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Une école pour tous: l'intégration des élèves handicapés ou en difficulté ((Collection Intervenir).)
Par Richard Leonard, Germain Duclos. 2013
Malgré les progrès réalisés pour favoriser l'insertion sociale de ces élèves et la diminution substantielle des classes dites spécialisées ,…
plusieurs défis subsistent afin d'assurer l'inclusion du plus grand nombre d'élèves dans les écoles québécoises. En effet, les changements structurels et pédagogiques nécessaires s'annoncent difficiles dans un contexte contradictoire où l'on semble prôner l'inclusion tout en exigeant la même réussite scolaire traditionnelle pour tous les enfants. Les auteurs s'attardent notamment à la façon de contourner les obstacles des apprenants et aux ressources pouvant être mobilisées pour diminuer les exclusions et permettre aux enfants handicapés ou en difficulté d'apprendre et de s'épanouir davantage. 2013.Un miracle de l'amour: la renaissance d'un enfant autistique
Par Barry Neil Kaufman, Luc Bernard Lalanne, Marie-Thérèse Kerzoncuf-Kolakowski. 1985
"Votre fils est autistique. C'est irrécupérable!" Barry et Suzi décident de percer, seuls, sans aucune aide professionnelle, le mur de…
cette forteresse qui coupe leur fils du monde. 1985. Titre uniforme: Son rise.Two towns in Provence
Par M. F. K Fisher. 1983
The day-to-day adventures of the author in Aix-en-Provence and Marseilles. This is a study of customs and manners, and could…
serve as a guide on how and how not to behave when living abroad. 1983.Truth & beauty: a friendship
Par Ann Patchett. 2005
Author reminisces about her long-term friendship with Lucy Grealy, whom she met in college at Sarah Lawrence and who wrote…
"Autobiography of a Face", describing her battle with facial cancer. Patchett describes their relationship until Grealy's 2002 death from a heroin overdose. 2004.Travels on my elephant
Par Mark Shand. 1991
There is no better way to see India than from the howdah of an elephant, as Mark Shand discovered when…
he set out on a thousand kilometre journey to Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market, on the back of Tara, a 31-year-old elephant. Tara was transformed from a scrawny and ill- treated begging elephant into a star attraction, and finding her a home was to present the greatest challenge of all. 1991.Trailing Pythagoras
Par George Galt. 1982
Galt recounts his personal experiences traveling through the Aegean islands. In addition to a host of incredible characters, Galt has…
to contend with the ghost of his own ancestor, John Galt, who explored the same terrain early in the 19th century. c1982.Tous intouchables?
Par Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, Jean Vanier, Laurent De Cherisey, Vivianne Perret. 2012
"Philippe Pozzo di Borgo dont le livre Le second souffle inspira le scénario du film Intouchables, Jean Vanier, fondateur des…
communautés de L'Arche pour une vie partagée avec des personnes en situation de handicap mental, et Laurent de Cherisey, directeur général de l'association Simon de Cyrène, communauté de vie partagée entre personnes cérébro-lésées (traumatismes crâniens, AVC...) et valides, témoignent de leur bouleversante expérience et nous interpellent : Tous ceux qui souffrent d'une fragilité, d'un handicap quel qu'il soit, ne sont pas uniquement à accueillir au sein de notre société. À rebours de toutes nos représentations ordinaires, ils sont eux-mêmes des acteurs essentiels à notre vie ensemble. Il ne s'agit pas là de leur seule dignité, mais de celle de chacun d'entre nous. " -- 4e de couv.To get rich is glorious: China in the eighties
Par Orville Schell. 1984
Throw your heart over the fence: the continuing adventure of the Famous People Players
Par Diane Dupuy. 1996
The founder of the Famous People Players, a professional theatre company comprising people who are developmentally handicapped, recounts their struggle…
to find a permanent home for the troupe. She tells of the successes and failures of her efforts in the political and corporate world, as well as the support of people such as Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, and Phil Collins. 1996.Flink, the leader of Eye to Eye--a national mentoring program for students with learning and attention issues--enlarges our understanding of…
the learning process and offers innovative strategies for parenting, teaching, and supporting the 20 percent of students with learning disabilities. A fighter who has helped thousands of children adapt to their specific learning issues, Flink understands the needs and experiences of these children firsthand. He, too, has dyslexia and ADHD. Focusing on how to arm students who think and learn differently with essential skills, including meta-cognition and self-advocacy, Flink offers real, hard advice, providing the tools to address specific problems they face--from building self-esteem and reconstructing the learning environment to getting proper diagnoses and discovering their inner gifts. With his easy, hands-on "Step-by-Step Launchpad to Empowerment," parents can take immediate steps to improve their children's lives. 2014.The walk west: a walk across America 2
