"Carrie Dearborn's no-holds-barred approach to talking about disability wrestles us to the ground from her wheelchair. Surprising, disarming, painful, funny - you'll go through every emotion and reach new understanding as you let go of pre-conceived notions about how to deal with disability, whether you are temporarily abled or not." - Meizhu Lui, Co-Author, The Color of Wealth "Interspersed between the author's accounts of surviving a life-threatening stroke, readers will find useful practical advice for coping with adult onset disability and, more importantly, life outside of the hospital. This book offers sound, practical advice grounded in years of experience from a woman with a terrific sense of humor. The writing is deep enough to be engaging but written in sections brief enough to allow the reader to digest and reflect upon the important concepts presented. While the author claims to have written this book for people who are recovering from similar injuries to her own, their families, and loved ones, I believe it is equally beneficial for health care professionals. Carrie provides important recommendations about interacting with people who are emerging from comas that will help health care professionals understand what is and what is not helpful to their patients. In turn, learning how to provide more sensitive care will reward care providers with that wonderful feeling associated with knowing they have made valuable contributions to someone's health and healing." - Susan Hallenborg Ventura, Director of Clinical Education & Associate Clinical Professor at Northeastern University Topics covered include: Fresh Out of a Coma For Friends and Family Possibilities: Aim High, Start Slow Post-Coma Nightmares and Fresh Losses A Rainbow for the Blues: Why I Like Wheelchairs God's Windows Explained: Dealing with Feelings of Gloom and Doom OK, Feel Good Time: Heroes and Sheroes to Inspire Us Calling All Vegetables: Surpassing Low Expectations Life Threatening Disease Issues A Burden?: Getting Out of the Guilt and Burden Trap How to Almost Die: and Why You Should Stay Alive How to Have Fun in the Hospital Miscellaneous Things Hospital Food: Avoidance Tips How it (Usually) Works: Who's Who in the Hospital Patient's Bill of Rights - My Version What to Anticipate: Small Joys Brain Damage: Journal of my first post-coma year Disability 101: Where to go for Housing, Work and Benefits A Little Street Action Before you go: From Bedsores to Bumpy Roads Survival Tactics You're out Getting Around and other Post-Hospital Challenges State House Nursing Home: Taking Political Action or Making Trouble in My Adopted Home Town Wheelchair Flying: My Favorite Sport The Questions: Q&A with the Author Bibliography Resources

Paul Isaacs was diagnosed with Autism in 2010 and later diagnosed with Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome by James in 2012. He has worked for Autism Oxford since 2010 presenting speeches and training sessions all around the UK. He has currently released his autobiography through Chipmunka entitled "Living Through The Haze." This book explores the visual differences and difficulties Paul has experienced for over 26 years. For Paul it was a moving moment of clarity and realisation when with the correct lenses he looked outside and said "Oh, the tree has a middle bit " James Billett has worked and taught in the field of special education for 30 years and has used the Irlen method with clients across the spectrum of learning differences since 1991.

This book is a guide for parents and teachers to learn efficient and effective ways to heal special needs children now. One in six children has a developmental disability and one in five is neurologically impaired, there is no time to wait for so-called experts to eventually figure out what to do. Time is of the essense and you can use this book to heal these chronically ill children now. This book has specific information to help children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and other special needs, covering what to do about vision issues. allergy issues, learning issues, pain issues, behavior issues, and academics. The book also covers information on how to navigate the educational system from pre-school school through college, vacationing with special needs children, and career ideas for for beyond the school years. A must read for parents and teachers and therapists willing to do the work to do early intervention so that the children will be able to become happy, healthy, independent and self reliant.

"Faced with skyrocketing rates of children with ADHD, dyslexia, allergies, and autism spectrum disorders, there is a growing need for a common sense guide to caring for special needs individuals. Children's health advocate, Shelley Tzorfas, understands the need to tailor solutions to each child's unique challenges and offers practical, down-to-earth advice regarding the day-to-day realities faced by parents caring for children living with these conditions. A broad range of topics are covered including the pluses and minuses of diagnostic pigeonholing, some of the causes of these illnesses, how to understand the unusual behaviors of special needs children, the dangers of overmedicating, and the need for early intervention. Tzorfas offers many practical tips and do-it-yourself strategies for handling the mental, emotional, and medical needs of these children. The book contains important sections on medical therapies that may be beneficial to your child, navigating the educational system to ensure that your child receives the services he or she needs, higher education and career opportunities available to these children, and even a section with tips on how to vacation with your special needs child. Recovering Autism is an excellent resource for educators, healthcare professionals, and all parents of children with special needs." - DR. LARRY MALERBA, DO, DHt, author of Green Medicine: Challenging the Assumptions of Conventional Health Care

