Kelly was a seventeen-year-old star of her high school basketball teamGevon was a twelve-year-old who played linebacker for his middle school football teamCrystle was a nineteen-year-old college student with big plans for the futureOne day youre hanging out with friends at the mall, playing basketball at school, dreaming about your latest crush, and the next youre in the hospital hooked up to tubes and wondering whether or not youll ever feel normal again.
Behind the foreboding walls of Massachusetts Harlowe Institute, scores of mentally impaired patients struggle with daily life, barely getting by on counseling and pills.
This collection of papers comprises over ten papers published in recent years, with topics on new phenomena, new problems, new thinking, and new views in the fields of "e;barrier-free communication"e;, "e;new technologies and new media"e;, "e;Internet and society"e;, etc.
This is the story of one familys journey with their daughter who has Downs syndrome from her birth in 1962 to her death in 2014 at the age of fifty-one.
On the blind side is an account of the rehabilitation of some of the men and women Lynda has trained when they lost their sight either through accident or illness or on the battlefield.
I speak candidly about radiation sickness in a poignant manner, because of not only the fact concerning myself succumbing to it, but I wanted to create a memorable impact as well as there exist people scattered about this world as these same people are suffering and dying from this copiously sad disease, or affliction, or mans' desires to alter the enviornment as he is now doing more harm than aiding it.
In Midnight Confessions, poet Joy Olree, a self-described autistic poet with MS, presents a collection of user-friendly verse reflecting on her experiences with the world and her readings and studies of the Bible.
This is the story of Judith Dent, a girl growing up in the middle of the last century, completely blind as well as autistic, at a time when few people had even heard of autism.
Social stories are short stories designed to teach social and developmental skills to pre-school children and those with Autism or other Developmental Disabilities.
"e;An excellent tool for case managers, discharge planners and other professionals involved with providing senior services who are having to explain home modifications"e; Monica N.