Extended Summer Hours

Starting next Tuesday, June 2nd, CeDIR will be open every Tuesday until 7:00 pm throughout the summer. Stop by and check out our collection!!

Blindsight

Blindsight, to quote the NY Times, is "one of those documentaries with the power to make you re-examine your entire life." The film follows a group of Tibetan teenagers with vision impairments as they climb Lhakpa Ri, a peak in the Himalayas. Accompanied by their German teacher and Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind man to have surmounted Mt. Everest, the culturally ostracized young men and women display astonishing fortitude in the face of altitude sickness and frightening weather conditions. The winner of several international awards, this movie beautifully showcases the resilience of the human spirit.

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Alzheimer's Disease: Facing the Facts

Alzheimer's Disease: Facing the Facts is an hour-long Emmy-nominated, CINE Golden Eagle Award-winning documentary. The film covers the personal and public effects of this devastating condition through interviews with families, doctors, and scientists. It discusses such issues as the comparative lack of funding for research on the disease and the health care costs associated with it in a straightforward, yet compassionate tone.

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Did you hear...Fragile X Syndrome

Transcript of Podcast



Resources:

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (2003). Families and fragile X syndrome.
Bethesda, MD : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health.

Weber, J. D. (2000) Children with fragile X syndrome: A parents' guide. Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House.



Online Resources:

http://delicious.com/cedir/fragile_x

The Polio Crusade

American Experience: The Polio Crusade is a PBS Home Video that overviews the battle against the Polio virus in the 1940s and 50s. The film traces the tensions between scientists as they struggle to develop the Stalk vaccine, the trials of those infected, and the work of a lone philanthropist determined to spread public awareness of the disease.

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Just Like Anyone

Just Like Anyone: 5 Stories From the Ann Sullivan Center of Peru tells the story of five families and how each family works to help their children with developmental disabilities succeed in life. The DVD describes each families discoveries, their acceptance of their children as they are, and their progress working as a family, and with the community.

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Praying with Lior

Praying with Lior is a documentary that follows a young boy with Down Syndrome and his family as he approaches Bar Mitzvah. Considered alternately a "spiritual genius" and a burden, Lior inspires his community with fervent devotion and compels them to reevaluate what they consider a "disability." A companion website for the film offers Jewish disability resources and a study guide to stimulate discussion.

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Emmanuel's Gift

Emmanuel's Gift, narrated by Oprah Windfrey, is a moving and inspirational film based on the life of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah. Emmanual was born an orphan with disabilities from Ghana who overcame poverty and his physical challenges to become an inspiration to people all over the world. He decided to ride his bike across Ghana on one leg to try and change his country's perception of people with disabilities. This incredible documentary is recommended for the whole family.

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Sibshops: Workshops for Siblings of Children with Special Needs

Sibshops: Workshops for Siblings of Children with Special Needs revised edition by Don Meyer and Patricia Vadasy provides practical ideas and fun activities to create support groups for siblings of children with special needs. This user friendly manual gives you detailed instructions and reproducible forms to help start your own workshop. This guide helps you develop interactive workshops for brothers and sisters of children with special needs to share their stories and just have fun.

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If not an Indiana resident, find this book at your local library here in WorldCat.

Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia

Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia: An Interpretation for Teachers by J.P. Das is an all-purpose resource for parents and educators of children with difficulties processing written and/or spoken language. Das explains the cognitive origins of dyslexia, and offers strategies to break down the structure of English to help children read and comprehend. He also describes various programs and techniques to develop the skills necessary to thrive in a modern educational system.

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Challenges to the Human Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities

Challenges to the Human Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities is written by Dr. Frances Owen, Associate Professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University in Ontario. The book, aimed at advocates, lawyers, policy-makers and students but full of useful information for the general public, tackles the legal framework that allows people with disabilities to exercise their basic Human Rights in their everyday lives. The first portion of the book describes the history of law concerning and common attitudes towards people with disabilities, while the second details modern-day policies on specific rights (medical and legal rights, right to education, evidence-based treatment etc.)

