For an OT assignment: Find an autobiography by someone who has faced a mental or physical challenge.
It's hard to find this kind of book in a regular library catalog. Write me personally if you want to know the details. marti.smith@alvernia.edu
In helping a student tonight, I went to amazon after not finding her first choice in the online catalog. http://www.amazon.com/
The student had asked if we had the book called "The Monster Within." We didn't, but I looked it up on amazon so that I could get some titles that might be on the same subject. Then she could look up some of the titles to see what we did have. Unfortunately, we don't have any autobiographies, as far as I could tell, that deal with eating disorders. Please let me know if you find any. I might have looked under more specific eating disorders, but I suggested that she fill out an Inter-Library Loan form for the book she really wanted.
http://www.alvernia.edu/library/resources.htm Look here for the ILL form.
Searching on amazon lead me to some good titles that I will suggest we order for the collection. In addition to "The Monster Within," a book by Marya Hornbacher called "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia" got good reviews. There was a list of others for those of you interested in the subject.
Now I'm going to do some more searching so we'll be able to help other students in the class. Please let me know if you have ideas for good books for this assignments. Other topics I'm going to explore include depression, blindness, earing loss, MS, lupus, missing limbs, and bipolar disorder.
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