Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> People with Disabilities

The book tells the story of the author's mother and father as Deaf people in the context of their lives in Victoria, their schooling in New South Wales in the 1920s and their adult lives. She brings to the fore the rural environment that surrounded their lives as children and as adults in rural Australia. Australian-Irish Sign Language was introduced into Australia in the nineteenth century through Sister Gabriel Hogan, a Dominican religious sister who

was deaf herself. She was appointed to teach Deaf children, so a school was eventually...

This is the kind of book you should read when you think you have had a bad day. Patrick Souiljaert was deprived of oxygen for the first 4 minutes of his life and consequently denied the gift of easy movement and speech for the remainder of it.

It means that this brutally frank autobiography of someone with Cerebral Palsy who needs crutches for walking and eats stairs for breakfast when he falls, should be a depressing experience for the reader. It isn't.

Patrick's sense of humour and love of his fellow human beings shines through. His recall is amazing, his perception...

Meet Paris, the spunky seeing-eye dog. This yellow Labrador had style, intelligence, and such a mischievous nature that she could simply ignore you if you tried to interrupt what she was doing.

With a playful demeanour, soft coat and paintbrush tail, Paris was just Paris; a larger than life character who gave unconditional love to everyone in the family and beyond.

In the nine years that she lived with Stephen Hayes, she laid her paws on the hearts of many. She also laid her head on the laps of many, especially around the dinner table in the hope that they might drop a piece...

I have thought over the years trying to think of ways to let other parents whose child is born with a special need. Our baby was adopted at birth. Against all odds, Becka was not supposed to survive the first 24 hours of her life. With a lot of love and prayers I would not take no for an answer.

Rebecca has brought so much happiness, joy and most of all, love to her father and myself. She is the life that I LIVE and she is EVERY breath that I take and I breathe. For all of you who feel that God has done you wrong, you CAN make it RIGHT by having all of the joy, love and happiness...

I have thought over the years trying to think of ways to let other parents whose child is born with a special need. Our baby was adopted at birth. Against all odds, Becka was not supposed to survive the first 24 hours of her life. With a lot of love and prayers I would not take no for an answer.

Rebecca has brought so much happiness, joy and most of all, love to her father and myself. She is the life that I LIVE and she is EVERY breath that I take and I breathe. For all of you who feel that God has done you wrong, you CAN make it RIGHT by having all of the joy, love and happiness...