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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with disability
Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) or a suspected
diagnosis often have hidden needs that go unmet by public services.
This book describes and analyses the Kent ASC enablement approach,
a short-term intervention led by occupational therapy to promote
people with ASC becoming more self-aware and self-sufficient
outside of public services. Designed to teach adults with ASC
strategies for controlling their sensory, motor-processing and
social-communication needs and preferences, this person-centred
approach gives them greater self-management over their lives. The
book also provides an overview of a range of both professional and
self-help tools and technologies which can be used by adults with
ASC to increase independence and wellbeing. Case-studies
demonstrate the transformative effects of enablement on daily life
for adults with ASC. The book also provides recommendation for
building on the enablement approach.
Unblinded is the true story of New Yorker Kevin Coughlin, who
became blind at age thirty-six due to a rare genetic disorder known
as Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. Twenty years later, without
medical intervention, Kevin's sight miraculously started to return.
He is the only known person in the world who has experienced a
spontaneous, non-medically assisted, regeneration of the optic
nerve. Unblinded follows Kevin's descent into darkness, and his
unexplained reemergence to sight.
Recommended and endorsed by international author and speaker, Josh
McDowell and his wife Dottie, Pastor Rick Warren, Saddleback Church
and Danae Dobson of Focus on the Family Ministries. A moving and
very inspirational true story, clearly and passionately shared, by
Jessica's Dad. He honestly shares the ups and downs of his family,
as they, quite unexpectedly, began grappling with every parent's
worst nightmare. Since that frosty Halloween night, when Jim's wife
Rene quietly whispered with tears in her eyes, "Something is wrong
with Jessica," they have been shaken to the very roots of their
faith, found healing and victory, as they all 'grew up with
Jessica.' You will experience, their breath taking roller coaster
ride, of tragedy, love, hope and faith and emerge touched and
inspired. This is a heartwarming book where faith overcomes
tragedy.
Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between
author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten-year span
of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a
dog to new places in the world and new places in the self, a book
about facing life's challenges outwardly and within, and about
reading those clues-those deeply felt signals-that can help guide
the way. It is also, more broadly, about the importance of intimate
connection in human-animal relationships, academic work, and
personal life. In her previous book, Traveling Blind: Adventures in
Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side, Krieger focused on her first
two years with Teela, her lively Golden Retriever-Yellow Labrador.
Come, Let Me Guide You continues the narrative, beginning at the
moment the author must confront Teela's retirement and then
reflecting on the entire span of their relationship. These
emotionally moving stories offer the reader personal entree into a
life of increasing pleasure and insight as Krieger describes how
her relationship with her guide dog has had far-reaching effects,
not only on her abilities to navigate the world while blind, but
also on her writing and teaching, her ability to face loss, and her
sense of self. Come, Let Me Guide You is an invaluable contribution
to the literature on human-animal communication and on the
guide-dog-human experience, as well as to disability and feminist
ethnographic studies. It shows how a relationship with a guide dog
is unique among bonds, for it rests upon highly regulated
connections yet touches deep emotional chords. For Krieger, those
chords have resulted in these memorable stories, often humorous and
playful, always instructive, and generative of broader insight.
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