| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 212 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Cerebral Palsy, Scope and Joan; Scope's Mission; 1 -- A New Life; 2 -- School Days; 3 -- See the Child, not the Disability; 4 -- My New Treatment; 5 -- Queen Mary's in Surrey; 6 -- Little Miss Mischief; 7 -- Vale Road School; 8 -- Rewarding Times; 9 -- Girl Guides; 10 -- The Rangers; 11 -- Moving On; 12 -- Challenge; 13 -- More Education Please; 14 -- My Own Brownie Pack; 15 -- Bus Rides; 16 -- I Want to Learn to Drive; 17 -- Going on Holiday by Car; 18 -- In Pursuit of a Teaching Career; 19 -- Middlesex Polytechnic; 20 -- Seeking Employment; 21 -- A Real Job |
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22 -- Haringey Disability Association 23 -- Changing Cars; 24 -- My Small Corner; 25 -- Concern Over My Parents' Health; 26 -- Problems at Home; 27 -- Voluntary Work; 28 -- A Break from Caring; 29 -- Severance; 30 -- Some Drastic Action; 31 -- Vancouver and Susyfrom Hackney; Epilogue |
| Summary |
Visit Joan's website here and watch an interview with Joan here. Às well as being of interest to educators, Joan Ross's autobiography would be would be worth including as a text for pupils following citizenship curriculum in secondary schools' - SENCO Update. Joan is an adult with cerebral palsy who grew up when compulsory education was not in place for all children. Her memories of her childhood before inclusion, her development as a teenager and her adult life are chronicled without sentiment and this book offers the reader an autobiography of someone who lives with a significant disability |
| Notes |
"A Lucky Duck book in association with Scope"--Cover |
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| Subject |
Ross, Joan
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Cerebral palsied -- Great Britain -- Biography
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia.
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MEDICAL -- Neurology.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
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Cerebral palsied
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Great Britain
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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SCOPE (Great Britain)
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| ISBN |
9781849202701 |
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1849202702 |
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9781446213018 |
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1446213013 |
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