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Born on a Blue Dayby Daniel Tammett
Published by Free Press, 2006
The author has savant syndrome and this memoir is a description of how he has learned to cope in the world. He has a compulsive need for order and routine, sees numbers as shapes, colors and textures and can perform very complicated calculations in his head. He can learn new languages with great ease and currently is fluent in ten. His book describes his childhood and his journey over the next almost thirty years to a place in which he is living an independent life.
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by Jane Maxwell, Julia Watts Belser, and Darlena David
Published by the Hesperian Foundation, 2007
A handbook developed with the help and experience of women with disabilities in 42 countries - women whose disabilities include blindness, deafness, amputations, paralysis, learning difficulties, small stature, epilepsy, arthritis, and cerebral palsy.
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A Matter of Dignity : Changing the World of the Disabled
By Andrew Potok
Published by Bantam , Reprint edition, 2003
The author’s broad and people-based approach can be recommended especially to those who have endured any sort of recent health or life setback. Anyone interested in the intersection of law and activism will find this book interesting.
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A Nuts & Bolts Guide for Wheelers & Slow Walkers
by Candy Harrington
Published by Emerging Horizons, 2005
A guide to accessible travel, this second edition features an extended cruise chapter, updated resources and a new kids travel chapter, along with detailed information about the logistics of planning accessible travel by plane, train, bus and ship.
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Building a World Fit for People : Designers with Disabilities at WorkBy Elaine Ostroff, Mark Limont, and Daniel G. Hunter
Published by Adaptive Environments Center, Boston, MA
A profile of 21 designers from around the world.
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Published by University of California Press, the guide contains:
information on more than 890 public access coastal areas with
descriptions of campgrounds, trails, recreation areas, transportation, and parking. It has addresses, phone numbers, web sites, transit information, and hours of use and easy-to-read charts listing facilities and topographical features. There are
125 updated maps providing directions and driving distances.
Information on wheelchair-accessible facilities.
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
by John Callahan
Published by Vintage Books, 1990
The author used to do cartoons for a Portland weekly, entitled "The Lighter Side of Being Paralyzed for Life. He says in this book , I felt as if a huge hand had reached down out of the heavens and placed me firmly on my butt in a wheelchair while a voice said, "Just sit there and relax for fifty years. Don't get up, ever."
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FDR's Splendid Deception
By Hugh Gallagher
Published by Vandamere Press, 1994
FDR was was a polio paraplegic yet elaborate schemes were used by him and his associates to hide this. Gallagher claims we all paid a price for his pretense, for Roosevelt's last days were spent in deep melancholia which affected the way he ran the country and the decisions he made at the end of WWII.
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Inclusive Design : Designing and Developing Accessible Environments
By Peter Hall, Robert Imrie
Published Taylor & Francis, 2001
A documentation of the attitudes, values, and practices of property professionals, including developers, surveyors and architects, in responding to the building needs of disabled people. It looks at the way in which pressure for accessible building design is influencing the policies and practices of property companies and professionals, with a primary focus on commercial developments in the UK. The book also provides comments on, and references to, other countries, particularly the USA, Sweden, and New Zealand.
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Make Them Go Away : Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve and the Case Against Disability Rights
By Mary Johnson
Published by Advocado Press, 2003
Johnson theorizes that the case against disability rights is strong right now because of the philosophy that if people are perceived to be disabled, they are perceived by society to be unable, incapable of doing much for themselves or others.
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By Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Bonnie L. O'Day, research associate at Cornell University's Institute for Policy Research in Washington, D.C.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2006
Starting with a look at the history of health-care access for persons with sensory and physical disabilities in the United States, the authors then discuss the current situation, social and health insurance policies affecting people with disabilities. The second part discusses current barriers to effective health care and the final section suggests a multitude of strategies to circumvent the barriers.
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Moving ViolationsBy John Hockenberry
Published by Hyperion, 1995.
The author’s personal story, angry, articulate, insightful and often comedic.
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No Pity : People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
By Joseph P. Shapiro
Published by Three Rivers Press, 1994
With 35 million disabled Americans, the American with Disabilities Act and its implications are here to stay. The premise throughout this historical account is that there is no pity or tragedy in disability - it is society's myths, fears, and stereotypes that make being disabled difficult.
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By James Charlton
Published University of California, 2000
An indictment of disability oppression, which, the author says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities.
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The Diving Bell and the ButterflyBy Jean-Dominique Bauby
Published by Knopf, 1997
Bauby, who died several years ago, had locked-in syndrome because of motor paralysis and could communicate only by coded eye movements. He wrote this book about his experiences by blinking his one working eye.
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The Ragged Edge : The Disability Experience from the Pages of the First Fifteen Years of The Disability Rag
By Barrett Shaw
Published by Advocado Press, 1994
"The Disability Rag is the voice of a mighty revolution, and this stunning collection from its first 15 years will become an invaluable primer for anyone who wants to understand the new thinking of the disability rights movement. Here are the urgent, spirited and provocative stories that have changed the way people -- disabled and nondisabled -- have come to view what it means to have a disability." says Joseph. P. Shapiro, the author of No Pity
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By Paul K. Longmore
Published by Temple University Press, 2003
The author says "Personal inclination made me a historian. Personal encounter with public policy made me an activist."
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