physically handicapped

Even though Mike has cerebral palsy, he shows the children in his class that he can play to win when he gets the chance.

Eighth-grader Maggie's new friendship with a blind girl leads her to fear for the continuation of her school's programs for the handicapped when the school board threatens major cutbacks.

Nine-year-old Michelle describes the joys, loving times, difficulties, and other special situations involved in living with her older sister Amy Emmert, who was born severely disabled with cerebral palsy.

With the help of a hearing-impaired man, a little dog finally manages to graduate from a training school for hearing dogs.

Discusses types of hearing losses and their causes, the effects of deafness on the individual, methods of learning speech and language, and alternative forms of communication.

Sent by his guardian to live at a Louisiana school for retarded boys, Lizard, a bright, deformed youngster, escapes with the help of a visiting actor who gives him a role in his repertory company's production of "The Tempest.".

A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism.

Samantha McLean is overjoyed when she is given a pony named Shining, even though the filly is stubborn and sickly, but she is forced to make a difficult decision about the future ownership of Shining when a little handicapped girl named Mandy falls in love with the horse.

The autobiography of Shelley Nixon, a twenty-one-year old victim of cerebral palsy.

Photographs and simple text capture two weeks in the life of a handicapped boy learning to live successfully in a world made for people without handicaps.