handicapped

Nomiya's tryouts for the professional basketball team the Tokyo Lightnings has finally arrived and he is giving it all he has, but he worries it will not be enough. Meanwhile, wheelchair basketball is helping Takahashi feel like he is getting his life back.

While Nomiya works toward the goal he has decided on, Takahashi inches his way out of depression and toward recovery, but he finds comfort in unlikely company.

Athlete Kyoharu Togawa, chosen to compete for a spot on Japan's National Wheelchair Basketball Team, looks back over how far he has come since losing a leg to cancer.

Discusses various handicaps and teaches children to be sensitive to them.

A collection of personal testimonies from parents across the country who share their experiences raising special needs children and how they have coped with the various challenges of such disorders as ADD and ADHD, Asperger's syndrome and autism, and physical disabilities.

Examines the causes, symptoms, and treatment of hearing loss.

Offers parents and educators an overview of inclusion programs, with tools to help parents enhance their child's learning experience, both at home and in the classroom, and strategies for working with the education system to make the most of inclusive education.

Photographs and simple text written in both English and Spanish describes some of the tools and machines people with disabilities use such as sign language and braille, and ramps for those in wheelchairs.

A simplified, abridged version of the mysteries of a locked garden for Mary and her invalid cousin on the Yorkshire moors, accompanied by a short biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett and an essay focusing on the story's lessons of compassion.

After surviving the horrors of polio and painful physical therapy, Pauline realizes that she must overcome her fears of playing hockey again and break away from her overprotective mother when her father builds a rink in the backyard.