mentally handicapped

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mentally handicapped

Gump & Co.

1995
The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. has gone bust and Forrest is flat broke, sweeping floors in a New Orleans strip joint. As always in Forrest's easy-come-easy go life, a change in the weather is never far off.

We laugh, we love, we cry

children living with mental retardation
1989
Describes the home life, physiotherapy, and schooling of two mentally retarded sisters.

The winning spirit

1995
As the Silver Blades team up with skaters preparing for an event in the Special Olympics, Nikki Simon has difficulty connecting with her partner, a talented athlete with Down's syndrome.

Robodad

1990
Fourteen-year-old Shar struggles to live a normal life as her father's mental instability, caused by an aneurysm of the brain, makes him more and more difficult as a family member.

Dancing on dark water

1990
Fourteen-year old Shar struggles to live a normal life as her father's mental instability, caused by an aneurysm of the brain, makes him more and more difficult as a family member.

Chris Burke

actor
1995
Text and accompanying photographs examine the life of a young man with Down's syndrome who fulfilled his dream of becoming a television star.

The sound and the fury

1956
The members of a genteel Southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.

Survival guide for college students with ADD or LD

1994
Provides a survival guide for high school or college students with learning disorders and offers information on choosing the right college, working with counselors and professors, managing time and overcoming frustrations, and minimizing distractions.

Riding the bus with my sister

a true life journey
2002
Rachel Simon chronicles the experiences she had and shares the lessons she learned during the year she spent riding the bus which her mentally handicapped sister rides on each day.

Be good to Eddie Lee

1997
Although Christy considers him a pest, when Eddie Lee, a boy with Down Syndrome, follows her into the woods one day, and shares his understanding of nature with her, she learns a new appreciation for him.

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