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Caregiving [videorecording] / by Aduba, Uzo,narrator.; Durrance, Chris,television director.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Uzo Aduba, narrator.This is the story of a group of paid and unpaid caregivers navigating the ups and downs of this deeply challenging and immensely meaningful work. Intertwining intimate personal stories with the untold history of caregiving, the documentary reveals both the state and the stakes of care in America today. Malcoma Brown- Ekeogu devotes herself to her husband's care in the final stages of his illness, even when she feels alone in the journey. As the home health aide to Sherril Johnson, who has multiple sclerosis, Zulma Torres provides care with the same kindness that she would for a family member. Matt Cauli juggles care for his young son with care for his wife, Kanlaya, in the wake of a health crisis keeping the family together against the odds. Kim and Guillaume Olloz raise a disabled daughter in a world not built for people with disabilities in a home filled with love and care. Tracy Eacret experiences the laughter and the tears of a bittersweet season with her father as his end-of-life caregiver. And the Gutierrez family contends with a chronic illness that makes a caregiver out of their tender-hearted 14-year-old son.E.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 2.0 stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Care of the sick.; Caregivers; Children with disabilities; Kinship care.; Male caregivers.; Parents of children with disabilities.; Women caregivers.;
For private home use only.

Precious cargo : my year driving the kids on school bus 3077 / by Davidson, Craig,1976-author.;
Subjects: Davidson, Craig, 1976-; Bus drivers; Children with disabilities; Children with disabilities; School buses.; Students with disabilities; Authors, Canadian (English);

Ali and the sea stars / by Stroker, Ali,1987-; Reid, Gillian,1986-;
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Subjects: Children with disabilities; Musicals; Theater; Friendship; Families;

The out-of-sync child grows up : coping with sensory processing disorder in the adolescent and young adult years / by Kranowitz, Carol Stock.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Sensory integration dysfunction; Sensory integration dysfunction in children; Children with social disabilities;

Harley the hero / by Collins, Peggy.;
Harley is a service dog to elementary school teacher Ms. Prichard, who needs a quiet, orderly environment. One of her students, Amelia, has auditory sensitivities of her own. When a small fire throws the class into chaos, Harley must help Ms. Prichard--but he's also the only one who can convince Amelia to come out of hiding.LSC
Subjects: Service dogs; Children with disabilities; Teachers with disabilities; Elementary schools;

Just ask! : be different, be brave, be you / by Sotomayor, Sonia,1954-; López, Rafael,1961-;
In this creative non-fiction story, Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a book that celebrates the many differences among humans. In this warm and inclusive story by U.S. Supreme Justice Sonia Sotomayor, inspired by her own childhood diagnosis of diabetes, readers join along as differently abled kids use their strengths to work together and learn about each other.LSC
Subjects: Children with disabilities; Disabilities; Individuality; Cooperativeness; Gardens; Friendship;

The theory of hummingbirds / by Kadarusman, Michelle,1969-;
Alba was born with her left foot twisted in the wrong direction. After one final surgery and one final cast, Alba is going to run in the sixth grade cross-country race. However, her best friend Levi thinks there's no way she can pull it off.LSC
Subjects: Clubfoot; Children with disabilities; Cross-country running; Friendship; Schools;

The home children : their personal stories / by Harrison, Phyllis,1918-;
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Subjects: Children with social disabilities; Children with social disabilities; Foster children; Home children (Canadian immigrants); Child labor;
© 2003, c1979., J. Gordon Shillingford Pub.,

Parenting through the storm : how to handle the highs, the lows, and everything in between / by Douglas, Ann,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Child psychology.; Children with mental disabilities; Developmentally disabled children; Families of the mentally ill.; Parenting.;

My own blood : a memoir / by Bristowe, Ashley,author.;
"When their second child, Alexander, is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, doctors tell Ashley Bristowe and her husband that the boy won't walk, or even talk--that he is profoundly disabled. Stunned and reeling, Ashley researches a disorder so new it's just been named--Kleefstra Syndrome--and she finds little hope and a maze of obstacles. Then she comes across the US-based 'Institutes, ' which have been working to improve the lives of brain-injured children for decades. Recruiting volunteers, organizing therapy, juggling a million tests and appointments, even fundraising as the family falls deep into debt, Ashley devotes years of 24/7 effort to running an impossibly rigorous diet and therapy programme for their son with the hope of saving his life, and her own. The ending is happy: he will never be a 'normal' boy, but Alexander talks, he walks, he swims, he plays the piano (badly) and he goes to school. This victory isn't clean and it's far from pretty; the personal toll on Ashley is devastating. 'It takes a village, ' people say, but too much of their village is uncomfortable with her son's difference, the therapy regimen's demands and the family's bottomless need. The health and provincial services bureaucracy set them a maddening set of hoops to jump through, showing how disabled children and their families languish because of criminally low expectations about what can be done to help. My Own Blood is an uplifting story, but it never shies away from the devastating impact of a baby that science couldn't predict and medicine couldn't help. It's the story of a woman who lost everything she'd once been--a professional, an optimist, a joker, a capable adult--in sacrifice to her son. An honest account of a woman's life turned upside down."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Bristowe, Ashley; Bristowe, Ashley.; Children with disabilities; Children with disabilities; Children with disabilities; Children with disabilities; Families.; Mothers of children with disabilities; Parents of children with disabilities;