Extraordinary people with disabilities / by Deborah Kent, Kathryn A. Quinlan.
Kent, Deborah.; Quinlan, Kathryn A.
1996
HV1552.3 .K45 1996 (Mapit)
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Title Extraordinary people with disabilities / by Deborah Kent, Kathryn A. Quinlan.
Author Kent, Deborah.
ISBN 0516200216
Publication Details New York : Children's Press, c1996.
Language English
Description 288 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HV1552.3 .K45 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.4/092/2 B
Summary Profiles seven dozen people throughout history with various physical or mental disabilities. Additional articles provide historical background on the disability rights movement.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index.
Added Author Quinlan, Kathryn A.
Series Extraordinary people
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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John Milton
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thaddeus Stevens
Louis Braille
Harriet Tubman
John Wesley Powell
Thomas Edison
Juliette Gordon Low
Helen Keller
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Horace Pippin
Dorothea Lange
Frida Kahlo
Sir Douglas Bader
Jacobus tenBroek
Harold Russell
The fight for disability rights legislation
Bill Veeck
Alicia Alonso
Roy Campanella
Robert Dole
Daniel Inouye
John Langston Gwaltney
Christy Brown
Beverly Butler
Audre Lorde
Ed Roberts
Henry Kisor
Wilma Rudolph
The challenge of sports
Stephen Hawking
I. King Jordan
Judi Chamberlin
Wilma Mankiller
Itzhak Perlman
Patty Duke
Harilyn Rousso
For the disabled, of the disabled
Temple Grandin
Judy Heumann
Stevie Wonder
John Callahan
The right to live, the right to die
Susan Nussbaum
John Hockenberry
Tom Cruise
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Chris Burke
Disabled students in the mainstream
Marlee Matlin
Jean Driscoll
Jim Abbott
Heather Whitestone
To find a way or to make one : technological aids for the disabled.

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