Par Peter Jenkins, Barbara Jenkins. 1981
A description of the authors' trip from New Orleans to Oregon. They tell of their experiences and the people they…
met during their 2,000 mile walk, beginning in 1976 and ending in 1979. Sequel to "Walk across America." 1981.The survival of Jan Little
Par John Man. 1986
The harrowing experiences of a woman who endured almost lethal psychological and physical abuse during her married life, homesteading in…
the Amazon jungle. Despite being blind and deaf, and separated from civilization, she survived for three months on her own after her husband and daughter died of fever. 1986.The southern gates of Arabia: a journey to the Hadhramaut
Par Freya Stark. 1990
In 1935, Freya Stark set out to travel the Incense Route inland from the southern shores of Arabia. She encountered…
sultans and Bedouin, harem women of Do'an, the Mansab of Meshed, cheerful distributor of peppermints, cloves and chewing gum and Hasan, overheard describing her as "one of the sultanas of England". 1990.The secret voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
Par R. Samuel Bawlf. 2003
On September 26, 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship, the Golden Hinde, into Plymouth harbour on the coast of England.…
He had long been given up for lost, and rumours quickly circulated about where he had been on his three-year voyage and about the huge haul of plunder he had brought home. What was eventually revealed would change the history of exploration in North America. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.The royal road to romance
Par Richard Halliburton. 1969
The author chose to see the world as a vagabond. He relates his adventures: being penniless in Monte Carlo, in…
prison for taking forbidden photographs at Gibraltar, and held by Chinese pirates at sea. 1969.The remarkable world of Frances Barkley, 1769-1845
Par Beth Hill, Frances Barkley. 1978
Frances Barkley was the first European woman to set foot on the coast of B.C. In 1786, she embarked from…
Europe on a trade and exploration voyage with her husband, Captain Charles W. Barkley. Her reminiscences contain her descriptions of their life at sea, and visits to South America, India, China, and what is now known as Alaska and British Columbia. 1978.The new disability history: American perspectives (The history of disability series #6)
Par Paul K Longmore, Lauri Umansky. 2001
Fourteen essays examine disability in the social context of American history. Several discuss attitudes towards deafness and blindness specifically, including…
Kim Nielsen's "Helen Keller and the politics of civic fitness." The collection ends with Richard K. Scotch's historical overview of "American disability policy in the twentieth century". c2001.The memory of water (Life writing series #47)
Par Allen Smutylo. 2013
Over the last forty years, Canadian adventurer and writer Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating…
waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. Here he describes some of his adventures in the Arctic, South Pacific, Great Lakes region, and India. Smutylo probes a crucial and contemporary issue—that of our relationship to water and the wildlife and human life that depend upon it. c2013.Hoffman spent six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances: the statistically most dangerous airlines, the most crowded…
and dangerous ferries, the slowest buses, and the most rickety trains. He did so going from Lima to the Amazon on crowded night buses where the road is a washed-out track, across Indonesia and Bangladesh by overcrowded ferries that kill 1,000 passengers a year, and across Afghanistan as the Taliban closes in. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2010.The lost continent and, Neither here nor there
Par Bill Bryson. 1992
Here in one volume are two comic masterpieces by Bill Bryson, the books that have brought him acclaim as one…
of the funniest writers at work today. "The Lost Continent" is the story of Bryson's return to America, the land of his youth, after ten years in England. He borrowed his mother's car and set out, and his account of his journey has become a classic. In "Neither here nor there" Bryson is in Europe, travelling from Hammerfest in Norway to Istanbul. Fluent in at least one language, a backpack on his shoulders and a tight fist on his wallet, Bryson is a hilarious guide. Strong language. 1992.