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Author Fulk, Don, 1942-1998, author.

Title An invincible spirit : the story of Don Fulk / as signed to Janet Allen
Published Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 143 pages) : illustrations
Contents D-O-N -- Communication -- The School for the Deaf -- Oklahoma -- Forever changed -- Soul searching -- New home-new challenges -- Independence -- Betty -- Chincoteague -- Learning to live -- The van -- Wedding day -- Woody -- The zoo -- The search -- To be free
Summary "Profoundly deafened as an infant, Don Fulk didnt learn his name or go to school until the age of ten. At the age of 18 and a budding superstar on his football and basketball teams he broke his neck and was confined to a bed for eight years. When his family could no longer care for him, he spend nine years in a nursing home where he suffered from abuse and neglect. Yet though life marred by frustration and isolation, Don endured the courage, tenacity and wit"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "Fulks is telling his own story, but its "as told to" Allen"--Email from publisher
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 29, 2019)
Subject Fulk, Don, 1942-1998.
Deaf -- United States -- Biography
Quadriplegics -- United States -- Biography
Deaf -- Institutional care -- United States
Quadriplegics -- Rehabilitation -- United States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Deaf
Deaf -- Institutional care
Quadriplegics
Quadriplegics -- Rehabilitation
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Allen, Janet (Janet Anne), 1958- author.
ISBN 9781944838485
1944838481