Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> People with Disabilities

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...

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...

Worth Saving is about what one family went through while raising a special-needs child--the humor, the tragedy, and the instance of not knowing what to do when all hope is lost. Where do we turn to when it seems that the world has turned against a five-year-old boy? What happens to the family dynamics? How does a marriage survive, and what does one do with the other child? What do the in-laws and grandparents think?

Many people try to tell you how to discipline your child even though they don't know him or us. How we learned what types of discipline works and what does not.

The Real Antonette Come Forth series walks you through the life of Antonette Smith. This book series chronicles the life of a girl from age 5 to 39. She has suffered physical, mental, emotional, and drug abuse. She has cheated death and lived to tell her story. If you have been molested, if you have been raped, if you have been in an abusive relationship, if you have run for your life, if you have been rejected, if you have been abandoned, if you have been looked over, if you are a teen parent, if you are a confused teen, if you suffer from false identity, if you suffer from hurt and pain,...