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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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We’ve Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents

How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night? When writer and musician Eliza Hull was pregnant with her first child, like most...

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Eliza Hull (editor)
2022
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What’s Disability to Me?

Meet Bernard, a person with disabilities who fully participates in life. This video is one in a series of disability-themed videos in support of the first-ever World Report on Disability. More videos are available at World Health Organization’s website.

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2012
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Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment

James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental...

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James I. Charlton
2000
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Transcending Disabilities: Positive Body Imaging | Kim Lan Grout | TEDxUNC

One day in the grocery store, someone questioned Kim Lan Grout's ability to be a mother because of her leg amputation. In this talk, Grout explores the way we judge differences, and how simple it is to change the way we think about them.

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2016
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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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Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity

Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital muscle weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood.

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Ben Mattlin
2012
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Underdog: 12 Inspirational Stories for the Despondent Law Student

As a law student or young attorney, are you feeling despondent about your job prospects due to less-than-ideal grades? Underdog: 12 Inspirational Stories for the Despondent Law Student provides a sense of reassurance to law students contemplating dropping out after a poor first-year performance,...

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Jesse Wang
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Find Your Strength: The Essential Self-Defense Handbook for Every College Woman

FIND YOUR STRENGTH: The Essential Self-Defense Guide for Every College Woman is more than a book focusing on physical techniques to thwart an attacker.

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Jodi Harrison-Lee
2025
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Parties, Dorms and Social Norms: A Crash Course in Safe Living for Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum

The late teens and twenties are exciting times, but filled with potential pitfalls as young people navigate the transition into independent adult life.

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Lisa Meeks, Tracy Loye Masterson
2025
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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger’s

In the real world, people on the autism spectrum need the same kinds of day-to-day skills everyone else needs to be functional! It’s true.

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Jennifer Mcilwee Myers, Temple Grandin
2025
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