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Almost Like A Song
by Ronnie Milsap Tom CarterRonnie Milsap, a legend in country music, shares the story of his life including the obstacles and opportunities created by his blindness. He describes his childhood in the rural south and gives an insider's view of life at a school for the blind. He chronicles his entry into country music and shares stories about his travels.
Laughter in Darkness
by Robert O'Neil BristowMitchell Ashley, who lost his sight due to iritis four years ago, is determined to be independent and not to be a burden on others. However, his bravado gets him into one scrape after another. Mitchell rewards his guide dog with bowls of beer and entertains a stream of female companions in the bedroom of the apartment which he shares with his friend Hubert. Georgia, his reader and lover, longs for a committed relationship with Mitchell, but it doesn't seem possible.
Love on a Leash
by Liz PalikaFrom the Book jacket: Can my dog do therapy work? * Who can train a therapy dog? What does the owner need to know? How can my dog become certified? What problems am I likely to encounter? *Should our facility have its own resident therapy pet? If you have been asking some of these questions, Love On A Leash is the book for you! Liz Palika is an expert on dogs, training, and therapy work. 'Through her efforts thousands of people have been touched with canine affection. Now she shares that experience. Love on a Leash gives you all the tips, methods, and techniques for choosing, training, and working with a therapy dog, as well as telling you how to make your visit a success. You just may discover that you have a four-footed therapist waiting to share miraculous canine love!
Gallaudet: Friend of the Deaf
by Etta DegeringOn a May day in 1814, while watching his younger brothers and sisters at play, Thomas noticed a small girl taking no part. She was Alice Cogswell, and deafness shut her out of the circle. The lack of language created a barrier between her and her friends. Thomas invented a game that helped Alice for the first time in her life to understand that things have names. Thomas knew what he could do. He knew he had to bring education for the deaf to America!
The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses (revised edition)
by Rusell Friedman John W. Jamesare you suffering from grief and pain from loss? This book will help you move through the pain and look forward
WASSP: The Wright & Ayre Stuttering Self-Rating Profile
by Louise Wright Anne AyreThe authors describe WASSP and give sample profiles of WASSP.
The Bible Cure for Back Pain
by Don ColbertIf you have back pain, your body may be trying to tell you something. In this easy-to-read little book, you'll discover physical conditions and spiritual roots that may be contributing to your discomfort. Learn how to take care of your spine as you apply these proven strategies and God-breathed answers for eliminating your back pain. You want to be healthy. God wants you to be healthy. Now at last here's a source of information that will help you get healthy--body, mind and spirit.
A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger--A Resource Book for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers
by Eliane Whitehouse Warwick PutneyFrom the book jacket: Children often have problems with anger. Teachers often have problems with anger. Parents often have problems with anger. Why? Because we're afraid of anger. It may mean that someone is out of our control. It may mean that someone won't like us. It may mean that someone acts violently. This book is about living successfully, healthily, happily, nonviolently, with motivation, without fear and with good relationships. An accessible resource book for teachers, parents and all who care for children, it is full of stories, and easy-to-use games and exercises designed to encourage children to see their anger and to deal constructively with it. A Volcano in My Tummy includes sections on key concepts, building a child's self esteem, what adults can do when a child is angry, developing an anger management program, troubleshooting, and a special section for teachers that integrates the resource with other curriculum areas. Exercises are clearly described, indicating appropriate age levels, teaching strategies, materials and procedures to follow, with worksheets for the childrens' use. All are easily adaptable for use by teachers, parents or other caregivers.
Braillables: A Manual for Parents and Teachers - Techniques for Teaching Drawing with Braille
by Marie PorterFrom the book: Braillables are pictures that are brailled by people who are able to braille them. They are outlines, sketches, sculptures, drawings, artwork. They are a creative expression that uses a necessary skill of blind people. They are fun to do, easily shared by sighted people, and they give an added dimension of freedom in using what can be a very rigid mode of communication. Blind people can draw in a medium over which they have complete control. Drawing with braille builds skill in reading, in interpreting charts, maps, diagrams, math and science figures. For those who pursue it, drawing with braille encourages imagination, creativity, a feeling for abstraction, perspective and proportion--all elements necessary for good concepts of objects, spatial relationships, and, ultimately, skill in orientation and mobility. Braille has an aura of mystery about it which isolates the reader. It can be austere, unpenetrable, a symbol of struggle and pain both for the blind person and for the family and friends. There is a coming together, a sharing, a breaking down of barriers when two heads bend over a picture of a dog and both the blind person and the sighted person see it as a dog. That is the fun of it.
Your Hour
by M. RaymondFather Raymond, a Trappist monk, tells several stories of people who have always had deep faith in God's love and mercy, or who have come to know God through suffering and meditation. Each story is a beautiful and thought-provoking meditation on life and the afterlife.
