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These are books we recommend or have been
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a number of sources for free to the blind and physically handicapped by the National
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An
Orientation and Mobility Primer for Families and Young Children
Bonnie Dodson-Burk, Everett W. Hill
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The Adjustment of the Blind (RC 10632)
Chevigny, Hector, and Braverman, S.
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A
Pedestrian Safety Guide for Parents and Teachers with Children Who Have Impairments
By Al Vopata, M.A., Ph.D., COMS
This book contains information about increasing pedestrain safety, including night
travel. He explains the difference between child and adult pedestrians, and a list of the
most common causes of pedestrian injuries and fatalities. The cost is $20 plus $3 shipping
and can be ordered from:
Al Vopata
409 N. Bay Country
Wichita, Kansas 67235-1314.
A
Psychologist Looks at Blindness
Allan Dodds
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The
Art and Science of Teaching Orientation and Mobility to Persons with Visual Impairments
William H. Jacobson
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The Art of Seeing (RC 13503)
Huxley, Aldous
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A
Guide to Independence for the Visually Impaired and Their Families (RC unknown)
Vivian Younger, Jill Sardegna
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A Handbook for Senior Citizens: Rights,
Resources and Responsibilities (RC 17409)
Walhof, Ramona
An Easier Way: Handbook for the Elderly and
Handicapped (RC 21628)
Sargent, Jean V.
Targeted for newly blind.
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Attitudes Toward Blind Persons
Lukoff, Irving F., et.al.
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Blindness and Children : An Individual
Differences Approach
by David H. Warren
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Blindness and Early Childhood Development
by David H. Warren
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Blindness:
The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought
by Moshe Barasch
A remarkable study of how Western culture has imagined what
it is like to be blind.
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Blindness (Understanding Illness)
by Elaine Landau
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Blindness: What It Is, What It Does and How to
Live with It (RC 20473)
Carroll, Thomas J.
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Braille For The Sighted
by S. Harold Collins
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Braille
Literacy Curriculum
by Diane P. Wormsley
Braille Literacy Curriculum presents strategies for incorporating braille into the
total curriculum.
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Can't
Your Child See? : A Guide for Parents and Professionals About Young Children Who Are
Visually Impaired
by Eileen P. Scott, James E. Jan, Roger D. Freeman
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Career Perspectives: Interviews with Blind and
Visually Impaired Professionals (RC unknown)
Marie Attmore
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out!
The Changing Status of the Blind: From
Separation to Integration (RC 11059)
Lowenfeld, Berthold
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Children
With Visual Impairments : A Parents' Guide (The Special-Needs Collection)
by M. Cay Holbrook (Editor)
Loaded with instructive guidance and concrete support, this fine resource offers a
great deal of information and reassurance to parents who have children with visual
impairments.
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Cockeyed
by Ryan Knighton
In this hilarious, unsentimental yet moving memoir the author describes what
it was like to start losing his eyesight in his teens.
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Cooking
with Feeling ... and other useful senses: adaptive
by Deborah DeBord
An experienced blind cook, shares 180 adaptive culinary
techniques for the visually impaired.
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Cooking Without Looking: Food Preparation
Methods and Techniques for Blind Homemakers (RC 11464)
by Tipps, Esther Claire Mae Knudson
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Coping With Blindness : Personal Tales of
Blindness Rehabilitation (RC unknown)
by Alvin Roberts
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Creative Recreation for Blind and Visually
Impaired Adults (RC unknown)
Irene Ludwig
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Dancing in the Dark (RC unknown)
by Frances Lief Neer
Autobiography of adjustment to sight-loss, a "good humored, non-threatening
reference guide for living in a frightening situation." Recommended to individuals
and professionals.
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Do
You Remember the Color Blue : And Other Questions Kids Ask About Blindness
by Sally Hobart Alexander
Blindness is a fascinating mystery to
children. Sally Hobart Alexander lost her sight at the age of twenty-six, and although the
experience was devastating, eventually her life changed in positive ways she never
expected.
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Electronic Spatial Sensing for the Blind:
Contributions from Perception, Rehabilitation, and Computer Vision
David Warren & Edward Strelow
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English/Spanish
Basics for Orientation and Mobility Instructors
Christian J. Foy
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The Encyclopedia of Blindness and Vision
Impairment
by Jill Sardegna, T. Otis Paul
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Everyday
Heroes: Extraordinary Dogs Among Us
Sherry Bennett Warshauer, Betty White
Photographer Mary Bloom and author Sherry Bennett Warshauer tell the remarkable
stories of service dogs who are guides, healers, therapists, and, in many cases, the
bridge to a normal, fulfilling life for many patients and owners.
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The First Year: Age-related
Macular Degeneration. An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
by Daniel L. Roberts
An essential resource for those who want to be an informed, active
participant in the management of their condition.
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Foundations of Education for Blind and Visually
Handicapped Children and Youth : Theory and Practice
by Geraldine T. Scholl (Editor)
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Foundations
of Orientation and Mobility
Blasch, Wiener, Welsh
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Future Vision: Space-Age Techniques to Save
Your Sight (RC 27061)
Rubman, Robert M.
