The Boy Who Could Run But Not Walk
Author: Karen Pape
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781988025063
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Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781988025063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Karen Pape
Publisher: Barlow Publishing
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781988025056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Karen Pape tells the story of how some children with early brain damage astounded everyone around them. The brain injury they suffered at or near birth had led to motor problems such as the awkward gait we associate with cerebral palsy. Yet they were able to run, kick a soccer ball, tap dance, and play tennis. This was not supposed to happen. It ran counter to the prevailing belief that the brain is hardwired and fixed. When Dr. Pape first shared her remarkable findings, she ran into fierce opposition from mainstream medicine. Yet this courageous neonatologist didn't back down. In her clinical practice, Pape helped many young brain-damaged children to significantly improve their movement. It led her to ask why some of them could run but not walk with the same ease. Her answer was astounding: By the time they learned to run, their brains had healed. The awkward walking gait was actually a bad habit acquired while the brain was still damaged. This is the power and the beauty of neuroplasticity, the brain's amazing ability to change and heal. It has revolutionized the treatment of adults who suffer stroke. Now, for the first time, this remarkable book shows that children with a brain injury at or near birth can get better, too. These stories of children's recovery and improvements are a revelation--surprising, inspiring, and illuminating. They offer real hope for some of the world's most vulnerable children and a better understanding of how the baby brain grows and recovers.
Author: Anat Baniel
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0399537368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover the revolutionary way to harness the brain's capacity to heal itself Supported by the latest brain research, The Anat Baniel Method uses simple, gentle movements and focus to help any child, who has been diagnosed with autism, Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy or other developmental disorders. In this supportive and hands-on book, Anat Baniel guides parents through the nine essentials of the method, each one designed to harness the brain's capacity to heal itself -- with remarkable and sometimes immediate results. By shifting the focus to connecting rather than "fixing," this powerful yet simple method helps both children and parents to de- stress, focus, and grow. Most of all, the it helps all children maximize their potential, no matter what their diagnosis.
Author: Adam Moore
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780933849242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Adam Moore describes how he suffered a serious brain injury and recovered with medical help and family support.
Author: Claire Keegan
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 0802160158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.
Author: Skila Brown
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0763665169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Caminar is the story of a boy who joins a small band of guerilla fighters who must decide what being a man during a time of war really means.
Author: Andrew Clements
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-04-20
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1101200456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award! Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old-boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming-Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blind, and Bobby can't resist talking to her, trusting her. But people are starting to wonder where Bobby is. Bobby knows that his invisibility could have dangerous consequences for his family and that time is running out. He has to find out how to be seen again-before it's too late.
Author: Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 2019
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781663608192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alex Kotlowitz
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0307814289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
Author: Augusten Burroughs
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1429902523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture! Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs.... Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.