Stories
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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“People see the disability but forget the ability”
I’m a disabled Asian woman, and mother of four. I’m trying to show people that we have to talk about disability if we want things to change.
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Abandoning daydreams of a life without diabetes
After years of longing for a cure for her type 1 diabetes, Daisy Watson Shaw, partly due to medical advances in managing the condition, has reached a state of acceptance. Her wishes now are for greater understanding.
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How my wheelchair changed my life
A young woman diagnosed with a disabling condition found her world shrank without the mobility aids she needed to get outside. Finally facing the stigma around using a wheelchair transformed her everyday life.
Catalogue
- Books
The incomplete child : an intellectual history of learning disabilities / Scot Danforth.
Danforth, Scot.Date: [2009], ©2009- Videos
Disowned and disabled. 1/2, Nowhere else to go.
Date: 2013- Books
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Backward and feeble-minded children : clincial studies in the psychology of defectives, with a syllabus for the clinical examination and testing of children / by Edmund Burke Huey.
Huey, Edmund Burke, 1870-1913.Date: 1912- Books
The mentally defective child : written specially for school teachers and others interested in the educational treatment and after-care of mentally defective school children / by Meredith Young.
Young, Meredith, 1870-Date: 1916- Books
The special child / Barbara Furneaux.
Furneaux, Barbara.Date: 1969