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Games for People With Sensory Impairments:
Strategies for Including Individuals of All Ages
by Lauren J. Lieberman, Jim F. Cowart
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Go For
It! A Book on Sport and Recreation for People with Disabilities
By Kelley and Frieden
Out of print, but Amazon will contact you if a used copy becomes available.
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Guide to Resources for Children and Youth
with Visual Impairments, Third Edition
Compiled and Edited by Denise Ferrin, M.A.
"This is the nation's most comprehensive directory of sources for products and
services for children and youth with visual impairments", states the editor. Indeed,
the contents list just about every device available for the visually impaired, for just
about anyone who needs it!
Available from:
Cane and Compass Publishing
P.O. Box 11
Westminster, CA 92684
or from amazon.com:
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Hand in Hand : Essentials of Communication
and Orientation and Mobility for Your Students Who Are Deaf-Blind : A Trainer's Manual
byJeanne Glidden Pricket
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Hand in Hand: Essentials of Communication and
Orientation and Mobility for Your Students Who Are Deaf-Blind
Kathleen Mary Heubner
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How Do You Kiss a Blind Girl? (RC 27117)
Wagner, Sally
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How Do I Do This When I Can't See What I'm
Doing (RC unknown)
Gerald Jahoda
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If
Blindness Strikes - Don’t Strike Out: A Lively Look at Living with a Visual
Impairment (RC 21060)
Smith, Margaret M.
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I Have a Friend Who Is Blind (Basic Manuals for
Families and Friends of the Disabled, Vol 2)
by Hannah Carlson, Dale Carlson, Hope M. Douglas (Illustrator)
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Insights from the Blind: Comparative Studies of
Blind and Sighted Infants (RC 12781)
Fraiberg, Selma H.
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Jobs to Be Proud of : Profiles of Workers Who
Are Blind or Visually Impaired
by Deborah Kendrick
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Just
People (RC unknown)
Helen Kitchen Branson
A unique autobiography that chronicles the love story and challenges of a blind
couple in their struggle to be independent and productive parents despite prejuidice and
hardship.
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Knots on a Counting Rope
by John Archambault, Ted Rand (Illustrator), Bill, Jr. Martin, J. Clarke
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Light in the Shadows: Feelings About Blindness
(RC 19874)
Perry, Elizabeth C.
Out of print.
Listen for the Bus : David's Story
by Patricia McMahon, John Godt (Illustrator)
A grandfather uses a counting rope to help his blind grandson understand the
passage of time.
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Living
With Blindness
by Patsy Westcott
These volumes introduce readers to people with disabilities
and show how they go about their everyday lives. (Reading level: ages 9-12.)
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Louis Braille : The Boy Who Invented Books for
the Blind
by Margaret Davidson
Blinded at the age of 3, Louis Braille developed a superb memory that enabled him
to do well in school. But that wasn't enough--Louis wanted to read.
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Low Vision: What You Can Do to Preserve, and
Even Enhance, Your Usable Sight (RC 26617)
Neal, Helen
Out of print.
Making Life More Livable: Simple Adaptations
for the Homes of Blind and Visually Impaired Older People (RC 22319)
Dickman, Irving R.
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The Making of Blind Men: A Study of Adult
Socialization (RC 25905)
Scott, Robert A.
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Making the Best of It—How to Cope with
Being Handicapped (RC 24717)
Holzhauser, Gillian K.
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The Meaning of Blindness: Attitudes Towards
Blindness and Blind People (RC 14709)
Monbeck, Michael E.
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No Apologies (RC 27212)
Weiner, Florence
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No
Ordinary Dog
by Mary S. Wilson, Janet Moreiko
A book for children about the raising of a dgo-guide from puppy to adulthood.
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Nothing About Us, Without Us:
Disability Oppression and Empowerment
by James I. Charlton
A ringing indictment of disability oppression.
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On
Blindness : Letters Between Bryan Magee and Martin Milligan
by Bryan Magee, Martin Milligan
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On
Sight & Insight : A Journey into the World of Blindness
by John M. Hull
A true story of a man who became blind as an adult.
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Ophthalmological Considerations in the
Rehabilitation of the Blind
by Charles W. Hoehne
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Orchid
of the Bayou : A Deaf Woman Faces Blindness
by Cathryn Carroll, Catherine Hoffpauir Fischer
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Orientation
and Mobility Techniques : A Guide for the Practitioner
by Everett W. Hill, Purvis Ponder
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Out
of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
by Russell Freedman
Grade 3-6, tells about Braille's life and the development of the Braille
writing system.
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Partners in Independence: A Success Story of
Dogs and the Disabled
Ed James, Toni Eames, Mordecai Siegal
Partly autobiographical, partly journalistic, this work relates the experiences and
chronicles the travels of the authors as they take an advocacy role for the needs and
rights of the disabled, especially those who use specially-trained dogs as their eyes,
ears, or as attentive assistants.
