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The Mitten String
by Kristina Swarner Jennifer RosnerAn original Jewish folktale about a girl who knits, a deaf woman, and a piece of blue yarn. When her family invites a deaf woman and her baby to stay, Ruthie, a talented knitter of mittens, wonders how the mother will know if her child wakes in the night. The surprising answer inspires Ruthie to knit a special gift that offers great comfort to mother and baby--and to Ruthie herself. With language and imagery reminiscent of stories told long ago, this modern Jewish folktale will resonate with those who love crafts, anyone who's encountered someone who is physically challenged--and with everyone who has ever lost a mitten in the depths of winter.
Mitzi Mufflin: Principal for a Day (The Potts-Abilities)
by Liz CooperWhen new student Mitzi Mufflin, who happens to be blind, joins the gang at Mortimer Potts Elementary School, she’s thrilled to named Principal for a Day. Little does she know, the real principal and teachers will disappear! <p><p>Can Principal Mufflin and her pint-sized “staff” secretly run the school until the teachers return? Join Mitzi as she navigates her way through each new challenge to save the school from disaster, using resourcefulness, determination, and her cane, Tappity. Mitzi is confident in her abilities. She proves to us all, that if everyone were exactly the same, it would be a very boring world. <p><p>This book is the second in a series by Liz Cooper featuring resilient young characters dealing with unique challenges.
Mobile Learning for All: Supporting Accessibility With the iPad
by Luis PérezThis book provides practical information for teachers and other educational professionals who want to learn how to use the iPad to meet the needs of all learners.
Mobility Training for Visually Handicapped People: A Person Centered Approach
by Allan DoddsThis is one of the first works to begin formalizing the structured discovery method of O&M instruction.
Mockingbird
by Kathryn Erskine<P>Caitlin has Asperger's. The world according to her is black and white; anything in between is confusing. <P>Before, when things got confusing, Caitlin went to her older brother, Devon, for help. But Devon was killed in a school shooting, and Caitlin's dad is so distraught that he is just not helpful. <P>Caitlin wants everything to go back to the way things were, but she doesn't know how to do that. Then she comes across the word closure--and she realizes this is what she needs. <P>And in her search for it, Caitlin discovers that the world may not be so black and white after all.<P><P> <b>Winner of the National Book Award</b>
Modeling Sensorineural Hearing Loss
by Walt JesteadtA recent study indicates that 20 million people in the United States have significant sensorineural hearing loss. Approximately 95% of those people have partial losses, with varying degrees of residual hearing. These percentages are similar in other developed countries. What changes in the function of the cochlea or inner ear cause such losses? What does the world sound like to the 19 million people with residual hearing? How should we transform sounds to correct for the hearing loss and maximize restoration of normal hearing? Answers to such questions require detailed models of the way that sounds are processed by the nervous system, both for listeners with normal hearing and for those with sensorineural hearing loss. This book contains chapters describing the work of 25 different research groups. A great deal of research in recent years has been aimed at obtaining a better physiological description of the altered processes that cause sensorineural hearing loss and a better understanding of transformations that occur in the perception of those sounds that are sufficiently intense that they can still be heard. Efforts to understand these changes in function have lead to a better understanding of normal function as well. This research has been based on rigorous mathematical models, computer simulations of mechanical and physiological processes, and signal processing simulations of the altered perceptual experience of listeners with sensorineural hearing loss. This book provides examples of all these approaches to modeling sensorineural hearing loss and a summary of the latest research in the field.
Moderate Learning Difficulties and the Future of Inclusion
by Brahm Norwich Narcie KellyChildren with mild to moderate learning difficulties (MLD) make up the largest sub-group of children requiring special educational needs, and yet they are often neglected in terms of research and in their influence on future Government policies. This book, based on a Nuffield Foundation research project, considers the perspectives of children with moderate learning difficulties, reviewing relevant issues such as:* identification of children with MLD;* appropriate curriculum and pedagogy;* inclusion in mainstream schools; * their identity and self-perception.The authors weave their findings into a wider review of current research in the MLD field and use a range of perspectives, from the professional, to psychological and sociological.This is a contemporary look at MLD that discusses the historical and policy context , origins and justification for having a category for MLD. Students, researchers, and academics that are active in the field of inclusive education will find this an insightful and comprehensive text.
Modular Instruction for Independent Travel for Students Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired: Preschool Through High School
by Doris M. Willoughby Sharon L. MontheiModular Instruction For Independent Travel For Students Who Are Blind Or Visually Impaired: Preschool Through High School is a flexible, practical guide for teaching cane travel to students of preschool age through high school.
