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  • A Brain's Battle Against a Stroke

    My Recovery Combines My Memories of Dad's Approach with Medicine Today

    by Robert Sussler ...
    A stroke because it is the blocking of blood flow to tissues within thebrain can be life threatening , leave permanent damage, or require thepatient to do daily battle with his own brain.The recovery of the stroke patient requires the specialist to treat , to understand and to involve the whole patient and not just the.physical damage and the cause. . Today , medicine concentrates on the physical ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

    by Richard Baer ...
    "[A]n absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case of multiple personality disorder--from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery."-- Colin Ross, author of Multiple Personality Order and The Osiris ComplexIn 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatrist Richard Baer’s office seeking help for her depression and a persistent memory problem: she ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • About Canada: Disability Rights

    by Deborah Stienstra ...
    Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Using the stories and voices of people with ... Read more

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  • No Pity

    People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

    by Joseph P. Shapiro ...
    “A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post“The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune“Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It ... Read more

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  • Just Jen

    Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis

    by Jen Powley ...
    Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and legs.Just Jen is a powerful memoir that tells the story of Powley’s life at the time of her diagnosis, and the infinite, irrevocable ways it has changed since. Powley’s writing pulls no punches. She is lively, bold and unapologetic, answering questions people are often afraid to ask ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non-Verbal Learning Disability

    Stories and Strategies

    by Yvona Fast ...
    Most people with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD) or Asperger Syndrome (AS) are underemployed. This book sets out to change this. With practical and technical advice on everything from job hunting to interview techniques, from 'fitting in' in the workplace to whether or not to disclose a diagnosis, this book guides people with NLD or AS successfully through the employment mine field. There is ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Dyslexia-Successful Inclusion in the Secondary School

    Edited by Lindsay Peer, Gavin Reid ...
    Increasingly dyslexia is becoming a whole-school issue. The responsibility for addressing the needs of dyslexic students no longer rests with one individual but is the responsibility of all school staff - subject specialists and school management. This timely book addresses this need by providing specific guidance to secondary school staff on how to support dyslexic students within different ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Accessible Tourism

    Concepts and Issues

    Edited by Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis, Dr. Simon Darcy ...
    Series Book 45 - Aspects of Tourism
    Inclusion, disability, an ageing population and tourism are increasingly important areas of study due to their implications for both tourism demand and supply. This book therefore sets out to explore and document the current theoretical approaches, foundations and issues in the study of accessible tourism. In drawing together the contributions to this volume the editors have applied broader social ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited

    by Tom Shakespeare ...
    Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs a firmer conceptual and empirical footing.This new edition is updated throughout, reflecting Shakespeare’s most recent thinking, drawing on ... Read more

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  • Disabled Veterans in History

    Edited by David A. Gerber ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from the Ancient World to the present. The essays address the emergence of "veteran" as a political ... Read more

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  • Living the Edges

    A Disabled Women's Reader

    Edited by Diane Driedger ...
    This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility. They bring to light the discrimination they experience through sexism, because they are ... Read more

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  • The Disarticulate

    Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity

    by James Berger ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    Language is integral to oursocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?The mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and otherneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificialintelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders.In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the‘disarticulate ... Read more

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