商品簡介
Presents the author's story of how she worked through feelings of anger, sadness, and impatience to achieve success after realizing that being blind hindered her from being able to dig up dandelions from the yard like her normal-sighted brother.
作者簡介
Katherine Schneider has been blind since her premature birth in 1949 and has had fibromyalgia for over ten years. She was the first blind student to graduate from the Kalamazoo, Michigan public school system. Three years later she graduated with honors from Michigan State University with a BS in psychology. After receiving her PhD in clinical psychology from Purdue University, she worked at four universities, teaching, counseling, supervising, and administering university counseling services. She has won awards for her professional work from the Courage Center, and the University of Wisconsin System Regents, among others. In retirement she has published her memoir. To the Left of Inspiration. Adventures in Living With Disabilities, serves on community boards and gives access issues presentations to groups of all ages. She’s the originator of the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Awards for children’s books with disability content.
