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“heather vincent”

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  • It's All Right Mum!

    A mother's journey with muscular dystrophy

    by Heather Vincent ...
    A heartwarming story of courage, faith and family love in the life story of David Vincent a young New Zealander who suffered muscular dystrophy (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - DMD) and whose 27-year life touched hundreds of people."David displayed so many characteristics of great sportspeople: courage, determination, passion and a strong desire to be the very best he could despite his disability. ... Read more

    $3.51 USD

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  • Switching Time

    A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities

    by Richard Baer ...
    In 1989, a woman walked into Dr. Richard Baer’s office asking for help with memory loss. Thus begins the first and only complete account of Dissociative Identity Disorder treatment told from inside the consulting room.“An absorbing journey through a psychiatrist’s dauntingly challenging first case—from the beginning of therapy to stable integration and recovery. Vivid, loaded with fascinating ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Just Jen

    Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis

    by Jen Powley ...
    Winner of the 2017 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction!Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and legs.Just Jen is a powerful memoir that tells the story of Powley’s life at the time of her diagnosis, and the infinite, irrevocable ways it has changed since. Powley’s writing pulls no punches. She is lively, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome or Non-Verbal Learning Disability

    Stories and Strategies

    by Yvona Fast ...
    Most people with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD) or Asperger Syndrome (AS) are underemployed. This book sets out to change this. With practical and technical advice on everything from job hunting to interview techniques, from 'fitting in' in the workplace to whether or not to disclose a diagnosis, this book guides people with NLD or AS successfully through the employment mine field. There is ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Deaf Gain

    Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity

    Edited by H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Joseph J. Murray ...
    Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold intervention into ongoing debates about disability and what it means to be human, experts from a variety of disciplines ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship

    A project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)

    by Michael J. Prince (Principal Researcher), Yvonne Peters (Principal Researcher) ...
    Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship, a five year (2008 – 2014) SSHRC funded CommunityUniversity Research Alliance (CURA) project, has been led by the Council of Canadians withDisabilities (CCD), with Professor Michael J. Prince and Yvonne Peters as the Co-PrincipalResearchers. Of the over 90 CURA grants awarded by SSHRC over the years, it is one of onlya very few that were community led. This ... Read more

    $2.18 USD

  • The Minor Gesture

    by Erin Manning ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Disability Theory

    by Tobin Anthony Siebers ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy---they're all ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Disability and Passing

    Blurring the Lines of Identity

    Edited by Jeffrey A Brune, Daniel J Wilson ...
    Passing—an act usually associated with disguising race—also relates to disability. Whether a person classified as mentally ill struggles to suppress aberrant behavior to appear "normal" or a person falsely claims a disability to gain some advantage, passing is a pervasive and much discussed phenomenon. Nevertheless, Disability and Passing is the first anthology to examine this issue.The editors ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • An Employer's Guide to Managing Professionals on the Autism Spectrum

    by Integrate, Marcia Scheiner, Joan Bogden ...
    Employees with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may be hugely beneficial to a workforce, but it can be difficult for individuals with no formal training to manage these employees successfully. This definitive guide will help managers and colleagues successfully interact with and support these professionals on the autism spectrum so as to ensure mutual success.Integrate Autism Employment Advisors ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • The Child with Spina Bifida

    by Elizabeth M. Anderson, Bernie Spain ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Children and Disability
    First published in 1977, this book focuses on the disability of spina bifida in children. Children with the condition frequently suffer with severe physical handicaps such as lower limb paralysis and incontinence, as well as intellectual impairment. It can be difficult for the families of these multiply handicapped children and they often require the help of professionals from many disciplines. In ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • It's a Small World

    International Deaf Spaces and Encounters

    Edited by Michele Friedner, Annelies Kusters ...
    It’s a Small World explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME (“I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same”) and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national and international encounters (e.g., conferences, sporting events, arts festivals, camps) and the role of political/economic power structures on deaf ... Read more

    $39.99 USD