Eye problems can be a serious threat to vision if not treated appropriately and in a timely fashion. The most obvious presentation of ocular (eye) trouble is redness and pain of the affected eyes. Health of the eyes and related structures, as well as vision must be taken care of at all times. In the book, you will find brief details of herbs that can be used for eye care. Inexpensive treatments with no side-effects, these methods of herbal remedies are designed for optimum beneficial use and tested innumerable times in actual practice.

Learning to Listen/Listening to Learn is the first comprehensive work to address the systematic development of skills in listening for and interpreting auditory information for students who are blind or visually impaired. Listening skills are a crucial but often-overlooked area of instruction for children who are visually impaired and may have multiple disabilities, essential to literacy, independent travel, and sensory and cognitive development. Chock full of practical strategies, this volume examines the development of and instruction in learning skills at different ages, from infancy through high school. It also addresses listening skills in orientation and mobility and the needs of children with multiple disabilities, hearing impairment, and learning disabilities, as well as English language learners. Appendixes provide a Listening Skills Continuum chart and a checklist to use in assessment.

Sheila Claymore was born with Microcephaly, a genetic defect that causes the cranium to be abnormally small preventing the brain from developing properly. Sheila, as a toddler called herself CiCi because she couldn't pronounce her name. CICi had a loving family who accepted her as she was in spite of her condition and encouraged her from the day she was born. To their joy and to the surprise of the pediatrician caring for her, CiCi defied the many odds stacked against her and was fairly high functioning for someone with Microcephaly. CiCi always tries hard and does her best at every challenge she faces. Follow CiCi's heartwarming life story as she uses her talents to prove to everyone she really is SPECIAL.

Tinnitus is described as the ?perception of noise in the ears or head without there being an outside source.? Tinnitus causes a great deal of anxiety and stress to the sufferer. It can affect people of any age and can take several different forms. The causes of Tinnitus are not widely known and may think that there is no way of managing the condition. This books seeks to explain to the lay person what the condition is, its causes and how it manifests itslelf and how it can be managed. The book also seeks to reassure sufferers that if they seek help they will find there are successful ways in which their Tinnitus may be managed.

On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In "Autopsy of War," the author delivers an unflinching narrative chronicling his four-decade battle with the unseen enemy in his own mind as he struggled with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Parrish examines his Southern Baptist childhood and the profound influence of his father, a fire and brimstone preacher turned Navy chaplain, while offering a candid assessment of the "God and Country" ethos that leads young men to rush wide-eyed into war. He describes the unimaginable carnage and acts of cruelty he witnessed in Vietnam, experiences that shattered his world view leaving him to retreat from his family upon his return stateside. Living virtually homeless at times, he visited veteran shelters and relived the horrors of war in a series of harrowing flashbacks as he dealt with suicidal thoughts. The author writes honestly and probingly of his episodes of infidelity and battles with sex addiction. Readers follow his steady journey toward recovery and his professional contributions in the field of medicine and technology, as well as a joint program with the Boston Red Sox and Massachusetts General Hospital to aid returning veterans. Perhaps most poignantly, Parrish speaks of his quest to discover the identity of one particular solider in Vietnam he could not save--and whose memory has haunted him ever since.

"Autopsy of War" is a soul searching memoir that is both an intensely personal narrative and a universally relevant trip through the world of war and recovery.

Why on earth would anyone title their book "Stick it In Your Ear" anyway? There are three reasons why: Often times when people are confronted about their hearing problem, they will push back, and maybe even tell you to 'stick in your ear'. The irony is that if they would stick it in their ear, that is a precision amplifier (hearing aid), they could improve their life, and the lives of those who communicate with them. The third reason is revealed at the end of the book.

Karen Putz grew up hard of hearing and became deaf as a teen. When her own kids began losing their hearing one by one, she figured she had all the answers. She quickly learned it was a whole other ball game to be a parent of deaf and hard of hearing kids. Karen shares the twists and turns of her journey and the wisdom she's learned along the way.

