handicapped

Children in a writing workshop describe the lives of ten young people with special needs, including a boy with fetal alcohol syndrome, a girl with cerebral palsy, and a boy with dyslexia.

A brief biography of the life and courage of Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing at a young age, and who, with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, learned to read and write.

Contains brief biographies of Tom Thumb; Robert Wadlow, a giant; Chang and Eng, Siamese twins; Joseph Merrick, Julia Pastrana, and Herrmann Unthan.

Encourages those with physical handicaps not to allow those handicaps to change them.

Explains what physical and mental disabilities are and how people cope with them.

Information on how disabled people can access more than fifty different physical activities.

This book discusses the problems of people with physical and mental handicaps, such as finding jobs and mates, and offers suggestions for personally helping the disabled.

Gideon is sixteen-years-old, deaf, and unable to speak. A friend finds him work on a canal barge. All is well until the day he takes the initiative.

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.