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College Guide for Students With Physical Disabilities

By Best Colleges Staff Writers — 2020

Colleges are required to make accommodations for students with disabilities to a reasonable extent (i.e. one that does not fundamentally alter the program of study), but not all campuses and buildings are outfitted for special accessibility

Read on www.bestcolleges.com

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Focusing

The classic guide to a powerful technique that can increase your mindfulness and lead to personal transformation. The focusing technique consists of six easy-to-master steps that identify and change the way thoughts and emotions are held within the body.

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Eugene T. Gendlin
1982
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Creating the World We Want to Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.

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Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, David Roffey, Sue Roffey, Marten de Vries
2021
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Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within.

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Rebecca A. Alexander, Sascha Alper
2015
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Disabled People Who Play Professional Sports

Sports are obviously full of strong people, you can’t argue with that. But there are some professional athletes in the world who can definitely give the word “strong” a whole new meaning.

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2020
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Uncovering: an Empowering Pathway to Disability Identity | Heather Evans | TEDxUofW

In her talk, Heather discusses empowering disability identity and reframing disability as a social construct. She explores, through personal stories, how discussing disability and practicing 'uncovering' can lead to a new societal understanding of disability.

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2018
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I Feel Sexy In My Disabled Body | Living Differently

Twenty-four-year-old Alex has spinal muscular atrophy, a condition that causes her severe problems with movement and means she needs a wheelchair.

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2019
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Celebrating Disability as Part of Human Diversity | Catalina Devandas Aguilar | TEDxGeneva

A life-long human rights activist, Catalina Devandas became the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities in 2014.

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2019
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#HowYouSeeMe - How to Talk about Disability with Four Successful Women.

Eone has hosted virtual panel with Becca Meyers, Catherine Elliott, Lizzi Smith and Mallory Weggemann! Hear what these four amazing individuals have to say about embracing their differences and how they tackle the World.

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2021
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I See You, Can You See Me? | Tegan Vincent-Cooke | TEDxBristol

"I am not just my disability, I am me. A young, black, disabled, hilarious, entrepreneur, soon to be Paralympian!" She might be 18 years old, but Tegan Vincent-Cooke is already a successful YouTube star and horse-riding champion.

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2020
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Disability | How You See Me

"Society doesn't correlate disability with being attractive... but we can be stylish, gorgeous, stunning, and fabulous."

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2017
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