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That's My Child: Strategies for Parents of Children With Disabilities
Lizanne Capper
Paperback $10.36
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After the Tears: Parents Talk About Raising a Child With a Disability
Robin Simons
Hardcover $10.46
Synopsis:
In this deeply sensitive book, parents of disabled children describe with affecting candor how they first confronted their shattering experience--and then recovered to emerge stronger, healthier, and abler to cope and help their children. Black-and-white photographs.
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Aging with Spinal Cord Injury
Susan W. Charlifue
Hardcover $99.95
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Management of Spinal Cord Injury
Cynthia Perry Zejdlik
Hardcover $125.00
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The Quest for Cure: Restoring Function After Spinal Cord Injury
Sam Maddox
Paperback $22.00
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Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declaration of Independence
John Hockenberry
Hardcover $17.47; Paperback $11.96
Synopsis:
As a correspondent for ABC's "Day One," Hockenberry has traveled SCUD-menaced streets in Jerusalem, the mountains of war-torn Iraq, and New York's Great White Way--in a wheelchair. Addressing his subjects as a thought-provoking journalist first, an insightful iconoclast second, and a man who happens to be physically challenged last, he provides readers with an intriguing account of his many exploits.
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FDR's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability - And the Intense Efforts to Conceal it From the Public
Hugh Gregory Gallagher
Hardcover $19.95
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No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
Joseph P. Shapiro
Hardcover $25.00; Paperback $12.00
Synopsis:
A vibrant and compelling account of our century's last great civil rights movement. Over the last 30 years, disabled Americans have fought for freedom from the discrimination and oppression of medical, psychological, and bureaucratic establishments. This is the first popular history of the disability rights movement.
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