A practical resource filled with information, tips, and checklists for helping kids with autism

This useful, accessible guide offers teachers and parents a better understanding of children on the autism spectrum and provides them with the kinds of support and intervention they need. Written in an easy-to-read checklist format, the book is filled with up-to-date research, practical advice, and helpful resources on a wide range of topics. The book covers five areas: basic information on autism, checklists for parents, checklists for teachers, effective support strategies, and helpful resources.Provides vital, accessible information for parents and teachers working with children in the autism spectrumContains a wealth of useful strategies, information, and resourcesA volume in the popular Jossey-Bass "Checklist" seriesOffers a comprehensive yet affordable resourceKluth is the bestselling author of "You're Going to Love This Kid : Teaching Students with Autism"

When asked, the one thing most people would least want to lose is their vision. Macular Degeneration is particularly frustrating, because it affects the central vision, so that whatever you look at is distorted or even disappears in a black hole... While recent announcements in the news have brought hope to millions that stem cell injections deep into the eye have now been observed to stimulate regeneration of the macula, potentially restoring functional vision to those blinded by this common condition, the methods outlined in detail in this book have stimulated this kind of healing as well, without any invasive procedures. Such results have been observed independently by two different Harvard trained retinal specialists following Dr. Swartwout's patients after they chose to pursue accelerated self healing with his guidance rather than the medically recommended laser surgery for wet macular degeneration, considered the worst type of maculopathy. Whether you are looking for guidance and direction for self-healing, or additional tools as a physician or natural healer, to prevent vision loss and even help improve the chance of restoring sight to the blind, this is the book you need. It is a comprehensive overview of nature's many healing angels that have already proven helpful in healing macular disease.

During the last ten years so many works have accumulated in the domain of Physics, and so many new theories have been propounded, that those who follow with interest the progress of science, and even some professed scholars, absorbed as they are in their own special studies, find themselves at sea in a confusion more apparent than real. It has therefore occurred to me that it might be useful to write a book which, while avoiding too great insistence on purely technical details, should try to make known the general results at which physicists have lately arrived, and to indicate the direction and import which should be ascribed to those speculations on the constitution of matter, and the discussions on the nature of first principles, to which it has become, so to speak, the fashion of the present day to devote oneself. I have endeavored throughout to rely only on the experiments in which we can place the most confidence, and, above all, to show how the ideas prevailing at the present day have been formed, by tracing their evolution, and rapidly examining the successive transformations which have brought them to their present condition. In order to understand the text, the reader will have no need to consult any treatise on physics, for I have throughout given the necessary definitions and set forth the fundamental facts. Moreover, while strictly employing exact expressions, I have avoided the use of mathematical language. Algebra is an admirable tongue, but there are many occasions where it can only be used with much discretion. Nothing would be easier than to point out many great omissions from this little volume; but some, at all events, are not involuntary. Certain questions which are still too confused have been put on one side, as have a few others which form an important collection for a special study to be possibly made later. Thus, as regards electrical phenomena, the relations between electricity and optics, as also the theories of ionization, the electronic hypothesis, etc., have been treated at some length; but it has not been thought necessary to dilate upon the modes of production and utilization of the current, upon the phenomena of magnetism, or upon all the applications which belong to the domain of Electro-technics. L. POINCARE.

"IF I HAD UNDERSTOOD THE RIPPLE ON EFFECT OF MENIERE'S DISEASE, WE WOULD NOT HAVE LOST THE FAMILY HOME," says the Author. In this candid, honest and thought provoking book, he shares his personal experiences. What can go wrong and more importantly, how you can avoid the negative affects that can happen when you suffer from a long term chronic condition like Meniere's. Meniere's disease can affect not only your general sense of well being but your income, savings, future plans, friends, business partnerships and at the heart of it all, your closest personal relationships. A book every Meniere sufferer, their family, friends and partners should read to fully understand how having a long-term chronic condition, like Meniere's disease, can and will affect all your lives. And how you can help prevent this. Keeping life positive in a time of Meniere's. This self-help book may help you keep chaos out of other parts of your personal life. When you can do this, the negative effect of suffering from a long-term condition, shifts to a positive one as you have less stress and anxiety in your everyday life and more personal energy to deal and cope with the disease itself.

