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While practicing his karate kicks in the park, Marshall makes a new friend, Tate. At first, Tate is reluctant to talk to him - she knows firsthand that not everyone is friendly to a person who is differently-abled! Marshall, Art, and their friends prove to Tate that she's a kid, just like them. This engaging title is part of the Adventures of Marshall & Art series.

Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades preK-4.

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1. ISBN13: 9781602700307
2. Condition: USED - LIKE NEW
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The students in Miss K s class experience situations that occur in schools everywhere. Sophia's first-person narratives teach about caring with brilliant illustrations and humorous text.

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Great Book about Helping not necessary the Best about Disabilities

Beautifully illustrated and written. This is a good book about helping and about how a manual wheelchair works, but not necessarily the best book about disability or children with disabilities. It's not really clear why Sophia even needs a helper to push her everywhere if she's able to wheel herself to the front of the class. I do like that the teacher and classmates listen to Sophia about what works best for her. Helping Sophia is part of a new Main Street School series which have been coming out in 2007 and 2008 and it's the first that I've looked at. It would be interesting to see the Sophia character in other books and see her participation in the classroom.

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This digital document is a journal article from Social Science & Medicine, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This qualitative study aimed to examine risk perception and seriousness of wheelchair dependence in patients with multiple sclerosis. Perceived absolute risk and perceived seriousness were assessed for 2-year, 10-year and lifetime prognosis of wheelchair dependence using visual analogue scales (VAS). In semi-structured interviews, patients (n=85) were asked to elucidate these VAS scores. Explaining perceived absolute risk, patients mentioned disease-related factors as well as psychological factors. Uncertainty about future disease progression was a predominant factor for all patients, even those with low and high perceptions of risk. Wheelchair dependence was perceived as a serious outcome primarily because of its possible implications, such as loss of independence. When perceptions of 2-year, 10-year and the lifetime prospect of wheelchair dependence were compared, it was found that patients discriminated in their perception of absolute risk, but less in that of seriousness. Comparison of quantitative and qualitative assessments indicated good construct validity for perception of the absolute risk and seriousness of wheelchair dependence.

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Vintage 1975 booklet with 11 brief personal stories by patients with MS who are trying to adjust to their illness and to enjoy life, to function as normally as possible in spite of overwhelming handicaps.

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