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2012. Hazel Grace Lancaster Augustus Waters and several other characters. The Fault in our Stars. John Green. The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg. 2015. Kaz Brekker. Six of Crows. Leigh Bardugo.
A social narrative is an evidence-based [1] learning tool designed for use with people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other associated disabilities. Social narratives often use personalized stories to teach a skill, identify a situation, or tell a narrative; some examples of social narratives may cover topics such as getting along with ...
Disability. Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability", where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct. [1]
Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder [2] and learning disability that concerns impairments in written expression, which affects the ability to write, primarily handwriting, but also coherence. It is a specific learning disability (SLD) as well as a transcription disability, meaning that it is a writing disorder associated with impaired ...
In 1986, the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) was put into force in the United States, which ended the exclusion of children with disabilities from publicly funded school systems. With the integration of children with disabilities into public schools, a new interest arose in representing disabled people in children's books.
Iris is a 2001 biographical drama film about novelist Iris Murdoch and her relationship with her husband John Bayley. Directed by Richard Eyre from a screenplay he co-wrote with Charles Wood, the film is based on Bayley's 1999 memoir Elegy for Iris. [3] Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent portray Murdoch and Bayley during the later stages of their ...
Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, and SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual differences, disabilities, and special needs. This involves the individually planned and systematically ...
Phamaly Theatre Company (formerly the Physically Handicapped Actors & Musical Artists League or PHAMALy ), also known as just Phamaly (as in "family"), is a theater group and touring company based in Denver, Colorado, formed entirely of people with disabilities from across the spectrum. [1] Phamaly was founded in 1989 by five people living with ...