Moho Wat: Sheepeater Boy Attempts a Rescue (Amazing Indian Children Ser. #6)
by Kenneth ThomasmaMoho Wat is from the Sheepeater tribe that lives in the mountains of what is now Yellowstone Park. Life is hard for the nine-year-old after a terrible struggle with a mountain lion causes him to lose his left hand. Although devastated, Moho Wat struggles to overcome his injury and teach himself to hunt--using his feet to hold the bow and arrow. His courage and strength is tested when he attempts to rescue the beautiful Wind Flower, who has been taken captive by an enemy tribe. Moho Wat realizes he has succeeded when his father says, "My son, today you have proved that you are as good as any man. You have shown your bravery and your goodness. I am proud of you my son, Moho Wat." Author Kenneth Thomasma is a professional storyteller and writing workshop leader living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Moho Wat is the sixth book in his series, "Amazing Indian Children." More of the books in the Amazing Indian Children series are in Bookshare's library. Look for Naya Nuki Shoshoni Girl Who Ran, Om-kas-toe Blackfoot twin captures Elkdog and Pathki Nana Kootenae Girl Solves A Mystery.
Mojo The Blind Friesian
by Laura BeemanThis is the true story of Mojo a blind friesian horse who overcame many obsticles to become a member of a quadrille. He used his other senses to move around his environment.
Molly The Pony: A True Story
by Pam KasterMolly the pony waits. She waits in her stall. She waits during the storm. She waits for her owner to return. So begins the true story of a patient pony who is rescued from a south Louisiana barn after Hurricane Katrina and finds a new life on a farm with new animal friends. But Molly's tale of courage does not end here. When a dog on the farm attacks Molly, her front leg is badly injured. For a pony, a damaged leg is life threatening. To the amazement of veterinarians, though, Molly rises to her new challenge. She undergoes a rare surgery for horses: amputation of her front leg. Now fitted with a prosthetic limb, Molly relearns how to walk and embarks again on a new mission in life: making new people friends. This plucky pony's story of survival and friendship will win the hearts of readers young and old. All who have had to start over after displacement, abandonment, injury, or amputation will find a friend in Molly as they follow her story of bringing a smile to everyone she meets.
Moloka'i
by Alan BrennertRachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i. Here her life is supposed to end---but instead she discovers it is only just beginning. With a vibrant cast of vividly realized characters, Moloka'i is the true-to-life chronicle of a people who embraced life in the face of death.
Mom Can't See Me
by Sally Hobart AlexanderNine-year-old Leslie tells how her mom does everyday tasks while being blind, from keeping track of her daughter at nursery school to going to soccer games, to the movies, and canoeing.
Mom, I'm All Right
by Kathleen SandeferThe mother of a fourteen-year-old suicide victim tells her heartrending story and offers advice and warnings to parents of teenagers. Not only is this book for parents or relatives who have experienced the agony of a teen suicide but also for every teacher, principal, pastor, Sunday School teacher, counselor anyone who works in any way with children from elementary school through high school. This book is a reading MUST for every parent who has a child on some type of long term prescribed medication for hyperactivity or any type learning disability, no matter how minor or severe. What the doctors DON'T (or WON'T) tell you is revealed in this shocking account.
Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life Of A Cactus #2)
by Dusti BowlingJust as Aven starts to feel comfortable in Stagecoach Pass, with her friends and schoolmates accustomed to her lack of "armage," everything changes once again. She's about to begin high school with 3,000 new kids to stare at her. And no matter how much Aven tries to play it cool, nothing prepares her for the reality.
"Mommy, What Is Deaf?"
by Nikki Sian-Leigh AksamitThe author of "Mommy, What is Dead?", Nikki Sian-Leigh Aksamit, has added "Mommy, What is Deaf?" as the next book in her "Mommy, What is...?" series. Aimed at preschool age children, "Mommy, What is Deaf?" explains sound, the definition of "deaf", and all the reasons why some people can not hear. With straight forward text, and uncomplicated drawings, young children easily understand how the ears work, and why in some people they do not. Kids are also challenged to "feel" the sounds around them, as deaf people do.
Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott (Disability Histories)
by Kim E. NielsenAnna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life. Kim E. Nielsen explores a life at once irregular and unexceptional. Historical and institutional structures, like her whiteness and laws that liberalized divorce and women's ability to control their property, opened up uncommon possibilities for Ott. Other structures, from domestic violence in the home to rampant sexism and ableism outside of it, remained a part of even affluent women's lives. Money, Marriage, and Madness tells a forgotten story of how the legal and medical cultures of the time shaped one woman—and what her life tells us about power and society in nineteenth century America.
