Topical/Physically Challenged
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Improving the Experience of Health Care for People Living with Sensory Disability: Knowing What is Going On
$34.95 Add to cartHow does a patient with sensory disability – such as a hearing or vision impairment, or both – get effective communication from a health care provider?
Too often, the answer is that they don’t. Communi
- Series: Disability Studies
- Author: Watharow, Annmaree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271428
- Language: English
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Disability Praxis: The Body as a Site of Struggle
$50.58 Add to cart‘A masterful intervention that is particularly pertinent for an age of austerity, pandemic, and rising living costs’ Robert Chapman, author of Empire of Normality
‘A brilliant and much-needed contribut
- Author: Williams-Findlay, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745340989
- Language: English
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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the Mind
$22.99 Add to cartImagine a village where everyone “speaks” sign language. Just such a village — an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness — is at the heart of Talking Hands: Wha… [more below]
- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743247132
- Language: English
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Accessibility Disabled World Travels – Tips for Travelers with Disabilities: Handicapped, Special Needs, Seniors, & Baby Boomers – How to Travel Barri
$12.99 Add to cartAre you one of the many active seniors or baby boomers who have some disabilities and wants to travel? Do you have special needs, use a wheelchair and are looking for accessible travel options? Let’s
- Author: Ingram, Tracey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0999577549
- Language: English
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Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
$17.99 Add to cartFor 30 years Roger Fouts has pioneered communication with chimpanzees through sign language–beginning with a mischievous baby chimp named Washoe. This remarkable book describes Fout’s odyssey from no… [more below]
- Series: Living Planet Book
- Author: Fouts, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0380728222
- Language: English
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Life on Wheels: The A to Z Guide to Living Fully with Mobility Issues
$27.00 Add to cart“There are 1.7 million regular wheelchair users in the United State. Like anyone else, they work, marry, have children, travel, play sports, and are full members of their community. Life on Wheels mak… [more below]
- Author: Karp, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 477
- Publish Date: August 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1932603336
- Language: English
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I’ll Scream Later
$18.99 Add to cartFrom Children of a Lesser God to Dancing with the Stars, to Switched at Birth, Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actress Marlee Matlin shares her incredible life story in a moving and often surp… [more below]
- Author: Matlin, Marlee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 1439171513
- Language: English
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Signs of a Happy Baby: The Baby Sign Language Book
$17.95 Add to cartA guide for parents on how to tell what their baby is saying before their baby can verbally speak.
- Author: White, William Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1683502094
- Language: English
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Disability and Inclusive Communities
$9.99 Add to cartDisability and Inclusive Communities intends to help readers learn how to build communities that fully include people with disabilities. Often our social practices unintentionally exclude those with d
- Series: Calvin Shorts
- Author: Timpe, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: December 21 2018
- ISBN10: 1937555321
- Language: English
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The Girl from Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape from War to Freedom
$18.99 Add to cartPrize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teena
- Author: Mustafa, Nujeen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062567748
- Language: English
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Laws We Need To Know: Understanding Rules and Programs for Persons with Mental Illness
$29.00 Add to cartThose suffering from mental illness and their supporters need to understand and access complex rules and programs. As a knowledgeable attorney cannot be called every time a question arises, this book
- Author: Miller, Baron L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: August 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1734771208
- Language: English
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Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience
$14.95 Add to cartThis collection of essays from one of the country’s leading voices on issues facing the signing community appears at a time of troubling trends and exciting new developments. Through his lucid and acc… [more below]
- Author: Clark, John Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1941960006
- Language: English
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Communicating in Sign: Creative Ways to Learn American Sign Language (ASL)
$14.99 Add to cartAmerican Sign Language (ASL) is the primary means of communication among the 22 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people in this country–and those who live and work with them.
Communicating in Sign re… [more below]- Series: Flying Hands Book
- Author: Chambers, Diane P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0684835207
- Language: English
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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
$25.99 Read moreA memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body tha
- Author: Taussig, Rebekah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0062936794
- Language: English
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Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities
$39.00 Add to cartNazi “euthanasia” programs were designed to eliminate all persons with disabilities who, according to Nazi ideology, threatened the health and purity of the German race. Ms. Evans explores the develop… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Susanne E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2004
- ISBN10: 1566635659
- Language: English
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Signing for Kids: The Fun Way for Anyone to Learn American Sign Language, Expanded
$17.00 Read moreThe bestselling Parents’ Choice Award Winner-now expanded with a new section on computer and technology terms.
Fully illustrated in a large format with clear, easy-to-read instructions, Signing for K- Author: Flodin, Mickey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0399533206
- Language: English
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Essential Baby Sign Language: The Most Important 75 Signs You Can Teach Your Baby
$13.99 Add to cartCommunicate with your baby–today!
With Essential Baby Sign Language, you can feel closer to your baby than you ever thought possible! Featuring seventy-five of the most important signs babies need ev- Author: Simpson, Teresa R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 18 2013
- ISBN10: 1440560846
- Language: English
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The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
$17.99 Add to cartIn The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, Karen Elizabeth Gordon “manages to make the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, and
- Author: Gordon, Karen Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 147
- Publish Date: August 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0618382011
- Language: English
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When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation
$19.95 Read moreA lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated.
Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening af
- Author: Fraser, Tara Sidhoo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1551529270
- Language: English
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Gimp: The Story Behind the Star of Murderball
$17.99 Add to cartCollege soccer star Mark Zupan had been out drinking one night and had passed out in the back of his best friend’s pickup truck when his friend got in the driver’s seat, decided to take the truck for
- Author: Zupan, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 61127698
- Language: English
