handicapped

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handicapped

Leaving the log house

2003
After losing her leg, Teresa is forced to stay with relatives while she learns to walk with her new prosthetic leg.

Life skills activities for secondary students with special needs

2009
A collection of illustrated activity sheets, discussion questions, applied exercises, and evaluation suggestions for teaching life skills to special needs students in grades seven through twelve; providing more than 190 specific activities in six skill areas.

Louis Braille

2000
Looks at the life of Louis Braille, telling the story of how he came to invent the Braille system of type for blind readers.

Equal access

safeguarding disability rights
1992
Text and photographs discuss the rights of persons with disabilities, including equal access to buildings, public facilities, and houses and equal opportunity in education, employment, and transportation.

Limbo

a memoir
2002
A memoir in which the author recalls her childhood, her training to become a concert pianist, and the mysterious muscle disorder that forced her to abandon that plan and turn instead to writing, and discusses what she has learned about life and faith from her experiences.

Visual supports for people with autism

a guide for parents and professionals
2007
Offers visual supports, including roadmaps, calendars, to-do lists, and other teaching tools, designed to help children and adults with autism better function in their day-to-day lives.

Brief reference of student disabilities-- with strategies for the classroom

2002
Presents an overview of laws governing the rights of students with disabilities, offers advice to teachers on how to create a positive learning environment for exceptional students, and provides descriptions of a range of disabilities and health disorders, each with teaching strategies.

About handicaps

an open family book for parents and children together
1974
Uses photographs and separate text for adult and child to explore the relationship between two children, one of whom is handicapped.

Circles of friends

people with disabilities and their friends enrich the lives of one another
1988

The sweetest spell

2012
Scorned in her Flatlands village because of a deformed foot, Emmeline Thistle's life changes when she is taken in by Wanderlands dairy farmers and discovers her magical ability to make chocolate, which is more precious and rare than gold or jewels in the kingdom of Anglund.

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