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Planet of the Blind
Stephen Kuusisto
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Privleged
Hands
Geerat Vermeij
This remarkable memoir by a great marine biologist, who is perhaps the world's
leading authority on marine mollusks and who has been blind since the age of three.
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The Psychology of Blindness (RC 12290)
Kirtley, Donald D.
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Rehabilitating Blind and Visually Impaired
People: A Psychological Approach
Allan Dodds
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Safe
Without Sight: Crime Prevention and Self-Defense Strategies for People Who
Are Blind
by Wendy David, Kerry Kollmar, Scott McCall, Diane Croft (Photographer),
Susan R. Martin (Editor), Webb Chappell
Based on a course developed at the Center for the Visually
Impaired in Atlanta, this book covers how to avoid danger and how to escape
from it.
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Seeing Lessons : The Story of Abigail Carter
and America's First School for Blind People
by Spring Hermann, Ib Ohlsson (Illustrator)
In 1832, when Abigail Carter was only ten years old, two doctors from Boston
invited her to be one of the first students in an experimental institution: a school for
blind people. This small start-up school developed into the Perkins School for the Blind.
From this school graduated Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's influential teacher.
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See You Tomorrow, Charles
by Miriam Cohen, Lillian Hoban (Illustrator)
Charles is the new boy in the first-grade class, and he is blind. His classmates
want to be helpful. Should they protect Charles or treat him like everybody else? No one
knows for sure.
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Self-Esteem and Adjusting with Blindness: The
Process of Responding to Life’s Demands
by Dean W., Phd Tuttle, Naomi R. Tuttle (1996 edition)
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it out!
Sight
Unseen
by Georgina Kleege
An
extraordinary autobiography on blindness and sight, and the impact of our
culture.
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Show Me How: A Manual for Parents of Preschool
Visually Impaired and Blind Children
Mary Brennan
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Social
and Cultural Perspectives on Blindness : Barriers to Community Integration
by C. Edwin Vaughan
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Solutions Access Technologies for People Who
Are Blind
by Espinala
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Songs of the Blind Snowbird BR 16406
by Robert Michael Jacobs
A gay former graphic designer who lost his eyesight in 1995 from CMV
retinitis shares anecdotes that were published in his Key West newspaper
column. Jacobs's accounts reveal his personal struggle to reinvent himself
after the diagnosis and relate his emotional and physical experiences of
being blind. 2003. (From the Braille Book Review)
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Take Charge : A Strategic Guide for Blind Job Seekers
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by Rami Rabby
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Taking Hold : My Journey into Blindness
by Sally
Hobart Alexander
Gr. 6-12. Alexander's story of her adjustment to blindness reads like a gripping
suspense novel.
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The Struggle of Blind People for
Self-Determination : The Dependency-Rehabilitation Conflict : Empowerment in the Blindness
Community
by C. Edwin Vaughan
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Teaching Age-Appropriate Purposeful
Skills: An Orientation & Mobility Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments
by Ronda L. Pogrund
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Through
Otis' Eyes: Lessons Learned from a Guide Dog Puppy
by Patricia Burlin Kennedy, Robert Christie (Illustrator)
In a simple and heartwarming manner, "Through Otis's Eyes" captures the
insights that can be gained by watching a guide dog puppy grow up.
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T.J.'s
Story : A Book About a Boy Who Is Blind (Meeting the Challenge)
by Arlene Schulman
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Touch,
Representation, and Blindness (Debates in Psychology)
by Morton A. Heller (Editor)
Examines the major theories and controversies of
psychological studies of touch and blindness.
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Touching the Rock; An Experience of
Blindness
by John M. Hull, Oliver Sacks
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Travel
Tales, A Mobility Storybook
by Halpern-Gold, Adler and Faust-Jones
"Travel Tales, A Mobility Storybook" is a fun book to use to teach
O&M concepts to young children. From the basic text, you can create a multitude of
variations, keeping elementary students busy with an endless supply of creative, original
activites. Published by Mostly Mobility R.D. #1, Box 1448-A, Bethel, PA 19507, ISBN #
0-922637-00-8.
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The
Two-In-One : Walking With Smokie, Walking With Blindness (Animals, Culture, and Society)
by Rod Michalko
The author, a man with low vision, talks at length about traveling with his dog
guide.
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it out!
The Unseen Minority: A Social History of
Blindness in America (RC 9069)
Koestler, Frances A.
Wall of Fog: Struggle with Blindness
Thomas A. Gonzales
The author's struggle with Macular Degeneration and the
sudden onset of blindness. Also available in a spiral
bound edition.
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What
Blind People Wish Sighted People Knew About Blindness
Harry Martin (Editor) (RC unknown)
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Ways of Living
by Charles H., Ed Christensen
This book provides great ideas for treatment techniques that facilitate
independent living. Perfect for the OT student.
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When the Cook Can’t Look: A Cooking
Handbook for the Blind and Visually Handicapped (RC 17940)
Read, Ralph
Out of print.
The Window
by Jeanette Ingold
A girl, blinded by the auto accident that killed her mother, comes to terms with
her disability--and her new life.
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