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Spring Open House

On Wednesday May 20 from 10am to 7pm, the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community will be having our open house. Come join us for lots of food, information, and all around fun!

Check out more information here: http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/cedir/openhouse.html

Hope to see you there!

Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities

Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities: What Educators and Service Providers Can Do by Jeffrey Bakken and Festus Obiakor provides a wide range of topics that cover each area of transition impacting the lives of students with disabilities. This book takes an in-depth look at using assistive technology to help plan a student's future and stresses the importance of family involvement. This resource guide assists educators and service providers in developing an effective plan to help students with disabilities meet their goals to achieve success during school and beyond.

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If not, check to see if your local library has it by using WorldCat.

What's That Look On Your Face?

What's That Look On Your Face? All About Faces and Feelings

What's That Look On Your Face? by Catherine Snodgrass teaches children with language and communication difficulties to recognize basic facial expressions, as well as the feelings they convey. Each emotion is illustrated by a characteristic, exaggerated painting which focuses children's attention on the face through artful use of black/white and color. Accompanying poems, filled with synonyms and simple rhymes, will help older children apply what they learn to real-life interpersonal interactions.

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Inside Outside

Inside Outside: Building a Meaningful Life After the Hospital documents through film the lives of eight people with histories of institutionalization, as they transition from nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals into the community. The film shows that recovery and life in the everyday community is possible. Also included in the film is an introduction with Patrcia E. Deegan Ph.D. In the introduction, Deegan discusses the film before an audience of people with psychiatric disabilities at Pilgrim State Hospital. Each individual in the film is introduced and a history of their psychiatric history is give.

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Teen Guide to Epilepsy

Epilepsy: The Ultimate Teen Guide by Kathlyn Gay and Sean McGarrahan is written specifically for a teen audience and dispels the myths, misconceptions, and misunderstandings about people who have epilepsy. Stories from teens showing them participating in normal activities provide the reader with hopeful insight. The authors also offer advice on how to tell others about this disorder and a list of resources on various publications, websites, organization and the application of the American with Disabilities Act to epilepsy is provided at the end.

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Pathways to Competence

Pathways to Competence: Encouraging Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children by Sarah Landy guides professionals through the nine important domains of social and emotional development in children from birth to 6 years old. Each chapter also discusses research findings, definitions, importance of overall development, principles to foster growth, commonly raised issues, discussion questions, and sample exercises.

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Mental Health Month

May is Mental Health Month, and this year is the celebration of 100 years of support and education for individuals with mental health conditions. Check out more information at Mental Health America.

Looking for an interesting resource regarding this topic? Inside Outside: Building a Meaningful Life After the Hospital is a film depicting the lives of eight people as they transition from nursing homes to psychiatric hospitals into the community. This film carries an encouraging message of possibility, recovery, and success.

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Not an Indiana resident? Find this at your local library using WorldCat.

Canine Assistance

Indiana Canine Assistant Network (ICAN) is a nonprofit organization that provides canine assistance. "ICAN was founded in late 2001 by Sally Irvin, Ph.D, who was inspired by the idea of creating positive and powerful connections between at-risk individuals, animals, and people with physical disabilities and developmental disabilities. ICAN is based in Indianapolis, Indiana, and serves residents of Indiana, with occasional client placements outside of the state."

They provide three types of dog services which are assistance or skilled companion dogs, facility dogs (who work with the professionals), and therapy dogs (who stay primarily in the home).

Check out the website here: http://www.icandog.org/index.htm
Or Contact them at:
1801 N. Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Office Number:
(317) 250-6450

Creating and E-Mentoring Community

Creating and E-Mentoring Community: How Do-IT does it, and how you can do it,too by Sheryl Burgstahler teaches the reader how to create an e-mentoring community. Within the book it describes the philosophy of e-mentoring, research on the topic, the purpose of e-mentoring and more. In the second half of the book, the reader will see how to set personal, academic and career goals, how to understand your strengths and weaknesses, how to develop and support network and much more.

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If not, check WorldCat to see if your local library has it