Cataract Solutions: Prevention & Reversal Via Accelerated Self-Healing is a comprehensive guide to the science and art of healing cataracts naturally, using nutrition, herbs, homeopathy and light therapy. This book has been useful to support successful self-healing, as well as being a useful reference guide for caregivers, healers and holistic physicians. Dr. Swartwout shares three decades of accumulated knowledge, having helped hundreds of people avoid the most common surgery in Medicare. The best news is that when you improve your eye health naturally, not only is vision restored, but years and quality are added to your life. Modern surgery is wonderful, but it does not remove the underlying causes of cataract, which continue to affect the whole body. That is why the average life expectancy after cataract surgery is a mere 5 years. This is not generally thought about or talked about because the focus of our modern medical industry is on heroic intervention, with precious little time spent educating patients about health maintenance and primary disease prevention.

The struggle to survive in today's noisy classrooms is real. The child's poor performance often leads authorities to apply undue pressure on him, frequently concluding that he is lazy or of low intelligence, which is certainly not the case. The child's brain is a complex storage and retrieval organ, which mandates that information be properly received, stored, and organized in order to be retrieved for proper use. The child who processes information normally in the classroom is constantly assigning meaning to what is being said in the classroom. The brain is capable of performing these functions in millisecond as long as there is a built-in attention filtering device that assists him in processing relevant information and filtering out or eliminating that which is not. The child who has processing difficulties is not equipped with the excellent filtering capabilities of the normal processing child. His primary difficulty is that of learning through a defective auditory (hearing) channel. Unlike the normal listener, he cannot make maximum use of what he hears for academic purposes even though his hearing is normal. Something seems to intercept the information between what he hears with the normal ear and its decoding by the brain. He allows in both relevant and irrelevant information all at once. Because of poor storage and retrieval capabilities as well, this results in inadequate receptive expressive and integrative functioning on the part of the child. You may often hear him say to the teacher, "I forget." "What did you say?" "Would you repeat that?" "I don't understand" The Listening Child explains in layman's terms what teaches and what parents need to know out this child's difficulty.

This book is designed with a series of active stretches and exercises for seniors that can be done while lying in bed. Active stretching not only stretches the muscles and tissues, but prepares the muscles for the action by activating and warming them up. The exercises will help alleviate some of the aches and pains in the joints, while getting you more energetic and stronger..

Discover the Real Secrets of How You Can Attain Perfect Eyesight Without Glasses or Surgery Yes, he quit wearing eye-glasses and he attained 20-20 vision in both eyes. He was eager to tell his story--and why not for he had been wearing eye-glasses for years and had been told by eye doctors that he would always have to wear them. But, he followed the advice of Natural Eyesight Improvement Specialists and discovered the real truth about eyes. Robert Zuraw discovered the method for strengthening the eyes and correcting eye troubles, that is now acclaimed by many thousands to work wonders for their vision. You don't have to wear eye classes or contacts. Perfect Eyesight will show you the secrets of a simple eye training system to correct your vision naturally. Why suffer with unnecessary eye problems? Truly a revelation. And what a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. Think of it. After being a slave to eye-glasses for years--you can discard your glasses forever. Building up the strength of your eyes can be an enjoyable process-that doesn't take much time to perform. Only a few short months, in most cases, of self-treatment, in correct eye exercise techniques-eye supplements and natural habits, can improve your vision tremendously. Over 40 years ago, Robert Zuraw had a most trying experience with his eyes--he was legally blind without glasses. Eye doctors gave him no hope of ever improving his vision or discarding his glasses. The idea of wearing glasses was intolerable. Always willing to back up his theories by experimenting upon himself, and with the help of Natural Eye Training Specialists, improved his vsion from 20- 600 to 20-20. He reversed advanced myopia in his 50s. Mr. Zuraw discovered a startling revolutionary system of eye training, which quickly enables you to train the muscles of the eyes so that you too can make them work properly at all times, and without effort or strain. This new system was coordinated by Robert Zuraw, in collaboration with the latest scientific natural eyesight discoveries, and with the help of co-author Robert Lewanski. Another grateful reader of the "Perfect Eyesight" book writes: "I had been wearing glasses since I was eight years old, and now I no longer need glasses." There is hardly any condition (except degenerative chronic eye disease) that is beyond the reach of Robert Zuraw's revolutionizing "Perfect Eyesight" method of eye training. Perfect Eyesight contains the latest and most important vision improvement discoveries of the 21st century. The Perfect Eyesight book took over 40 years of research, practice and testing. The real facts are in. Find out the real Perfect Eyesight healing secrets, passed down from Master Teachers from around the world, in all cultures. Then, you will know the secrets of how you too can attain Perfect Eyesight without glasses or surgery. Discover the inner eye secrets behind: The Egyptian "Black Dot" and "Letter Gazing" techniques, How to use "Positive Lens' glasses, Easy-to-do, no routine, naturaleye exercises, Sspecial internal chi kung oriental exercises for vision power, Natural foods, herbs and supplements to give you superior vision and clarity, Avoid these foods if you want Perfect Eyesight, 3 extraordinary 10 minute easy eye improvement techniques, Oriental Acupressure points for clear vision, The Secret Black Globe Palming Exercise, Tibetan Peripheral Vision technique. You will discover this, and much more, when you read the revolutionary secrets in Perfect Eyesight.

