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Summary: This book examines the causes and symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), looks at the everyday realities of people with OCD, and explores the management and treatment options available today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This program presents a disability simulation in which an all-star football player learns to deal with some of the day-to-day physical challenges faced by single-arm amputees. In addition, two enabling activities are featured: golfing at a course designed specifically for wheelchair users, who compete using specialized clubs and adapted carts, and cruising on a motorcycle ingeniously customized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: In this program, the issues of body image and self-acceptance are considered first by a teenager with a neurological disorder preparing for her first prom and then by a group of adults who first became disabled later in life. In addition, the need to improve attitudes and eliminate prejudices that can come between people with different types of disabilities is discussed; yoga modified for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: This program confronts competing issues of athlete safety and discrimination through the cases of two wheelchair runners training at the University of Alberta's indoor track at the Butterdome. The program also applauds two classic movies-My Left Foot and Born on the Fourth of July-for defying typical Hollywood stereotyping while decrying the portrayal of pianist David Helfgott in Shine as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Summary: Inclusion is essential to anyone's feelings of well-being. In this program, skiing using innovative equipment developed for paraplegics and amputees and playing junior ice hockey competitively with a specially engineered prosthetic arm are shown. In addition, self-esteem is addressed through a boy who decorated his prosthetic leg with a decal of his favorite movie character; disability-friendly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: This program takes a detailed look at a condition that can re-disable survivors of polio later in life: post-polio syndrome. Two case studies shed light on its symptoms, effects, and treatment. Three additional segments focus on Mike Nemesvary, the first quadriplegic to drive around the world unassisted; the Adult Connections in Education initiative at the University of Prince Edward Island,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Dickmann, Nancy
Summary: Symptoms and treatments for diabetes and how this condition affects people's daily lives. Diabetes affects how the body turns food into energy. Read this book to find out the causes, symptoms, and treatments for this condition, and how people living with diabetes can enjoy happy, healthy lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brown Bear Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 618.92 DICLombardo, Jennifer
Summary: Readers learn the symptoms of and treatments for migraines as well as what doctors currently know about their cause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.8 LOMGish, Melissa
Summary: "A look at elk, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their camouflaging pelage, behaviors, relationships with humans, and the negative effects of climate change on these magnificent deer today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education and Createve Paperbacks 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.65 GISGish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at alligators, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their scaly skin, behaviors, relationships with humans, and threatened status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Gish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at kangaroos, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as the females' pouches, behaviors, relationships with humans, and valued status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.222 GISGish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at pandas, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their black-and-white fur, behaviors, relationships with humans, and threatened status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.789 GISGish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at zebras, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their striped fur, behaviors, relationships with humans, and protected status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.6657 GISGish, Melissa
Summary: "A look at falcons, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their wings, behaviors, relationships with humans, and their threatened status in the world today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education/Creative Paperbacks 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.9 GISGish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at killer whales, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their unique coloration, behaviors, relationships with humans, and protected status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.536 GISGish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at rhinoceroses, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their horned noses, behaviors, relationships with humans, and protected status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.668 GISGish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at sea lions, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their webbed flippers, behaviors, relationships with humans, and threatened status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.7975 GISGish, Melissa
Summary: "A look at anteaters, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their long, sticky tongues, behaviors, relationships with humans, and the effects of deforestation on tree-dwelling species' habitat in the world today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.3 GISGish, Melissa
Summary: "A look at seahorses, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their prehensile tails, behaviors, relationships with humans, and the mysteries that still surround these fish today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597 GISGish, Melissa
Summary: "A look at sloths, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their long claws, behaviors, relationships with humans, and their growing popularity in the world today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Gish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at gorillas, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their large heads, behaviors, relationships with humans, and threatened status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.884 GISGish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at hummingbirds, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their ability to hover, behaviors, relationships with humans, and admired status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.764 GISGish, Melissa.
Summary: "A look at moose, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their imposing antlers, behaviors, relationships with humans, and secure status in the world today"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.657 GISGish, Melissa
Summary: "A look at pelicans, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their flexible gular pouches, behaviors, relationships with humans, and their vulnerability to pollution in the world today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education/Creative Paperbacks 2018