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Overcoming Disabilities

 Use the Online Catalog to locate a print source in the Library Media Center.

1. Sections of the Media Center for research are:
          323's for Disability Rights
          371's for Learning Disabilities
          610's for Medical Information on Disabilities
          92's and 920's for Biographical Information

2. Specific reference titles you may want to use:

323.3 PEL

The Disability Rights Movement

346.7301 BOW

Equal Rights for Americans with Disabilities

362.3 KOC

Understanding the Mentally Retarded Child: A New Approach

362.4 CHE

Teens With Physical Disablilities

362.4 DIS

The Disabled

362.4 HAS

The Quiet Revolution: The Struggle for the Rights of Disabled Americans

362.4 ROU

Disabled, Female, and Proud! : Stories of Ten Women with Disabilities

362.41 WOL

Connie's New Eyes

371.9 BIR

A Sourcebook for Helping Children Who Are Gifted and Learning Disabled

371.9 FIS

The Survival Guide for Kids With LD

371.9 PAQ

Learning Disabilities: The Ultimate Teen Guide

371.9 TUR

The Encyclopedia of Learning Disabilities

371.91 CON

A World Upside Down and Backward: Reading and Other Learning Disorders

371.926 LAU

Succeeding With LD

371.926 LEA

Learning Disabilities

371.93 MAC

City Kid

371.93 PFI

All About ADHD

371.94 MAC

A Circle of Children

371.967 KOZ

Savage Inequalities: Children in America 's Schools

616.55 LAN

Living with Albinism

616.748 BUR

Muscular Dystrophy

616.833 LAN

Parkinson's Disease

616.834 AAS

Multiple Sclerosis

616.834 ABR

Multiple Sclerosis

616.834 SUS

Multiple Sclerosis

616.836 AAS

Cerebral Palsy

616.836 SHE

Cerebral Palsy

616.85 TOC

Down Syndrome

616.8589 HAL

Driven to Distraction

616.8589 WEI

ADD and Creativity

617.7 LAN

Blindness

617.8 LAN

Deafness

617.8 TAY

Living with Deafness

920 KEN

Extraordinary People with Disabilities

925 STE

Able Scientists-Disabled Persons

3. Research Databases:

Science and/or Health-related topics
Biographical information

4. Internet URL's you may want to use:  

Disability Central This site contains many links in which to learn more about all aspects of disabilities. A division of this website is Activteen which gives a great listing of Famous Women with disabilities and Resource Links.

Independence, Inc . Lawrence Independent Living Resource Center Lists famous people and their disabilities.

Famous (and not-so-famous) People with Disabilities

Self-AdvocateNet.com

Famous People with Disabilities

Famous People with Disabilities Click on each name to read brief biographical sketches.

Famous People With Disabilities This is a matching quiz; scroll down to bottom and click on
Answers to the Quiz to find out which person has what disability.

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