Bibliograph

Extraordinary people with disabilities, by Deborah Kent, Kathryn A. Quinlan

Type

Label

Extraordinary people with disabilities, by Deborah Kent, Kathryn A. Quinlan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

portraits

Index

index present

Intended audience

1020L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Extraordinary people with disabilities

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

by Deborah Kent, Kathryn A. Quinlan

Series statement

Extraordinary people

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 8.4, 13, 42991

Summary

Profiles several dozen people throughout history with various physical or mental disabilities. Additional articles provide historical background on the disability rights movement

Table Of Contents

John Milton, Louis Braille, Thomas Edison, Ludwig van Beethoven, Harriet Tubman, Juliette Gordon Low, Thaddeus Stevens, John Wesley Powell, Helen Keller, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Horace Pippin, Dorothea Lange, Frida Kahlo, Sir Douglas Bader, Jacobus TenBroek, Harold Russell, The fight for disability rights legislation, Bill Veeck, Alicia Alonso, Roy Campanella, Robert Dole, Daniel Inouye, John Langston Gwaltney, Christy Brown, Beverly Butler, Audre Lorde, Ed Roberts, Henry Kisor, Wilma Rudolph, The challenge of sports, Stephen Hawking, I. King Jordan, Judi Chamberlin, Wilma Mankiller, Itzhak Perlman, Patty Duke, Harilyn Rousso, For the disabled, of the disabled, Temple Grandin, Judy Heumann, Stevie Wonder, John Callahan, The right to live, the right to die, Susan Nussbaum, John Hockenberry, Tom Cruise, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Chris Burke, Disabled students in the mainstream, Marlee Matlin, Jean Driscoll, Jim Abbott, Heather Whitestone, To find a way or to make one: Technological aids for the disabled

Target audience

juvenile

Classification