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"A full-length account of the author's prize-winning New York Times story chronicles the exploitation and abuse case of a group of developmentally disabled workers, who for 25 years, were forced to work under harrowing conditions for virtually no wages until tenacious advocates helped them achieve their freedom."--
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Publisher:
Policy Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability. Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, especially since the inclusion of psychosocial disability...
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date:
©2017
Language:
English
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Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence,...
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Pub. Date:
2006
Language:
English
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When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a seven-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own. Narrated by Aaron's son Mac, When Madeline Was Young chronicles the Maciver family through the decades, from Mac's childhood growing up in Wisconsin with...
13. My friend Jacob
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Publisher:
Dutton
Pub. Date:
[1980]
Language:
English
Description:
A young boy tells about Jacob, who, though older and mentally slower, helps him a lot and is his very best friend.
16. Where's Chimpy?
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Publisher:
A. Whitman
Pub. Date:
1988
Lexile measure:
500L
Language:
English
Description:
Text and photographs show Misty, a little girl with Down's syndrome, and her father reviewing her day's activities in their search for her stuffed monkey.
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Lexile measure:
910L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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From the Publisher: With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors...
19. Charly
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Publisher:
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2004]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
A mentally retarded man becomes a genius after experimental brain surgery, developing a romance with his former special-education teacher before lapsing back into retardation.
20. Dumb and dumber
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Publisher:
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2005]
Language:
English
Description:
Comedy about a pair of dim-witted friends on a cross-country trip to return a case full of money.