Disabilities In Society And Biography

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  Abandoned to Their Fate

  Do you know where the phrase “ship of fools” comes from, or the origin of the word “bedlam?” Find out in this social documentary.Beginning in the Middle Ages, this program traces the origins of our social stereotypes and exclusionary practices toward people with disabilities. Drawing from scholarly records, institutional archives, original photography and popular media, the program focuses on the moral, aesthetic and economic policies that shaped the lives of people with disabilities.Audience–
  • Special education teachers and support staff

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  Aidan’s Way

  This life we’re given comes in its own season and then follows its vanishing away. If you’re at ease in your season, if you can dwell in its vanishing, joy and sorrow never touch you. This is what the ancients called getting free.–Chuang TzuAidan’s crisis had liberated me in a way. We had come close to death, had looked over the edge of the precipice, and then moved back. He would die at some point, perhaps young, maybe very young. He was profoundly disabled, even more so than he had been before. But his near-death had altered my vision.

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  ARTS

  NEW from Keri Bowers! Painting, drawing, writing, music, drama and other forms of arts are expressed beautifully by and through individuals with disabilities in Keri Bower’s new film, ARTS.

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  Autobiography of a Face

  “I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I’ve spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.”At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates.

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  Career Counseling & Hidden Disabilities

  An educational DVD for college and career counselors serving autistic spectrum, attention deficit, learning, and pervasive mood Challenges.This presentation is designed for career, college, and high school counselors. Individuals with Hidden Disabilities provide a unique challenge to career counselors: typically average or high average intelligence, with a specific disability that impacts a person’s ability to navigate the working world.

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  Career Success of Disabled High Flyers

  Career Success of Disabled High-Flyers challenges the assumption that disabled employees are a homogenous group and discusses important questions such as: What is disability? How do people with physical impairments define success? Does gender impact in the same way on disabled and non-disabled people’s careers?

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  Devoted:

  The remarkable story of a father’s devotion to his wheelchair-bound son and how their bond inspired millions of people worldwide.Born a spastic quadraplegic, Rick Hoyt was written off by numerous doctors. They advised his parents, Dick and Judy, to put their firstborn son in an institution. But Rick’s parents refused. Determined to give their son every opportunity that “normal” kids had, they made sure to include Rick in everything they did, especially with their other two sons, Rob and Russ.But home was one thing, the world at large, another.

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  Forgotten Crimes

  This book explores the development and workings of the “euthanasia” programs, a relatively neglected aspect of the Holocaust. Essential reading…. Without knowing our own history, we cannot fully comprehend the depths of prejudices that…define disability today.–Laurence Paradis, Disability Rights Advocates224 pages. 2004

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  Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the Story of the Seeing Eye

  Mention the words “Seeing Eye,” and most people will associate them with guide dogs for the blind and partially-sighted. Mention the name “Dorothy Harrison Eustis,” and most people will not recognize it, even though she is the woman responsible for founding The Seeing Eye, the first guide dog school in the United States. Since its inception eighty years ago, The Seeing Eye has trained thousands of people who are visually impaired to use guide dogs.

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