Disability Awareness

Shooting Beauty, Everyone Deserves A Shot

Location:

Lending Library, Danvers, DVD 163

Notes:

Aspiring fashion photographer Courtney Bent's career takes a life-changing turn when she discovers a hidden world of beauty at a center for people living with significant disabilities. When she begins inventing cameras her new friends can use, a story unfolds that will make you rethink what it means to live with a disability - and without one. (From the back of the DVD)

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Disability Awareness

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Dreams Spoken Here: Full Version

Author:

Oberkotter Foundation

Publisher:

Oberkotter Foundation

Type:

Video

ID:

3862

Price:

$0.00

Location:

None

Notes:

This film features children who are deaf and hard of hearing.The film demonstrates how the children are being taught to speak and listen. The individuals featured in this film are examples of children who are deaf/hard of hearing who are overcoming their challenges and reaching their dreams.

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ADA Technical Assistance

Author:

None

Publisher:

US Dept. of Justice; (07/2001)

Type:

CD-ROM

ID:

3635

Price:

$0.00

Location:

Reference-Misc

Notes:

CD-ROM of ADA regulations, standards for accessible design, technical assistance manuals/documents.

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Trevor Trevor

Author:

Twachtman, Diane Cullen

Publisher:

Starfish Press; (1998)

Type:

Book

ID:

3625

Price:

$15.00

Location:

Lending Library; Danvers

Notes:

Book is designed to enable typical peers to see things from a different perspective and to become more sensitive towards classmates with differences. This book should be read to children by adults.

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Kids Helping Kids

Author:

Mass Teachers Assoc.

Publisher:

Mass. Arc and Mass. Teachers Association

Type:

Article

ID:

2103

Price:

$0.00

Location:

CLASS 05

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Teaching Children About Differences: Resources for Teaching

Author:

Sapon-Shevin, Mara

Publisher:

Journal of Young Children January 1983

Type:

Article

ID:

2145

Price:

$0.00

Location:

CLASS 11

Notes:

Various curricula and books that focus on teaching children positive, appropriate responses to developmental differences are reviewed. Most material focuses on elementary age children.

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