physically handicapped

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physically handicapped

Finding a way

living with exceptional brothers and sisters
1988
Photographs and text describe brother-sister relationships in which one sibling has a physical disability.

Like it is

facts and feelings about handicaps from kids who know
1979
A group of handicapped youngsters discuss their disabilities and how they cope with them on a day-to-day basis.

Feeling free

1979
Children with learning problems and physical disabilities talk about their handicaps.

Ana y su mundo de silencio

1979
Describes the special training and equipment used to help a deaf youngster talk, read, and write.

Seeing through the dark

blind and sighted--a vision shared
1976
Discusses one major problem of blindness--the sighted people who fear or misunderstand this handicap.

Blindness

1980
Discusses blindness and how those afflicted by it overcome this handicap.

The witch's brat.

1970
The knowledge of herbs and healing that once prompted the villagers to stone him out of town eventually becomes the salvation for a crippled boy in twelfth-century England.

Louis Braille

bringer of hope to the blind
1991
The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used by the blind throughout the world.

Freak the Mighty

1998
Outcasts Maxwell and Kevin, the former a giant of a boy who lacks intelligence and the latter a genius in leg braces, team up for a series of imaginative adventures that bring them undreamed-of discoveries.

Nothing to prove

the Jim Abbott story
1995
A look at the life and career of pitcher Jim Abbott, who was born without a right hand but overcame his disability to be a winner throughout his school and professional career.

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