How do you establish trust and meaningful connection with a sibling who suffers from schizophrenia? In an attempt to rekindle her relationship with her estranged brother Steve, Joan takes him to art the Art Studios in Vancouver, where...
People with disabilities
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Auteur:Boxall, Joan, Corcoran, Stephen A.Sommaire: - Auteur:Wong, AliceSommaire:
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent-but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the...
- Auteur:Wong, AliceSommaire:
Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories...
- Auteur:Mattlin, BenSommaire:
An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
- Auteur:Withers, A. J.Sommaire:
An accessible introduction to disability studies, Disability Politics and Theory provides a concise survey of disability history, exploring the concept of disability as it has been conceived from the late 19th century to the present....
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Disability and Social Policy in Canada, 2e is the most comprehensive source of information on the present state of the disability policy in Canada. This new edition, edited by Dr. Mary Ann McColl and Dr. Lyn Jongbloed, moves beyond...
- Auteur:Siebert, Robert, DiMarco, NyleSommaire:
Nyle DiMarco shares stories, both heartbreaking and humorous, of what it means to navigate a world built for hearing people. Through his stories and those of his Deaf family, he opens many windows into the Deaf experience.
- Auteur:Matheson, NeilSommaire:
Neil Matheson is a first-time writer from western Canada, currently residing in Surrey, British Columbia. Born with a physical disability called Cerebral Palsy, Neil experienced life on a pair of crutches, walked through life on a pair...
- Auteur:Power, PaulSommaire:
Paul Power’s play, Crippled, has garnered awards and glowing reviews for his portrayal of his experiences as a person living with a disability. Now in a published form, his story of challenge, loss, and redemption presents universal...
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Auteur:Shaw, LianeSommaire:Ryan finds his freedom in the water, where he is not bound by gravity and his wheelchair. When he rescues his schoolmate, Jack, from the water their lives become connected, whether they like it or not. Ryan keeps Jack's secret about...
- Auteur:Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah LakshmiSommaire:
Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She is also a long-time...
- Auteur:Province of British ColumbiaSommaire:
The Accessibility Secretariat provides annual Accessibility 2024 progress updates each year. These updates highlight how the government, businesses, and communities are working together to increase accessibility and reduce barriers for...
- Auteur:Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah LakshmiSommaire:
There are many ways for a family to be: spread out, packed together, close or far or always moving. This family lives in two houses connected by a bridge of flowers. When the bridge falls apart one stressful day, Mona and her sibling...
- Auteur:Hamilton, VirginiaSommaire:
The kids in class call Natalie "Bluish" because her skin is tinted blue from chemotherapy. Though weak, she also wants to be independent. Dreenie is fascinated by Bluish and wants to be her friend.
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Auteur:Krause, CarolSommaire:Adults in their 20s share their real experiences living with disability. This collection of first-person narratives and dialogues is grouped into sections pertaining to different aspects of the writers’ lives, including education and...
- Auteur:Sjunneson, ElsaSommaire:
A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing...
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Auteur:Sommaire:"Beauty is a Verb is the first of its kind: a high-quality anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities. Poems and essays alike consider how poetry, coupled with the experience of disability, speaks to the poetics of...
- Auteur:Blake, MelissaSommaire:
Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies. In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN...
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Auteur:den Hartog, KristenSommaire:Ruth grew too fast. A young girl over seven feet tall, she struggles to conceal the physical and mental symptoms of her rapid growth, to connect with other children, and to appease her parents, Elspeth, an English seamstress who lost...
- Auteur:Province of British ColumbiaSommaire:
A standard is a set of rules or guidelines. The Service Delivery Standard provides guidance on how to remove barriers for people with disabilities accessing goods or services from an organization. The goal is that events, activities,...
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