she could understand her medical differences, she made the decision that she did not want an ordinary life anyway - she wanted an extraordinary one. As soon as Anja realised happiness is a choice, she made the decision she would be happy despite her circumstances. From surgical theatres to chasing her dreams led her to a career as an international fashion model. Join Anja as she walks the catwalks of Australia and Europe with her hidden medical condition, overcomes challenges and discovers how to keep smiling no matter what.
Download or read book Called to Rise written by Madeleine R. Crowley and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Taylor TurboChaser written by David Baddiel and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the latest Brilliant Blockbuster from bestselling Baddiel! A non-stop thrill-ride adventure that will have readers young and old racing to the finishing line.
Download or read book Marbles written by Ellen Forney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity. Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to “cure” an otherwise brilliant mind. Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney’s memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist’s work, as she shares her own story through bold black-and-white images and evocative prose.
Download or read book KEEP on WALKING written by Sheldon Crocker and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a journey of facing and healing a past to find redemption to reclaim a soul. In this book, I take you on the journey of coming unshackled from life's conditioning, early childhood trauma and becoming what everyone told me to be. -- Finding myself on an extraordinary journey through the "dark room" of the soul to find myself--becoming free from my past, turning my worst days into the foundation on which I rebuilt my life. My story takes you on your journey as well, It questions what you believe and takes you on an exceptional experience of what happens when we make the hero's journey to find the wild inside. A part of us who knows the way, identifies the right move, the next step. It recognizes the smothered truth of what's under the need to be pleasing, charming and conforming to society's demands. My book's purpose is to show you what's possible when we choose to heal when we step out of the box we're put in by society. When we decide to get outside of the ordinary, everyday suffocation of the reality we exist in, we can find deeper meaning and more profound healing from the trauma we've endured in life. We unleash the Wildness that's been sleeping too long. The Wildness is our instincts, our worth, our intuition, our soul, our warrior, all wrapped into one. Life is going to be challenging; it's life. Bad things will happen to people. I've learned that the easy thing to do in life is to create walls, push people away, hold ourselves back, and distrust. The hard part is to find a way to heal, to trust, to love, to be ourselves in a world continually tells us to be someone or something else. Keep on Walking is a journey of rectification, for most of us, we've had much stuff happen, which causes us to operate from fear, trauma, coping and triggers. Releasing ourselves from these isn't only possible, it's necessary. To live a thriving life, we must come home to our soul, passion and purpose; to find whom we are buried under all the rubble, as we rise from the ashes, hearing and answering the battle cry concerning working to end the stigma and prejudice surrounds mental illness AS WELL AS disabilities. My story isn't one-dimensional. It moves, as my journey unfolded, from past to present and back to past; to older and more rooted to more recent wounds. When we dive into the questions of how it got all deranged, it isn't a neat and tidy journey. Things we do today, what we believe, are all related to numerous situations and experiences that shaped our thoughts and beliefs, maybe even changed us permanently so we could be in a world that didn't make sense. It's a story of an unbinding of sorts, of what lead to "this" I was struggling with so profoundly. The search took me all over the place. Using the same strategies I share, I reclaimed my power in life and help others do the same. "It's less about what happened to us and more about what we do about it."Lift each other up"; a simple but powerful message, encouraging us to look beyond our differences and celebrate the things making us unique. When we lift each other up, we see the things that unite us as people, instead of the things separating us.
