Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"---in order to head off David's embarrassing behaviors. ...
Rich and attractive rancher Ryan Kendrick falls for gorgeous paraplegic Bethany Coulter. Initially, Bethany is too fearful of disappointment to fully return Ryan's love, but eventually the two become intimate.
The Eighth Edition of Human Exceptionality continues to provide a complete, accessible introduction to teaching, interacting, and living with individuals with exceptionalities across the lifespan, with an increased attention to "teaching." After a detailed introduction to the foundations of exceptionality, featuring completely revised and expanded ...
The definitive work on occupational therapy for physical dysfunction returns in its Sixth Edition, with reputable co-editors and clinical, academic, and consumer contributors. This text provides a current and well-rounded view of the field - from theoretical rationale to evaluation, treatment, and follow-up. Through the Occupational Functioning ...
In a savage society that shuns the weak, a lame orphan named Kira is allowed to live only because she is an amazingly talented weaver. Given the responsibility of restoring the historic robe that is worn during the village's annual Ruin Song Gathering (an event that retells the history of their society), Kira is taken from her rundown hut and sent ...
Labelled "dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled," Jonathan Mooney was a short-bus rider - a derogatory term used for kids in special education. To learn how others had moved beyond labels, he bought his own short bus and set out cross-country, looking for kids who had dreamed up magical, beautiful ways to overcome the obstacles that separated ...
Fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up to a big problem: he's invisible, literally. His parents want him to keep his condition a secret, afraid of being swarmed by the media. Bobby isn't so sure, and when he meets Alicia, a blind girl, he finds someone he can tell of his frustrations with his parents and his feelings of helplessness. As they grow closer, ...
Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad - her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares - has been cancelled. After a year in juvenile ...
Fourteen-year-old Shawn suffers from cerebral palsy and can't control his muscles. But his mother and two siblings don't know that he has an amazing ability: he has a perfect memory and can remember every single detail of his life, as well as predict the future. But this gift becomes horrifying when Shawn realizes that his father, who left years ...
In his first major novel since "Holes," the acclaimed author explores issues of race, the nature of celebrity, the invisible connections that determine a person's life, and what it takes to stay on course.
"Pedretti's Occupational Therapy Skills for Physical Dysfunction" gives a comprehensive, in-depth overview of occupational therapy history and theory, the occupational therapy process and practice, evaluation and intervention in the occupational performance areas, performance skills and client factors, implementation of intervention, and ...
The New Edition of this respected reference continues to provide state-of-the-art, practical guidance on the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with orthopaedic problems. Organized by anatomic region, this resource covers everything from the initial examination and differential diagnosis...through treatment and postoperative ...
This text features a strengths-based approach to help clients with disabilities gain greater independence and resilience. This comprehensive text prepares helpers to work successfully with persons with disabilities.
Thomas Todd, the son of a wealthy sugar planter, is always taunting and belittling Sara Winslow, a half-Cajun girl whose family lives on land owned by Thomas's father. But when he goes alligator hunting on a dare and finds himself in grave danger, Sara is the only one who can save his life--and her own.
Caught up in her emotions, the usually very proper Lady Henrietta Maclellan writes a steamy love letter to herself from the devilishly handsome Simon Darby. When the letter is mistakenly made public, the ensuing scandal can be resolved only if the two marry--immediately. Now married to a man she longs for but barely knows, Lady Henrietta is about ...
The Disability Studies Reader collects for the first time representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. People with disabilities comprise fifteen per cent of the population nationally and worldwide, making them the largest physical minority. Yet they have been marginalized not only in society at large but within the ...
In the tradition of such bestsellers as "Tuesdays with Morrie", this emotionally powerful collection of letters from grandfather to grandson will touch readers right down to their core. When his grandson was born, Daniel Gottlieb began to write a series of heartfelt letters that he hoped Sam would read later in life. He planned to cover all the ...
The first novel by the author of the acclaimed national bestseller "The Sunday Wife" is available once again. Love, friendship, betrayal, unfulfilled desires, and heartbreaking losses--once the waves of change surge through Zion County, the lives of its people are inextricably altered. Reissue.
Fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood struggles through a physical loss to the start of acceptance in this absorbing, artful novel which is at once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive.
Strong at the Broken Places is the remarkable story of five ordinary people trapped in the complex world of serious chronic illness. In this intimate portrait, acclaimed journalist Richard M. Cohen probes lives of sickness as these individuals struggle to cope. In 2003, Cohen published Blindsided, a bestselling memoir of illness. The outpouring of ...
Fifteen-year-old Isobel "Izzy" Lingard must have half of her right leg amputated after being involved in a car accident. A cheerleader who always took her happiness for granted, Izzy must now deal with not only adjusting to life with only one leg but also with the reactions of her family and friends. Some overcompensate and smother her with ...
12-year-old Rosie has had an argument with lifelong friend Bailey, the blind boy next door who is closer than a brother. Bailey is mysteriously angry because Rosie secretly learned to read Braille. Even worse for Rosie, the pretty new girl who just moved in across the street has been flirting with him. As she cooks an Italian dinner, Granny ...
Poor, crippled Tiny Tim from Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL has grown up, and Christmas is coming again. But things are very different now. Bob Cratchit has died (though his ghost still haunts his son), but Tim is now a healthy and well-educated lad in his mid-20s--still, however, having trouble making ends meet, to the point where he has to take a ...
The most comprehensive physical therapy text available on this topic, "Orthotics and Prosthetics in Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition" provides clinically relevant information in a reader-friendly format. It provides essential information about orthotic/prosthetic prescription and fabrication to give readers a foundation for gait assessment, both pre- ...
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