Seeing Ezra is the soulful, beautifully written memoir of a mother's fierce love for her autistic son, and a poignant examination of what it means to be normal. When Kerry Cohen's son Ezra turns one, a babysitter suggests he may be different, setting her family on a path in which autism dominates their world. As he becomes a toddler and they navigate the often rigid and prescriptive world of therapy, Cohen is unsettled by the evaluations they undergo: At home, Ezra is playfully expressive, sharing profound, touching moments of connection and intimacy with his mother and other family members, but in therapy he is pathologized, prodded to behave in ways that undermine his unique expression of autism. It soon becomes clear that more is at stake than just Ezra's well-being; Cohen and her marriage are suffering as well. Ezra's differentness, and the strain of pursuing varied therapies, takes a toll on the family--Cohen's husband grows depressed and she pursues an affair--all as she tries to help others recognize and embrace Ezra's uniqueness rather than force him to behave outside his comfort level. It isn't until they abandon the expected, prescriptive notions about love, marriage, and individuality that they are able to come back together as two parents who fiercely love their little boy. Powerful and eye-opening, Seeing Ezra is an inspirational chronicle of a mother's struggle to protect her son from a system that seeks to compartmentalize and fix him, and of her journey toward accepting and valuing him for who he is--just as he is.

A laugh-out-loud tale about living with Multiple Sclerosis that proves life isn't over even if you're disabled. David Ashton has a wicked sense of humour that helps him deal with frustrating health department staff, unhelpful government officials, and all the physical challenges of living with increasing disability. Perceptive and encouraging, this astonishingly frank story will change the way disabled people are viewed by society.

# 1 BESTSELLER. THE SELF-HELP BOOK FOR MENIERE'S DISEASE. Recently voted by Goodreads as " A BOOK EVERYONE SHOULD READ AT LEAST ONCE IN THEIR LIFETIME." Widely recommended by ENT Specialists and Audiologists in Australia, New Zealand, UK. Includes a 'personal' notebook with 100 ideas for managing and coping with Meniere's disease. Self-help every sufferer of Meniere's disease can use everyday with the ultimate aim of recovering a full and active life, as the Author went on to do. The Author proved that you can't wait until you feel well to start working towards better health. So what makes Meniere Man And The Astronaut different? Unlike a medical text, this book is written with sensitivity for the condition and practical advice based on personal experience. The advice given will help anyone diagnosed with Meniere's and also help doctors, ENT specialists and family understand Meniere's disease from a patient perspective.

Did you know that exercising improperly can slowly destroy your health? Did you know that joint stiffness and muscle aches are not an inevitable part of aging? Did you know that most surgeries to relieve chronic musculoskeletal pain are performed unnecessarily because the pain is not caused by a herniated disc, torn cartilage, or other abnormality that may be seen on MRI but by an unrecognized chronic contraction of muscle? Did you know that there is a scientifically-based way to restore the health and vitality of your muscles to the athleticism of your youth? This book reveals the hidden truths about muscle and the ubiquitous phenomenon of hypertonic spasm--a silently growing, permanent contraction of muscle that affects all of us to some degree and slowly erodes the health and vitality of our muscles without our being aware of it until we begin to experience symptoms that are almost always misattributed to aging or an abnormality of the spine or joints. In this life-changing book, you will discover how hypertonic spasm develops, how it causes symptoms, and, if you are already suffering from it's ill effects, what to do to get out of pain and stay out of pain without the need of drugs, injections, or surgery. We're talking about truths that are destined to revolutionize orthopedic medicine, physical rehabilitation, and the fitness world So if you want to preserve the vitality of your muscles and get the most out of them; or, conversely, if you have ever thrown out your back, developed chronic pain in a joint, or experienced frightening symptoms like numbness, tingling, or pain down an arm or leg, this book is for you