physically handicapped

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physically handicapped

Tangerine

1997
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

The door in the wall

1990
A disabled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

Seeing lessons

the story of Abigail Carter and America's first school for blind people
1998
When ten-year-old Abby Carter attends the newly established school for the blind in Boston in 1832, she proves that blind people can learn and be independent.

The little lame prince

1990
A young crippled prince must reclaim his kingdom from his evil uncle, with the help of a magic cape from his godmother. This adaptation of the story uses animal characters.

Handtalk birthday

a number & story book in sign language
1987
Words and sign language depict friends helping a deaf woman celebrate her birthday.

A very special critter

1992
Little Critter discovers that the new boy in class is really not so different from anyone else, even though he is in a wheelchair.

Spider's voice

1999
Because he is a young mute person who can hear, Aran becomes involved in the adventures of Eloise and Abelard, France's most famous lovers, who lived during the twelfth century.

Petey

1998
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.

The story of my life

1980
Helen Keller tells how she learned to read, write, and speak despite the fact that she was blind and deaf.

The Helen Keller story

1959
A biography of the blind and deaf woman who rose above her physical disabilities to international renown and who helped other handicapped persons live fuller lives.

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