physically handicapped

Oscar, who is blind, teaches Lucy how to read his Braille book.

Despite the fact that Megan is deaf and Cindy can hear, the two girls become friends when Cindy moves into Megan's neighborhood, but when they go away to camp, their friendship is put to the test.

"Dachy wears a hearing aid. But sometimes, when his friends get too noisy, he likes to turn it off to get some peace and quiet. One day, when his hearing aid is off, Dachy falls asleep and ends up floating down the river towards a waterfall and a hungry crocodile. Can his friends rescue him in time?"--Provided by publisher.

Describes how Helen Keller managed to communicate in spite of being deaf and blind.

Focuses on the early life of a woman who is well known for overcoming her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.

In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.

An autobiography of Helen Keller, written while she was a young woman, in which she tells of her early life, her relationship with her teacher Anne Sullivan, and her struggles to triumph over blindness and deafness.

When thirteen-year-old Kerry takes a job as companion to a handicapped girl whose mother runs a stables, she knows she eventually will have to deal with a past incident that has made her want to stay away from the horses she once loved.

The medical director of the Complex Adolescent Problem Program at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, answers questions from teens with chronic illnesses or disabilities about family relationships, medical issues, dating, school and work, sexuality, recreation, alcohol, medications, and other topics.

Recounts how the young Helen Keller, left blind and deaf by a childhood illness, learned to communicate with the world.