Zack's Tales: Travels of a Guide Dog
by Audrey M. GunterLearn how a handsome yellow lab changes the life of his mom and the impact they make on society. Learn how guide dogs are specially bred, born, raised and trained and how they are matched with their new handlers. Live life as a visually impaired person, always asked to explain your need for a guide dog and required to carry your own copy of the Civil Rights law that guarantees your access. Learn how a wonderful, permanent bond is formed between Zack and his mom as they travel together becoming advocates for the blind. Feel their love for each other as they laugh, play, cry and work together.
Skipper The Guide Dog
by Arthur C. BartlettThis is the first known book to be published on guide dogs in the United States. Ben's brother Jerry lives dangerously. He flies his little yellow plane and works for the Secret Service. But when an accident robs him of his vision, Ben thinks that a guide dog might be the ticket to get Jerry back into good spirits. The book follows their training and on with the story. Jerry and Ben get wind of a counterfeiting ring in their town. Does Jerry, with Skipper at his side, still have what it takes to be a Secret Service man? Can they capture the crooks?
Students Who Drive You Crazy
by Jeffrey A. KottlerOutlines strategies teachers can use to succeed with difficult and hard to motivate young people.
The Challenge of Epilepsy: Take Control of Your Seizures-and Your Life-through Complementary and Alternative Solutions
by Sally FletcherDescribes alternative methods of controlling epilepsy
Is It Me or My Meds: Living with Antidepressants
by David A. KarpThis book gives voice to those who are depressed and to those who use medications so that they are not depressed. Full of useful information.
Of Beatles and Angels: a Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to harvard
by Mawi Asgedom Dave BergerMawi Asgedom moved from a Sudanese refugee camp to Chicago when he was three years old. His father, formerly a doctor in Ethiopia had to do back-breaking work in order to support his family, but he always encouraged the author to dream and to educate himself. After years of struggle, he was accepted with a scholarship to Harvard University. Includes recipes. An excellent biography for young readers.
Handbook for Itinerant and Resource Teachers of Blind and Visually Impaired Students
by Doris Willoughby Sharon DuffyProvides suggestions for teachers of the visually impaired
Cockeyed: A Memoir
by Ryan KnightonThis memoir chronicles Knighton's struggle to cope with his blindness. While preferring to pretend to be sighted, he has many misadventures. Sometimes we laugh; sometimes we cry; always we cheer him on and hope that he will reach a point of acceptance and competence.
Deaf-Blind Interpreting Workbook: Student Readings and Worksheets
by Mary Bauer Karen Chriest Stueland Jackie Engler-Morris Janie Neal Jelica Nuccio Cynthia WallaceThis workbook was put together to cover basic Deaf-Blind interpreting techniques. Over the past years, the Seattle Deaf-Blind Community has shaped this class and the workbook has evolved.
The Stolen Light
by Ved MehtaThe author recounts his experiences as a blind college student, and tells how he came to write his first book.
Independent Living: Assessment & Ongoing Evaluation for Independent Living
by Texas School for the Blind and Visually ImpairedAssessment & Ongoing Evaluation for Independent Living <P><P> A Curriculum with Adaptations for Students with Visual Impairments
The Aluminum Turtle (Duncan Maclain Mystery #11)
by Baynard KendrickDuncan Maclain is in Tampa with his wife, Sybella, and his partner, Spud Savage and his wife, Rena, to visit with old friends and investigate a murder. It has been seven years since his old friend, Ronald Dayland, Sr. had been murdered. The killer had never been brought to justice and his wife has remarried...to Jack Manning. Baynard Kendrick has been largely forgotten, but he was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America. He worked with the blind for years, and created the blind private investigator, Captain Duncan Maclain, to prove that blind folks weren't completely helpless, like most folks believed.
Clear and Present Danger (Duncan Maclain Mystery #10)
by Baynard KendrickFrom the book jacket: Baynard Kendrick has returned to the Crime Club, bringing his famous and amazing blind detective with him-which is a promise that more stories of this favorite sleuth are coming. Absorbed in a chess game, Captain Duncan Maclain was unaware he was being watched by a thickset foreigner--which was a strange state of affairs, for Duncan's acute sensitivity usually compensated for his blindness. In any event, Duncan could not have known of the machinations that were suddenly to involve him in a plot as explosive as uranium and as exciting as a ticking geiger counter. That knowledge only came as he sat in a hospital ... and a man's breathing was silenced in a manner that put Duncan in a clear and present danger.
Angel Unaware
by Dale Evans RogersRobin Rogers tells the story of her two years on earth, and how she helped her parents, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Rogers, toward a firm faith.
The Sound of the Walls
by Jacob TwerskyAs a small child in Poland, Jacob Twersky contracted an illness which left him almost totally blind. His parents hoped that a doctor in the United States could restore their son's sight, and this hope spurred them to emigrate in the mid-1920s. Twersky describes his childhood in Poland and Brooklyn, his years attending a resource room for blind children and a regular high school, and his eventual decision to enroll at a school for the blind. His struggle to accept his blindness is a theme throughout the book, threading its way through his college years, his struggle to find a teaching position, and his courtship and marriage.