Monica Plum's Horrid Problem: A Story For Children Of Troubled Parents (Helping Children with Feelings)
by Margot Sunderland Nicky ArmstrongThis is a story for children with troubled parents. Monica has a horrid problem. It gets everywhere: into her schoolwork, her dreams, and her ability to make friends. People keep telling her to cheer up. She can't. She feels as if she is carrying around some very heavy luggage. Then one day, a helpful teacher sees how miserable Monica is, and tells her about the knights in the world, who are posing as people. In a whispering wood, Monica finds some of these knights. They teach her how to make her problem far less horrid. In particular they show her how to cope when other people's problems weigh you down and make you feel miserable. Most importantly they show her how to do life well. Monica leaves whispering wood feeling empowered and ready to face what she could not face before.
Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
by Elizabeth BeardenMonstrous Kinds is the first book to explore textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning. Understanding how early modern writers approached disability not only provides more accurate genealogies of disability, but also helps nuance current aesthetic and theoretical disability formulations. The book analyzes the cultural valences of early modern disability across a broad national and chronological span, attending to the specific bodily, spatial, and aesthetic systems that contributed to early modern literary representations of disability. The cross section of texts (including conduct books and treatises, travel writing and wonder books) is comparative, putting canonical European authors such as Castiglione into dialogue with transatlantic and Anglo-Ottoman literary exchange. Bearden questions grand narratives that convey a progression of disability from supernatural marvel to medical specimen, suggesting that, instead, these categories coexist and intersect.
Moonbird Boy
by Abigail PadgettWhile battling her own depressive cycle after her old dog dies, Bo stays in a sub-acute facility out on the Kumeyaay reservation. The facility is run by Indians who specialize in this care. While there, Bo meets and become friends with a schizophrenic young man waiting for his meds to stabilize. He is murdered, but his young son, known as Moonbird is still there. Bo leaves the facility and steps back into her CPS investigative role and becomes involved with murders, the Indian culture, medical mega-business and plots within plots. As usual, just when you think you have it figured out, Padgett surprised you again. Many of the prior characters from the series are not present here. However, Estrella is now pregnant, and there is the continuation of the relationship between Bo and Dr. Andrew LaMarche.
Moonrise: One Family, Genetic Identity, and Muscular Dystrophy
by Penny WolfsonIn this riveting and thought-provoking memoir about her family, her son Ansel, and his progressive disability, Penny Wolfson embarks on a quest that explores special education, giftedness, prenatal testing, and the genes she shares with her mother, sisters, and son. While Moonrise is an eloquent narrative of one family, it also asks profound questions about our genetic selves.
More Alike than Different: My life with Down Syndrome
by David EganIn this inspiring memoir, David Egan tells his own story, authentically describing a life of maximizing his abilities, as he advocates for himself and for all other people with disabilities. This book is yet another first in a life that has seen many firsts, a life buoyed by an optimistic perspective that refuses to be limited by stereotypes and the low expectations of others.
More Attention, Less Deficit: Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD
by Ari TuckmanThis essential guidebook begins by describing how the ADHD brain processes information and how that leads to typical challenges that people with ADHD experience, as well as why certain strategies are effective and others aren't. The book provides an extensive collection of practical strategies to overcome common struggles in the areas of self-esteem, work, relationships, friendships, parenting, and everyday life. It covers everything from time management to getting organized.
More Fun Games and Activities for Children with Dyslexia: How to Learn Smarter with a Dyslexic Brain (Fun Games and Activities for Children with Dyslexia)
by Alais WintonDyslexic teacher Alais Winton is back with all-new games and activities to make learning simple and fun.This inventive and practical workbook is packed with tried-and-tested games and activities to help children aged 7-13 who have dyslexia. It is ideally suited to home-schooling, independent learning, or classroom or small group setting, and includes activities such as The Multiply Matrix Game, Drop the Ball and Number Tag.The book is packed with cartoons, and there's a quiz at the start to help you discover whether you learn best from pictures, movement, socially or through music. You can use this book to find the strategies and activities you enjoy the most, and that support you to learn most effectively. If you have ideas about how you would like to add to the games or invent your own, go for it!With even more engaging activities and updated advice for parents and carers, this is another essential tool for making learning simple and enjoyable.
More Inclusion Strategies That Work!: Aligning Student Strengths With Standards
by Toby J. KartenProvides research-based strategies for identifying and meeting the needs of students with disabilities, links best inclusive practices with content-specific curriculum, and helps educators fulfill IDEA 2004 requirements.